Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik have pledged to take more steps to improve bilateral relations. The two leaders, who are in Maldives to attend the South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation home/interior ministers' meeting, met on Tuesday evening and discussed a wide range of issues.
With Sushil Kumar Shinde as the new home minister, Rehman Malik probably felt he could force his way into India and get away with saying the sort of things he said on Indian soil without any fear of being put in his place, says Sushant Sareen
The BCCI, on Tuesday, shot down BJP's demand of cancelling the Indo-Pak limited-overs cricket series in the wake of visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik "insulting" India, insisting that the matches would be held as scheduled.
Rejecting Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for suspending talks with Pakistan, Congress said it is in favour of a composite dialogue as having any "hostile" attitude is not a solution.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik was "a bit surprised" when the issue of torture of Kargil hero Capt Saurabh Kalia was raised by India, Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir said on Tuesday, insisting that Islamabad is yet to take a position on the matter.
The claim by Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik -- that terror operative Abu Jundal is an agent of the Intelligence Bureau -- has come in for ridicule by the agency. An officer of the IB told rediff.com that the claim by the Pakistan minister was "utter rubbish".
Facing criticism over his remarks on Babri mosque issue, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said he never tried to equate the demolition of the shrine with 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday raised the issue of pending trial against perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks based in Pakistan with the visiting Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Notwithstanding pressure from India, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday gave no indication of action being taken against 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, saying there was no credible evidence to arrest him.
India will press for handing over of Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed during the visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik beginning December 14.
India and Pakistan on Saturday signed the much-awaited liberalised visa agreement, introducing for the first time group tourist and pilgrim visas, separate visas for businessmen and visa on arrival for those over 65 years of age. The new pact, signed between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, replaces a 38-year-old restrictive visa agreement and will pave the way for time-bound visa approval.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has denied allegations about his involvement in the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, saying President Asif Ali Zardari knows who killed her. Reacting to remarks made by Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday during a briefing on the assassination in the Sindh Assembly, Musharraf told TV news channels that the security of political leaders was the responsibility of provincial governments and not the federal government.
Despite India claiming to have credible evidence against the inflammatory content spreading hatred against the people from northeast, Pakistan is in a denial mode. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik assures to take action only after getting evidence from India.
The terrorists who attacked a key Pakistan Air Force base had been trained in the Waziristan tribal region where plans for the raid could be traced, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
The Pakistani police are on the look out for two youths suspected of shooting 15-year-old education activist Malala Yousufzai, and the prime suspect who drove them to the scene, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
Controversial Pakistani-American Mansoor Ijaz, who has been summoned to appear before a Supreme Court-appointed panel probing the memo scandal, on Saturday accused the Pakistan government of preventing him from testifying in Islamabad next week.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Pakistani authorities would lift a ban on YouTube within 24 hours, over three months after the popular website was blocked so that people could not access clips from an anti-Islam film.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik escaped unhurt today when a helicopter he was travelling in made an emergency landing after developing technical problems in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities have foiled a plot to attack parliament during President Asif Ali Zardari's address to a joint sitting of the two houses and arrested several terrorists and an employee of the foreign ministry, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. The terrorists had planned to attack Parliament when Zardari was addressing a joint session of the National Assembly and Senate on March 17, Malik said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said it was not surprised by the comments of Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on alleged 26/11 handler Abu Jundal, saying Islamabad is 'habitually in denial mode' and India should follow a policy of first veryfying its claims and then trusting them.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's arrived in New Delhi on Friday on a three-day visit to the country. His arrival delayed by four hours after he took a Pakistan Air Force plane in a change of plans that required fresh clearance from the Indian side.
Slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Interior Minister Rehman Malik were among those who were awarded the country's highest honour on Pakistan Day on Friday. Taseer, who was gunned down by a policeman last year for his calls for reforming the controversial blasphemy law, was awarded the Nishan-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest civilian award. The award was received by his widow Aamna Taseer.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik will pay a three-day visit to India from December 14 to operationalise the liberalised visa agreement between the two countries.
The visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik to India, for operationalisation of liberalised visa agreement between the two countries, has been deferred and he is likely to arrive in New Delhi on December 14.
India and Pakistan signalled a desire beyond the rancour of the past by inking a pact for a liberalised visa regime though several core issues of both countries had not been addressed by the peace process that resumed last year, the Pakistani media said on Sunday.
Claudio Ranieri has received an honour from the Italian president after the soccer manager led rank outsiders Leicester City to the top of the English Premier League.
Rehman Malik has been appointed as an advisor on interior affairs to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, a day after Pakistan Supreme Court suspended former interior minister's membership of Parliament on the grounds of dual nationality.
Former Pakistan interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and his son had a narrow escape on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near their motorcade in northwest Pakistan, killing one person and injuring seven others, officials said. The attacker targeted Sherpao's motorcade as the latter was travelling to Peshawar after addressing a rally in Charsadda district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The bomber detonated his explosive vest.
In a jolt to Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the supreme court on Monday suspended him from the membership of parliament on the ground that he had failed to provide proof of renouncing his British citizenship, raising questions over his continuance as a minister.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Islamabad has finalised work on a liberal visa regime with New Delhi, and that he expected it to be signed during the upcoming visit of Foreign Minister SM Krishna.
Four women were condemned to death by a tribal jirga or council for dancing and singing with men at a wedding in northern Pakistan have been killed, TV news channels in Islamabad have reported.
Egypt's state prosecutor will appeal against the ruling in Hosni Mubarak's trial, which acquitted him and his two sons on corruption charges, as thousands of enraged protesters hit the streets across the country on Sunday against the "light" sentence given to the ousted President.
Within days of a resolution introduced in the United States Congress seeking the right to self-determination for Balochistan, Pakistan has offered amnesty to Baloch nationalist leaders in exile, announcing that cases against them would be closed.
Pakistan on Friday said an agreement on a new liberalised visa regime with India will not be inked during the ongoing home secretary-level talks in Islamabad, suggesting that the pact should be concluded at the political level.
Pakistan's supreme court on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to Interior Minister Rehman Malik for constituting a new investigating team to probe the alleged corruption in a state-run steel company without seeking its consent.
Ailing virologist Khalil Chishti, detained in Rajasthan for nearly two decades on a charge of involvement in a murder, arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday after being given special permission by India's Supreme Court to return home to meet his family.
The special jet will fly the 82-year-old Chishti from New Delhi to Pakistan, where he will be received on his arrival by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, official sources said.
Immigration authorities on Friday stopped 130 Pakistani Hindus from crossing over to India at the Wagah land border following a controversy over reports of an exodus of the minority community from the Sindh province.
A group of some 250 Pakistani Hindus were on Friday allowed to cross over to India for a pilgrimage after being detained at the Wagah land border crossing due to a controversy over reports that they planned to migrate to the neighbouring country.
The Pakistani judicial panel probing the memo scandal on Tuesday gave the controversial American businessman Mansoor Ijaz a final opportunity to depose before it on February 9 after the star witness failed to appear for the second time citing security concerns.
