Re: Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as foreign minister
hahaha ... true tht!! ... chelo kuch postivity tu aaye is relationship men!! esp whn it was at sucha fragile state!!
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India, Pakistan see progress in resumed talks
**NEW DELHI: High-level Indian and Pakistani officials held talks Tuesday against the backdrop of a recent terror attack that killed 20 people in India’s financial capital.
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Just five months after the nations resumed bilateral discussions, both countries said they viewed the efforts so far as positive and the groundwork for further improvement.
Tuesday’s talks between both foreign secretaries lasted a few hours. The discussions were not detailed afterward but had been expected to focus on confidence-building measures including cross-border trade and visa protocols before the countries’ foreign ministers meet Wednesday.
”This is essentially a preparatory round,” Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told reporters before meeting Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in New Delhi. **”We had a very good meeting in Islamabad last month, and this has, in a sense, set the trend for our discussions here today.”
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The South Asian neighbors resumed talks in February after almost a two-year break following the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which 10 Pakistani gunmen killed 166 people.
In this month’s attack, suspicion has fallen on the Indian Mujahideen, an Islamic militant group linked to Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba that has claimed past attacks using similar explosives. Indian officials say they are still investigating the case, however, and it was not clear if India and Pakistan would be discussing it this week.
**”We have every reason to be satisfied with our joint endeavors for the cause of peace and stability and for good relations between our two countries,” **Bashir said.
Since February, Indian and Pakistani officials have discussed a range of issues including terrorism threats, cooperation on the 2008 Mumbai attacks investigation and the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which both sides claim in its entirety.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters Tuesday in Islamabad that the talks were the ”only way forward to improve ties with India.”
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His newly installed foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, said she hoped Wednesday’s meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna is productive. The two are expected to review progress so far made on issues including security, water sourcing and commerce while also looking for ways to further boost cooperation.
It is in the ”interest of Pakistan that the dialogue should be result-oriented,” Khar told reporters in Lahore, Pakistan, before boarding a flight to Delhi. ”We should be positive in our engagement, and we are.”**
India’s defense minister also said the two sides would hopefully ”be able to find a solution in the long run,” but would plan for contingencies.
”We will continue dialogue on the one side and on the other side, we will strengthen our national security apparatus,” Defense Minister A.K. Antony said.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/26/india-pakistan-see-progress-in-resumed-talks.html
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*5 main issues btw the 2 countries
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is a major source of friction. The two countries have long competed for influence there and Pakistan is deeply suspicious of a rise in India’s presence there since the fall of the Islamabad-backed Taliban government in 2001.
Pakistan accuses India of using Afghanistan as a base to create problems inside Pakistan, including backing separatists in Baluchistan province. India denies the accusations, saying its $2 billion aid is focused on development.
India is worried that negotiations with the Taliban and the US pullout would give Pakistan an upper hand in Afghanistan and offer anti-Indian militants a base.
This rivalry is complicating US-led efforts to end an intensifying Taliban insurgency and bring stability to Afghanistan almost 10 years after the Taliban were ousted.
**The US drawdown has also pushed Washington to work harder in getting India and Pakistan to normalise ties.
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***KASHMIR
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The divided, mostly Muslim Himalayan region of Kashmir is at the heart of hostility between the neighbours and was the cause of two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947. The third was over the founding of Bangladesh.
Separatists began an insurgency against Indian rule in 1989. Since then tens of thousands of people have been killed. India accuses Pakistan of supplying militants with arms and funds, while Islamabad says its role is limited to moral support.
A breakdown in talks could set off a repeat of last summer’s violent anti-government protests in India-controlled Kashmir that killed at least 110 people.
*********TRADE AND VISAS
*Both countries want to boost trade, particularly important for Pakistan’s weak economy, but Islamabad has yet to grant India a “most favoured nation” trade status over concerns its market will be flooded with cheap Indian goods.
There is hope that Wednesday’s talks will make progress on easing cross-border travel mostly in the Kashmir region.
*WATER
*The two countries disagree over use of the water flowing down rivers that rise in Indian Kashmir and run into the Indus river basin in Pakistan.
Pakistan says India is unfairly diverting water with the upstream construction of barrages and dams. India denies the charge.
No immediate progress is expected here.
*SIACHEN
*Indian and Pakistani forces have faced off in mountains above the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram range, the world’s highest battlefield, since 1984.
The two sides have been trying to find a solution that would allow them to withdraw troops, but India says it is unwilling to bring its forces down until Pakistan officially authenticates the positions they hold.
Pakistan has said it is willing to do so but on the condition that it is not a final endorsement of India’s claim over the glacier, one source of meltwater for Pakistan’s rivers.
- A meeting of defence secretaries of the two nations about the glacier in May was inconclusive and showed that even less controversial issues remain difficult to tackle.*
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/26/major-issues-between-old-rivals-india-and-pakistan.html
Re: Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as foreign minister
Wonder whats going to happen if she goes to Italy and is sitting in a room alone with PM Berlusconi.
Re: Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as foreign minister
typical jahal sooch!!
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She is definitely excellent choice for the FM. She is young intellegent and smart, better than** bozo emotional ex FM Qureshi. **
But that is also sometimes the problem with party-based democracy whereby in the name of party discipline one often has to tell blatant lies to the public..
Shah Mahmood Qureshi may not be a saint but he represented the voice of the common Pakistani when he took a moral stand on diplomatic immunity for Raymond Davis. His only crime was that his views were not in syn with those of his party leader Zardari who was in bed with US administrators at the time and only cared about saving his own backside
If anything I respect Qureshi for sticking to his principles
Re: Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as foreign minister
She is definitely excellent choice for the FM. She is young intellegent and smart, better than bozo emotional ex FM Qureshi. It will be a great achievement of PPP government if it succeeds to create atmosphere of friendly relation and mutual trust with India. She excelled in her first assignment.
That is a joke. Why do you worship these waderas. My view get rid of them. Why don't the PPP ever make someone from the middle classes FM
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Hermes Birkin, bag. at least $20,000.
Robert Cavalli sunglasses. At least $1,000.
And she is a so-called leader of a poor nation. Pays 7,500 rupees in tax? Thats less than $100.
She goes their and doesn't mention the word Kashmir according to
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Good to see her proving her loyalty to the foreigners, after all she is a British foreign minister
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Re: Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as foreign minister
itna purana thread. Last I saw her smiling at his chacha ji’s (Gilani) saraiki speech. Firdous (Badi khala) ke to paseene chhoot rahe the…
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didnt want to open a new thread for her... :)
read the news article
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Opening a new thread for the highness...