The defence minister also said that Pakistan 'has a habit of lying' when it comes to the Kashmir issue.
The US secretary of state said Washington was in "very close touch" with both Pakistan and India.
In a bid to boost economic and trade ties with energy rich Central Asia, India has agreed to actively participate in building trans-Afghanistan road and rail links between Uzbekistan's Termez to Iran's Chahbahar Port in the Gulf.
India had asserted that it reserved the right to launch a pre-emptive strike against Pakistan.
The BJP offers Saifuddin Soz 'one-way ticket' to Pakistan
US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday night for a general exchange of views ahead of a visit next week by a top Bush administration official to India.
Opposition members said the former finance minister had misled the Lok Sabha on the Calcutta Stock Exchange payment crisis and the UTI fiasco.
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Thursday discounted the 'junk' grading of the rupee by rating agencies like Moody's and S&P, saying it was based on a few 'weak' parameters rather than the overall macro-economic picture.\n\n\n\n
The external affairs minister said Pakistan should emulate the Sino-Indian model of not allowing one single issue to hold up progress in all other issues.
Ruptures in the opposition unity emerged barely a week after 17 parties joined hands to put up a joint candidate against the ruling National Democratic Alliance nominee for the July 17 presidential election.
'I would have expected that, once firmly ensconced in the director's chair by 2:15 am, the not-director of the CBI would have called for pen and paper and hand-written a few clean chits.' 'Clean chits over Rafale; clean chits to the PM's secretary in the coal bribery case; a clean chit to Hasmukh Adhia on whatever claim Subramanian Swamy has cooked up about him...' says Mihir Sharma.
'We are moving away from the Modi promise of less government,' says T N Ninan.
The Government on Friday managed to have its way in the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam when the panel approved the draft report giving a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram with a 16-11 vote in its favour.
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said he did not see any pattern in the actions against Indian IT professionals in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Netherlands
The external affairs minister said cross-border terrorism had to end to make the dialogue process meaningful.
There are about 50 Indians, including embassy staff, in Iraq, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said.
Chidambaram also hit out at senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, saying his performance as finance minister.
'Modi has given India its 'lost half-decade'. Elect him again and by 2024 it will be a lost decade'
He said Pakistan to take cue from the approach that India and China have adopted to resolve their differences.
We have sent a clear message that Pakistan cannot capture Jammu and Kashmir by cross-border terrorism, the external affairs minister said.
With Rahul showing a significant lead over Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi in opinion polls across southern India but lagging in the north, the Congress believes his contesting from the south will help galvanise cadres.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday pulled up the city government for dilly-dally on the issue of women's safety in the capital and said it was merely 'shuttling files' from one department to another without any result.
The external affairs minister, however, rejected the possibility of summit level talks soon.
Eight of the newly inducted ministers in the Union cabinet have criminal cases against them, a report released by election watchdog Non-Governmental Organisation's on Monday said.
The fiscal deficit totalled Rs 83,394 crore (Rs 833.94 billion) at the end of November, representing 61.5 per cent of the Budget estimate of Rs 1,35,524 crore (Rs 1.355.24 billion), according to data released on Tuesday.
Broadly speaking, the expansion of the Council of Ministers sent out three major political signals.
The groups clashed over the installation of a board and renaming of a chowk (intersection) in Phagwara, police said.
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