Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: Iran and Pakistan may have announced going ahead with the IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project even without India, but Iran apparently is still doing its bit to ensure India eventually joins them.
In one of its GSPA (Gas Supply Purchase Agreement) proposals which was discussed during the recent meeting of foreign […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) Facing flak for President Asif Ali Zardari’s description of militants in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”, the Pakistan government today said there was no change in its position and it was committed to the Kashmiri people’s right of self-determination.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman said there had been no […]

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Source: Economic Times
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari may be keen on improving ties with India, but New Delhi is not sure whether he can deliver on his anti-terror pledge.
The joint statement at the end of talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Zardari in New York Wednesday re-committed Pakistan to honour its Jan 6, 2004 […]

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Source: The Acorn
Praveen Swami’s 2006 book India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The covert war in Kashmir, 1947-2004 is a book that you must read. Now, for reasons best known to the marketing department of its publishers, the international edition was priced out of reach of most people. Yet it is ‘most people’ who should […]

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Source: Bloomberg
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — India and Pakistan reached preliminary agreement on trade across the border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, witness to recent unrest on India’s side over a land transfer to a Hindu group and alleged cease-fire violations by Pakistan.
“The modalities of cross-LoC trade were finalized,” India’s Foreign Ministry said in […]

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War has come to Pakistan’s door step a long time ago. It is most unfortunate that even till yesterday, many of us denied this fact. Not any more. Not when War has pushed in to our house and is now in our living rooms, in our bedrooms, in our backyards, every where around us.
Pakistan is […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captains Ramiz Raja and Intikhab Alam have urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to review its rules to make sure countries do not pick and choose tours.
Their demand follows Australia’s decision on government advice to go ahead with their tour of India despite last week’s bomb blasts in New […]

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Source: NDTV
Indian batsman Virender Sehwag who is a resident of Delhi, has urged the Australians to go ahead with the tour.
“Delhi is not like Pakistan. For us it is back to normal routine today. There is no place in the world that is completely safe, not even the US. I think the Aussies should tour […]

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Source: Cricket Next
Mumbai: Pakistan’s dream of hosting the Champions Trophy next year is already turning sour. The BCCI has made it clear they won’t change their schedule to play in the tournament.
For the Pakistan Cricket Board, this is a frightening development. Their most trusted ally appears to have dumped them but the message from the […]

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We hear everyday by the media of Musharaf’s coalition partners that Pakistan is a terrorist state. Moreover, we were told that we would be sent back to the Stone Age at the time of Afghan war post 9/11. Nevertheless, we are warned by Uncle Sam day after day to sort things out or else they […]

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Source: Pakistan Link
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan are to sign an agreement next week for immediate declaration of arrests of each other’s nationals, early release of those crossing borders and the Line of Control (LoC) inadvertently, and consular access to all prisoners within three months of arrest. The agreement, to be signed on Wednesday during […]

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Source: Reuters Blogs
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is pushing for visa-free travel with India, and has gone to the extent of saying Islamabad might do it unilaterally if New Delhi is not prepared to go the distance.
As ideas go, visa-free travel in a globalised world isn’t anything remarkable. In the context of the tortured […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor 
Indian officials accuse Pakistan of violence in the disputed Himalayan border region. The allegation coincided with bombings in Jaipur.
India has accused Pakistan of firing across the militarized frontier that divides the disputed region of Kashmir – the first such allegation since the neighbors and rivals signed a cease-fire agreement in 2003.
Violations […]

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Source: Rediff News
India thwarted a series of late charges from Pakistan to notch a stunning 2-1 victory over their arch-rivals and stay in contention in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Thursday.
Indian drag-flickers Sandeep Singh (sixth minute) and Diwakar Ram (20th) lived up to expectations, scoring a goal apiece, while veteran Pakistani […]

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Source: Telegraph 
Four people have been questioned by police in connection with seven bomb blasts that killed 80 people and injured 200 in the crowded markets of Jaipur in India.
The suspects were detained as police sifted through mutilated bodies and the remains of buildings following a series of bombs, which are thought to have been planted […]

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Source: Daily Times
Gen Sinha says boundaries becoming irrelevant in wake of globalisation
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: India’s ties with Pakistan have taken a dramatic, favourable turn over the past few years and the situation is now conducive to resolving all outstanding issues between the two countries, Indian-held Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (r) SK Sinha said on […]

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Source: Daily Times
LAHORE: The newly appointed ad hoc committee of the Indian Hockey Federation is keen to hold home and away series between Pakistan and India after the Olympic Games in Beijing concludes. Last series between the two countries were held in 2006. A spokesman for the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) told Daily Times on […]

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Source: Business Standard
ADVERTISING: The 30-second commercial, created for consumers in Pakistan and West Asia, is being aired in India during the DLF IPL Twenty20 matches. Taking the ‘Jashn Mana Le’ tagline of Coke across the border, leading soft-drink company Coca-Cola India is using a 30-second Pakistani Coke television commercial in the ongoing Indian Premier League […]

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Source: Daily Times
*Expected to agree on 40 cents per mmbtu
By Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are set to announce the gas transit fee within a week for the transmission of gas to India under the billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.
The sources said that Pakistan and India are […]

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Source: AGI
(AGI) - ISLAMABAD, 28 April. - The ‘gas diplomacy’ which was proposed by Mahmud Ahmadinejad has started to bear bear fruits: Pakistan has given the go ahead to the building of a pipeline which will connect Iran and India. The Iranian president visited Islamabad to organize a deal for another pipeline along the Karakoum […]

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image courtesy of www.bhavane.com
In the world of cricket, getting ’smacked’, ‘hammered’, or ’slapped’ around for boundries is often heard of. What is NOT heard of that often is LITERALLY crossing over the ethical boundries and norms of professional behaviour to an extent that you ACTUALLY slap another player!
Indian’s hot-headed Harbhajan Singh, commonly known as ‘Turbanator’ has recently done just that. […]

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Up until yesterday, I had the feeling that Afridi was a lone ranger out in India having shouted out loud against the ‘unnecessary’ inclusion cheerleaders in the ongoing Indian Premier League and deeming it ‘distracting’. But not any more.
It seems like the Maharashtra government has indirectly joined the ‘Afridi-cause’ by condemning the ‘vulgar’ acts on […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan said that a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead anywhere in India is ready for wartime use after troops launched it on Monday during a field exercise.
Scientists and engineers had prepared the Hatf VI missile, also known as Shaheen II, for the exercise with a test-firing on Saturday.
Monday’s […]

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Source: The Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India’s oil minister Murli Deora was to hold talks in Pakistan this week on a seven-billion dollar transnational gas pipeline from Iran, a senior oil ministry official said Tuesday.
Deora’s three-day visit is the first contact between the rival South Asian states since the new coalition government took office […]

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Source: Meri News
WITH THE final date of death sentence of Indian prisoner in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, nearing on May 1, the Pak government has deferred his sentence again.
This seems to be the result of the efforts made by different quarters, especially the relatives of Singh, besides functionaries of the UPA government and senior leaders of […]

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