Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is making all possible efforts to improve India-Pakistan relations and the current government is actively pursuing a policy that will lead to a qualitative improvem

Terming the recent talks between India and Pakistan as encouraging, a top Pentagon official has expressed hope that the discussions will continue.

Voicing “a great sense of confidence, optimism and determination,” India and Pakistan on Thursday opened their two-day foreign secretary-level talks here and discussed the issue of peace and security, including confidence-building measures on Kashmir.

India will raise the issue of terror links of Pakistan’s ISI, as has been revealed by Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley during the Chicago trial, when the foreign secretaries of the two countries will meet later this week in Islamabad.

Marking their second meeting in four months, foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold two-day talks in Islamabad from June 23 during which the Indian side is expected to press for effective action against those behind the 26/11 attacks, including elements in the ISI.

Top US lawmakers and experts have asked Pakistan to come out of its India-centric mindset which they argued is nothing but destructive for it, a day after Islamabad resorted to rhetoric against New Delhi.

Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on the sidelines of an upcoming Saarc council of ministers meeting in Bhutan to explore ways to take forward the stalled peace process between the t

US President Barack Obama will quietly encourage India to cool tensions with Pakistan and not push New Delhi to change its strategy towards its neighbour, a major US daily reported today.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has asked India and Pakistan to make renewed efforts to address outstanding issues, including Kashmir, on the basis of patience, perseverance and compromise.

Thousands of secret US military records leaked by a whistleblower site reveal that Pakistan’s spy service the ISI was actually aiding the Afghan insurgency with a wing
operating against Afghanistan and India given broad functional autonomy.