'The overall situation is unstable and any trigger like the capture/killing of Osama bin Laden or Musharraf extending his presidency could trigger events which could threaten the military's rule.'
The visiting Indian minister also met his Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera.
The launch will be a major feat in country's space history as no exercise on this scale has been attempted before.
He will also review the third round of the Composite Dialogue process, Pakistan Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told a media briefing.
'The government expects demand for electronic products to reach $400 billion by 2023-24. This would be a huge foreign exchange outflow, which may further widen our trade deficit with other nations. Hence, the government plans to push local electronics manufacturing to cut down on their import bill.'
The two leaders, while reviewing the progress of the ongoing peace process, are also believed to have discussed Siachen and Sir Creek.
India and Sri Lanka consider an open sky policy within the framework of the air traffic agreement of the SAARC nations.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan, a top Pakistani official has said.
Global networking company Cisco on Tuesday said it will expand to 16 more cities in the country and launch a new programme for small and medium business (SMB) specific partners.
The biggest success of Nawaz Sharif's visit to India is that it will lessen mistrust between the two countries, writes Amir Mateen from Islamabad.
Sarabjit's sister Dalbir said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi assured her that he will raise the issue with the Pakistan government during his visit.
India's public sector telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd plans to roll out triple play broadband services by January 2007, starting with the cities of Pune and Chennai.
CDMA mobile pioneer Qualcomm is banking on BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless), its open source application development platform for wireless devices, to deliver the next killer-app for the fast-growing data services market.
Cisco, the global leader in networking for Internet, on Tuesday announced their strategy to tap into India's fast growing small and medium businesses in auto component manufacturing, retail, textile and garment sectors.
Amid attacks by the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that the operation conducted by Indian Army on the terrorist hideouts in Myanmar.
Shaukat Aziz is a former banker who spent most of his professional life in the US before Musharraf, after seizing power in October 1999, handpicked him for the job of finance minister.
Let them act on these," he said, referring to New Delhi's demand that Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim be handed over and Lashker-e-Tayiba chief Hafiz Mohd Sayeed be arrested.
Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will represent Bangladesh at the swearing in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on May 26.
Because of the treaty, no big dams or power projects can be built by India on Jhelum, Indus or Chenab.
'It will be a long time before we will see the likes of Vajpayee again.'
Cisco Systems on Wednesday announced the appointment of Pramodh Menon as vice president-channels, India and SAARC.
Veteran Pakistani diplomat and current Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani is expected to be appointed the country's ambassador to the US ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington this month.
Natwar on a three-day visit to Bangladesh from Saturday
Black flags were also shown to the former MP as she came out of the airport.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh on Monday held a meeting with top Indian diplomats from SAARC and ASEAN countries to assess future policy options.
There would be 'no adverse impact' on Air-India and Indian Airlines if private carriers are allowed to operate to foreign destinations, said the civil aviation minister.
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