The nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan has figured during a Congressional hearing on the New START treaty between the United States and Russia.For the past two days, during hearings on the New START treaty held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lawmakers wanted to know from top US officials and experts about other nuclear weapon countries like India and Pakistan and how it can motivate the two countries to reduce their nuclear stockpile.
Asserting that India and Pakistan can unite through a common market, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday invited Islamabad to work jointly for developing a trade and economic block, "which could even be a matter of envy for blocks like Europe
Amid speculation over the fate of the proposed India-Pakistan series, IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla today said there are "no immediate chances" of revival of cricketing ties between the two countries.
While 26 trucks crossed over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, 13 from there reached the Indian side.
India and Pakistan to renew football rivalry after five years, clubbed in same group in next month's SAFF Cup
There is a lot that the SAARC can do if only its two biggest countries, India and Pakistan, leave their disputes back home. Sheela Bhatt gauges the mood at the opening day of the regional summit in Thimphu, Bhutan.
India and Pakistan blame each other for their internal security problems because of some 'third interest', Pakistani minister Firdous Ashiq Awan suggested on Wednesday, and said the two countries should sit together to address 'communication gaps and trust deficit'. "Whatever happens in Balochistan, our people blame India and similarly whatever happens here in India, people blame Pakistan. There is some third conspiracy also and we have to pinpoint that," she said.
An Indo-Pak team could take on a Rest of the World team in four one-day matches this September or January 2005.
At the end of the talks with Salman Bashir, Pakistani Foreign Secretary in New Delhi on Thursday, Nirupama Rao, the Indian counterpart, projected the initiative taken by India in proposing the meeting between the two countries as a prelude to a wider dialogue at different levels on various contentious issues -- though not necessarily in the form of a reversion to the composite dialogue process to which Pakistan continues to be attached.
Indo-Pakistan talks can be useful only if both the countries agreed over an agenda for dialogues in future, says Dr. Hasan Askari Rizvi, a top defense analyst in Pakistan.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir will be meeting at New Delhi on February 25,2010, under a face-saving formula which would enable both the governments to claim that the respective stand taken by them after the 26/11 terrorist strike in Mumbai stands vindicated by this meeting.
'It was international diplomacy led by the US that went to the task of talking to these two nations,' he said.
The competition for the worst or most perilous 10 years has always been between the 1960s and the 1980s, points out Shekhar Gupta.
The cash-strapped Pakistan Cricket Board has requested the ICC's special task force to arrange a series of matches for its national team against India and a World XI at neutral venues to raise much needed funds.
Police had to use force to control cricket fans as thousands of people turned up to buy tickets on Sunday for the first one-day international between Pakistan and India.
The Sri Lankan has been appointed match referee for the five one-day internationals and three Tests between Pakistan and India.
Acknowledging that India is a big player in the region, a top US military leader has said that the relationship between India and Pakistan is critical for the stability in the region.
BSF officials successfully conducted Operation Alert in Barmer during which bombs dating back to 1965 were discovered during an excavation.
'It seems India wants to gain time, during which it would... employ every possible resource to crush the freedom struggle in the occupied territory,' Syed Salahuddin said.
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service suspended over arrest of Pakistani truck driver carrying contraband.
India and Pakistan, says Praful Bidwai, have to get out of the deeply ingrained habit of regarding their Hot-Cold War as something normal and inevitable, and move towards demilitarising their borders.
The Indian side has clearly told Pakistan it would not proceed any further on the matter.
The Bachchan Baritone just got bigger.
Will cricket strengthen Indo-Pak relations?
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said relations between Pakistan and India cannot be improved without the resolution of the Kashmir issue, which is holding up peace in South Asia.
Seeking resumption of the composite dialogue process with India, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said such a move is in the best interest of the region.
A dodgy knee has kept Irfan Pathan out of action and the all-rounder is really disappointed that he won't be a part of the India-Pakistan limited overs series.
Maj Gen Lodin succeeds Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi of Ghana, who completes his two-year assignment as chief military observer and head of mission for the UNMOGIP on July 2.
ICC chief Ehsan Mani urged the neighbours to desist from game for "political purpose".
Given the current geo-political situation in South Asia, a top Barack Obama administration official on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan will figure in talks when United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Indian leaders, during her upcoming visit to India. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake appreciated the recent meetings between the leaders of India and Pakistan and identified it as a positive development.
