US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had described India as a “self-appointed front-runner” for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), according to classified documents released by website WikiLeaks on Monday. About a quarter-million cables, many of them classified, regarding documents on US foreign policy have been leaked that document correspondence between various US embassies and consulates.

A day after the US-India spat over David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayeeba (LeT) operative, senior government officials in New Delhi on Thursday once again reiterated that Washington was aware of Headley’s activities and allowed him repeated visits to India, Pakistan and back to US. Indian government officials also claimed that this could not have happened without the US support. However, Union home secretary G.K. Pillai on Thursday maintained that counter-

US President Barack Obama will not make a halt in Pakistan during his 10-day visit to India and East and Southeast Asia next month, the White House announced late on Wednesday.