With New Delhi hoping Bush will visit India exclusively, the US President said he will visit India and Pakistan.
As Aziz's press conference was around the same time, Pakistani officials sought postponement of her appearance in the programme called An Interview With Mukhtar Mai: The Bravest Women On Earth in UN television studio.
Pakistan Friday said it plans to generate 8,800 MW of nuclear power by 2030 and maintained that its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes.
Premier Wen Jiabao, however, warned visiting Pakistani Prime Minister that terrorism and extremism were directly endangering the security of both China and Pakistan, as well as regional peace and stability.
Reiterating the desire for establishing peace and stability in the region, Aziz said Pakistan was seeking resolution of all differences with India.
It is a performance with no flaws. Every word is well chosen, there is no humming and hawing, and difficult questions are effortlessly sidestepped by taking the answer in another direction and dwelling at length on the subject not asked.
The prime minister has accepted the invitation. The dates will be finalised through diplomatic channels.
India on Wednesday said the $4.16 billion Iran-India gas pipeline passing through Pakistan will have to be considered as a part of wider economic and trade cooperation between New Delhi and Islamabad.
Among them are Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Shabir Ahmed Shah.
Ahead of Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's visit to New Delhi later this month, India has formally asked Pakistan to remove diesel from its negative list and permit its imports from Gujarat and Haryana through land and sea routes. \n
Ahead of the meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pakistan has assured Pakistan occupied Kashmir leaders that it would not change its stance on the Kashmir issue.\n
Pakistan to intensify intelligence-sharing with UK
Corporate giant Tatas announced on Wednesday that it would explore investment opportunities in Pakistan in areas like automobiles, hotels and software, saying a synergy between the neighbouring countries would be beneficial for the region.\n\n
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will visit Pakistan on March 15 and 16 to attend the SAARC Energy Ministers' meeting and hold talks with Pakistan on the India-Iran trans-national gas pipeline.
Learning perhaps from the Kargil debacle, Musharraf tried hard to evolve as a statesman in his dealings with India, recalls Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
India is likely to discuss the fate of the proposed $4.16 billion Iran-India gas pipeline during talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz next week.
Pakistan will achieve an 8.3 per cent growth rate, the highest GDP rate in its history, this year which will place the country in the top five fastest growing economies of Asia, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said.
Malik Javed, an employee of the Pakistan embassy in Baghdad, was kidnapped April 9 people who claimed to be from the Omar bin Khattab group.
But the external affairs minister also warned against expecting miracles during the visit of the Pakistan Prime Minister.
Khan, 69, was not present in the lower house at the time of voting. His party lawmakers staged a walkout.
The Islamabad high court on Monday barred cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's planned lockdown of the capital this week and ordered it to hold a sit-in at the designated place in the Pakistani capital instead, as authorities arrested at least 1,500 party activists in a crackdown.
In a petition filed in the Islamabad high court, he requested the court to refer the matter to the Inter Services Intelligence for a thorough probe, Dawn reported.
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday signed death warrants of six terrorist, whose execution was pending.
PEMRA will only allow airtime to Indian content if India allows airtime to Pakistani content.
The United States and the United Kingdom have asked Pakistan to hand over Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, to India to improve bilateral ties or to them for his 'independent trial'.
A special court trying embattled former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf ordered the government to include former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, a former law minister and a chief justice as alleged co-conspirators in the high treason case slapped on him.
Bugti, former chief minister of Balochistan and head of his tribe, was killed in 2006 in a military operation ordered by Musharraf who was president and army chief at the time.
Pakistani authorities claimed to have foiled a plot to target Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by busting a terror network planning to launch suicide attack on his residence in Raiwind on the outskirts of Lahore.
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