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NEW DELHI - The leaders of India and Afghanistan held talks on Thursday in New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a joint statement that did not mention Pakistan directly but said they discussed "the common threat faced by both their societies from terrorism."
They "agreed that the strategic partnership between India and Afghanistan is a positive factor for peace and stability in the region," the statement said. Analysts say

LAHORE - Former foreign minister and Chairman of Steering Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Like-Minded Group, Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri left for New Delhi on Wednesday to attend an international symposium on Indo-Pak relations. According to details, Kasuri, who is known as an expert on foreign affairs, will attend a seminar titled 'Evolution of Pakistan-India relations in first decade of the 21st Century'.
The Indian Council of World Affairs especially invited

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders have declared the Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa's announcement of meeting with Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif, a beginning of new era of political reconciliation in Punjab.
They said that PPP wanted to avoid politics of confrontation so that government could concentrate on the resolution of masses problems. Former Minister for Information and Central leaders of PPP Khalid Ahmed Khan Kharal has said the PPP

ISLAMABAD - The understanding reached between the PPP and the PML-N over the implementation of a national agenda has frustrated the PML-Q unification bloc's strategy to revolt against the Chaudhrys, as the group is disappointed with the reconciliatory move by the federal and provincial governments. Changing its position, the PML-Q unification bloc in the Punjab has decided to postpone their plan to form a separate parliamentary group in the provincial assembly, adopting a cautious

NEW DELHI - Asking Pakistan to fulfill its assurances of disbanding the terror infrastructure on its soil, India Tuesday said it was willing to go "more than half the way" to hold peace talks with the neighbour but terrorism could "not be shoved" under the carpet. External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, during an interaction with visiting journalists from eastern European countries, said India was "looking forward" to Pakistan addressing its core concern regarding terrorism and

TOKYO - Japan should discuss a free trade deal with China while improving diplomatic ties through ministerial exchanges, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said in an interview aired Friday.
"I believe it is important to make efforts on the governmental level so that Japan and China will discuss a free trade agreement and other things, expand economic and trade ties and build win-win relations," Maehara told NHK.
Japan's relations with China plunged to the lowest point in years

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday agreed to extend their friendly relations in the larger interest of the country.
PML-Q chief visited Khan on Saturday for a meeting that lasted for more than two hours. Talking to reporters after the meeting Shujaat said the PML-Q could form an alliance with the PTI on issues of national interests. Praising the PTI chairman, Shujaat said even Khan's

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will pay an official two-day visit to Oman to seek greater investment and to enhance trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
Prime Minister Gilani, during his visit beginning tomorrow, will have an audience with Sultan Qaboos bin Al-Said and will hold talks with the Omani leadership. Talks will primarily be focussed at trade and investment. Situation in the region, Middle East with particular focus on Iraq,

ISTANBUL: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that the democratic government of Pakistan had given new impetus to its relations with Kyrgyzstan and called for more work together to improve the working and implementation of the quadripartite Agreement on Transit Traffic.
The president was talking to Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva who called on him here on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) meeting. President Zardari said that

ANKARA - US ties with Turkey are "more important than ever" despite differences over Iran, President Barack Obama said, also urging Ankara to repair ties with Israel, in an interview published on Sunday.
"Our shared interests, our shared values... undergird our relationship even when we disagree," Obama said in written response to questions by Turkey's mass-selling Hurriyet newspaper. "Given the increasingly complex challenges the world faces, I believe that US-Turkish

ISLAMABAD - The government is keen to take the multifaceted Sino-Pak ties to new heights as the friendship between the two countries has matured into a comprehensive strategic partnership, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday.
"Strengthening and enhancing cooperation with China in all fields has been and still is one of the key principles of Pakistan's foreign policy," Zardari said at the delegation-level talks between Pakistan and China led by the president and Chinese

ISTANBUL: The commissioning of the High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) will enable the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey to take important decisions to boost ties in all areas, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday.
Gilani said the two governments had committed to ensuring practical implementation of the 17 memorandums of understanding signed during his three-day visit. After addressing the Turkish business community, Gilani said the Pak-Turkey ties were unique in

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said on Sunday that he hoped Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's Kabul visit would help enhance Pak-Afghan economic ties.
Basit said the main objective of Gilani's visit was to increase mutual trust, as it was in the benefit of both countries. He said a lot of progress was made in trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan during the last two years, which had raised the masses' expectations of cordial and friendly bilateral

LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Saturday said that he had personal relations with Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif.
Addressing a farewell ceremony given in his honour by Punjab's session judges and additional session judges at the library of the Lahore High Court and attended by newly-appointed Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Sharif said, "Relations with the Punjab chief justice played a big role in getting the salaries of

'Pak-US ties transactional, based on mutual mistrust'
Wajid Ali Syed
WASHINGTON: The relations between the US and Pakistan have for too long been transactional in nature while at the same time based on mutual mistrust, the former American envoy to Islamabad said in a cable to Washington in 2009.
The document was published Sunday by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Former ambassador Anne Patterson's communique was sent ahead of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood

KARACHI: The decision by the Civil Aviation Authority of impounding 16 Russian aircraft including three helicopters is likely to upset Pakistan's diplomatic relations with the Central Asian Republics (CARs) as most of the aircrafts belong to CAR, while this act may also affect the relief operations in the flooded areas.
Total eight aircrafts including three helicopters was impounded at the Jinnah International Airport Karachi, two at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore,

LAHORE: Cordial ties between India and Pakistan are integral to the strength of South Asia as a whole and the promotion of economic development and trade. However, greater effort must be placed upon tackling disputes which have been at the root of the region's poor economic performance for decades.
This was stated by SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) former President Tariq Sayeed at the "Conference on Indo-Pakistan Economic Cooperation: Challenges and Prospects" held