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As the global age takes its course, Pakistan has an unparallel opportunity to estabelish its identity as a pluralist state

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Location: Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Thursday, June 29, 2006

South Asia

Hot pursuit not to be allowed, warns FO
ISLAMABAD, July 24: Islamabad on Monday sternly warned New Delhi against any hot pursuit inside Pakistan or in Azad Kashmir and declared that the only option the two countries had was to pursue the peace process....
Karzai’s authority eroding fast
KABUL: The grumbling men gathered in Maiwand, a southern town of slouching shops, greasy truck stops and alarming violence. Days earlier a roadside bomb killed four police, they said....
-The Rice mission
The politics of gas pipelines
Russia’s backing for IPI project is of significance not just from the technological and economic points of view. It has wider political and strategic implications for international relations, especially in Central and South Asia.
Ties with Russia must not be Indo-centric: Musharraf sees mutuality of interest
ISLAMABAD, June 7: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday saw a broad-based mutuality of interest to promote Pakistan-Russia relations which he emphasised should be developed on bilateral basis and not through an Indo-centric approach....
India mulls over ‘special status’ for held Kashmir
SRINAGAR, May 25: Despite boycott by the Hurriyat leaders, India’s prime minister was upbeat on Thursday after talks in held Kashmir, making a rare acknowledgment of human rights violations and announcin.....
Accord with Iran on border trade: Gas price formula being worked out: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Thursday that Pakistan and Iran had agreed to open border markets to promote bilateral and regional trade....
Aziz sees no ‘evil’ in Indo-US accords
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that there was no cause for alarm over India’s nuclear cooperation and defence deals with the United States....
India may stay away from Iran pipeline
ISLAMABAD, April 27: India is expected to formally join $5billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan gas pipeline by mid May and stay away from Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline in the wake of its civil-nuclear energy pact with the United States....
-Pakistan may start laying its part of IPI

US plans Asian power pipeline
Washington, April 27 (AFP): The US wants to spearhead a mammoth project transmitting electricity from Central Asia across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India, a senior state department official said.

Pakistan to buy scaled-down package of F-16s: officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pakistan has agreed to purchase a scaled-down package of American F-16 fighters after foregoing a larger purchase to finance relief efforts in last year's earthquake, officials said.

People’s victory in Nepal
NEPALESE King Gyanendra’s announcement on Monday night that he will reinstate parliament has been greeted with jubilation by the people who see his capitulation as a triumph for them. A massive protest planned for Tuesday turned into a victory rally as the seven-party alliance spearheading the demonstrations called off the march.
-The last gasp of a monarch?

Nepal Reinstates Lower House of Parliament
Nepal's embattled king defused weeks of mass protests that have pushed this Himalayan country near the brink of anarchy, reinstating the lower house of parliament on Monday as his opponents had demanded.

-Protest turns to party as Nepal king backs down
-Gyanendra -- Nepal's sullen and unloved king
Pakistan and SCO
President Musharraf during his visit to China expressed Pakistan's desire to be granted full membership into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) from its present observer status. In fact, Pakistan was amongst the first countries to seek association with the SCO and lodged an application for membership of this nascent organisation almost five years ago. However the application was kept under consideration. In fact, both Pakistan and India have simultaneously been vying to gain admission into the SCO since 2000 -- and trying to block each other's entry.
US ties with India and Pakistan on divergent paths
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.

Pakistan ready for AJK pullout if India reciprocates’
ISLAMABAD, March 10: Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri on Friday said Pakistan was ready to withdraw troops from Azad Kashmir provided India also reciprocated and withdrew troops from held Kashmir.
Pak arms set to enter world market, Senate told
ISLAMABAD (March 10): High-tech weapon and defence equipment from Pakistan were now set to enter the world market, Standing Committee Chairman Nisar Memon told the Senate on Friday.
Musharraf renews demilitarisation, autonomy proposals
ISLAMABAD, March 10: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Friday Pakistan’s proposals for demilitarisation and self-governance offered a practical solution to the Kashmir dispute....
‘US not to recognise India as N-power’
WASHINGTON, March 9: The White House has rejected the suggestion that by signing a nuclear deal in New Delhi last week, President Bush has moved closer to recognising India as a nuclear power....
‘Curbs against Pakistan proved costly’
WASHINGTON (March 09): US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday the United States "lost a generation of relationships" with the Indonesian and Pakistani militaries because of sanctions that were imposed against both over the years.
US-India sign agreement on nuclear deal
A full transcript of the joint US-India statement, as released by the office of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday after hosting talks with President George Bush.
- NPT Text

Nuclear battle lines drawn
By Ashish Kumar Sen
WASHINGTON - The ink had barely dried on a document laying out ambitious civil nuclear cooperation between the United States and India when Washington's entrenched non-proliferation lobby raised its head.

Indo-US nuke deal: Pakistan has its options, says Musharraf
Outlook India - Mar 02: Gearing up to ask President George Bush to extend the India-US civilian nuclear technology deal to Pakistan as well, President Pervez Musharraf today said Washington concluded such a deal with New Delhi in its own interest and Islamabad has its own options even if Pakistan failed to get such an agreement for itself
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-Islamabad expects similar concessions

China hopes Indo-US nuke deal will meet NPT requirements
Outlook India - Mar 02: China today reacted cautiously to the historic Indo-US nuclear deal, hoping that it would meet the global non-proliferation regime's parameters while seeking early accession by "non-signatory" nations to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to ensure regional and global peace and stability.


Congress divided, but IAEA backs US-India deal
New Kerala - Mar 02 5:46 PMEla Dutt, Washington: The US Congress was divided on the groundbreaking India-US nuclear cooperation agreement finalised Thursday by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, even as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came out in support of the deal.


Australia blocks uranium sales to India until it signs NPT
Khaleej Times - 11 minutes agoSYDNEY, Australia - Australia will not sell uranium to India until the country signs the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Friday.