Pakistan had announced the release of 151 fishermen on the eve of Modi's swearing-in. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is among the heads of state and government of SAARC nations attending the ceremony held in Delhi.
India's new High Commissioner to Pakistan, T C A Raghavan, on Monday said measures should be taken to address the menace of terrorism.
The Indian tennis federation on Saturday confirmed that it will approach world governing body ITF, seeking a neutral venue for the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi also claimed that Azhar is unwell to the extent that he cannot leave his house.
Singh along with a team of industrialists and senior functionaries of the state would lay the foundation stone of the Nankana Sahib-Wagah Highway on March 16.
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Fourteen Pakistani fishermen, lodged in the central prison in Thiruvananthapuram after being taken into custody by the Indian Navy six months back for crossing into the Indian waters near Lakshadweep Islands, have been sent back to their country.
The exchange of gifts between the forces is a long-standing tradition to mark their respective anniversaries of independence.
As Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay continues to battle for life in the PGIMER in Chandigarh, his family on Tuesday said he should be sent back to his country along with them.
Two members of the family of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who is in deep coma at a Chandigarh hospital after being attacked in a Jammu jail, arrived in Amritsar on Tuesday via the Wagah-Attari border.
The Congress leader tweeted his request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Pakistan PM Imran Khan's announcement that the IAF pilot would be released on March 1.
Sarabjit Singh, currently in coma in a hospital in Lahore following a brutal assault, should be sent to India for better treatment, his wife on Sunday said in an emotional appeal to Pakistani authorities.
'They are aware that they have been unable to bring about any change in the security situation in Kashmir and have failed to internationalise the Kashmir issue.'
Pakistan on Friday released 45 Indian prisoners as a gesture of goodwill though confusion surrounded the move as Indian authorities in New Delhi were not informed about it.
The Pakistan government on Friday freed eleven Indian nationals as they were repatriated to India through the land transit route of Attari/Wagah border.
Pakistani authorities will hand over 11 Indian prisoners, including seven fishermen, to Indian authorities at the Wagah land border crossing on Friday, officials said on Thursday.
The family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is in coma after being brutally attacked in a Lahore jail, on Sunday crossed over to Pakistan through the border here to see him and appealed to the authorities there to allow him to come to India for treatment.
'Terrorists have targeted US diplomats and diplomatic facilities in the past, and information suggests they continue to do so'
Country watchers in both India and Pakistan recognise the swampy terrain of the Slough of Despond ahead. It's no-visa season again
The bus service was first started in February 1999 but suspended after the 2001 Parliament attack. It was restarted in July 2003.
The Pakistan government has missed a self-imposed deadline for allowing all tradable items through land routes from India because of stiff resistance from "land-owning elite" in the federal cabinet, according to a media report on Sunday.
A delegation of leading Pakistan parliamentarians and traders on Wednesday left for a four-day visit to India to promote peace and trade between the two countries.
A Sports Ministry source said that 'the minister (Kiren Rijiju) is set to start an inquiry.'
Pakistan on Friday released 40 Indian prisoners, including fishermen, from a jail in karachi, officials said.
Journalist Amir Mateen travelled to India to cover the India-Pakistan parliamentary dialogue hosted jointly by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Jinnah Institute. This is the first part of his travelogue on India
Pakistan on Monday freed 48 Indian fishermen from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi as a goodwill gesture and sent them to the Wagah land border crossing to be repatriated to India.
'On the Kashmir and Pakistan question, it is startling that Vajpayee and Advani did more than anybody in Indian history.'
The visa-on-arrival facility at the Attari-Wagah check post to Pakistani nationals over 65 years of age will begin from January 15, but they would not be able to stay in Punjab, Kerala and Jammu & Kashmir.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will head a high-level delegation of ministers and officials to Pakistan next month to tell the "turnaround" story of the state there.
Six people including two women were arrested and eleven pistols seized from their possession on their return from Pakistan on the Samjhauta Express at the Attari Railway station on Thursday.
Thirty-three Indian nationals who were languishing in Pakistani jails were released by the government there as a mark of goodwill gesture.
Of the 315 Indian fishermen released by Pakistan from a prison in Karachi, 215 reached in Attari in Punjab on Thursday, officials said.
Pakistan will release 315 Indian fishermen at the Wagah land border crossing on Thursday, official sources said on Tuesday.
'Trade cannot take place when there is no trust.'
India must break out of this strategic triangulation between China and Pakistan. We need to settle our issues with one of the two, notes Shekhar Gupta.
The road ahead will be long and winding and much resistance can be expected from the high-flying 'hawks' in our skies. But that should not deter the policymakers from planning a road map with the 'big picture' in mind, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Pakistani Hindus, who are currently on a pilgrimage to India, are unclear about their stay here following the incertitude regarding their fate in Pakistan. In the wake of the recent acts of violence against the Hindu community in Pakistan, the pilgrims have planned to visit India and then take the final decision about their stay.
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