Abdul Basit
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India-Pakistan cricket matches from December: Pakistan envoy
Cricket | Mar 17, 2015, 09:33 PM ISTKolkata: India and Pakistan are set to resume bilateral cricketing ties in December this year, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit said here Tuesday."Pakistan and Indian cricket teams, would be playing a bilateral series
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Basit arrives in Kolkata, to hold talks with Mamata
India | Mar 17, 2015, 04:36 PM ISTKolkata: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit arrived here today and is scheduled to call on state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tomorrow to discuss ways for augmenting relations between West Bengal and the four provinces in
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Basit arrives in Kolkata, to hold talks with Mamata
National | Mar 17, 2015, 04:34 PM ISTKolkata: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit arrived here today and is scheduled to call on state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tomorrow to discuss ways for augmenting relations between West Bengal and the four provinces in
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Pak envoy meets Hurriyat leader Geelani, discusses Kashmir, Jaishankar's visit to Islamabad
India | Mar 09, 2015, 09:03 PM ISTNew Delhi: Abdul Basit, Pakistan High Commissioner to India, met Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday and reportedly briefed him about the issues discussed between India and Pakistan during Foreign Secretary S
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Pakistan looking to revive bilateral talks, Basit to meet Foreign Secretary Jaishankar
India | Feb 07, 2015, 11:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: Abdul Basit, Pakistan High Commissioner is looking to revive the possibilities of relaunching the Indo-Pak bilateral talks with India's newly appointed Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar. The dialogues were suspended by India after the
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NSA Doval visits Pakistan High Commission, offers condolences
India | Dec 17, 2014, 10:09 PM ISTNew Delhi: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval today visited Pakistan High Commission here and offered condolences to the victims of the dastardly terror attack on Peshawar school that left 148 people including 132 children dead.He
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Pak High Commissioner moots sister city relations between two Hyderabads
India | Nov 17, 2014, 05:51 PM ISTHyderabad: Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit Sunday mooted the idea of sister city relations between the two Hyderabad cities - one in India's Deccan region and the other in Pakistan's Sindh province.On his
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Pakistan hopeful of resumption of talks with India soon: Basit
India | Nov 16, 2014, 09:29 PM ISTHyderabad: Observing that there is no complete “shutdown” in diplomacy, Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit today hoped the stalled dialogue process with India would resume soon even as he underlined the importance of
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Sharif rakes up Kashmir issue at UNGA; blames India for cancelling FS talks
World | Sep 26, 2014, 11:53 PM ISTUnited Nations: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today raked up the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly here and blamed India for “another missed opportunity” to address outstanding issues by cancelling the Foreign Secretary-level
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Khurshid taunts Modi, says diplomacy is not as easy as winning elections
National | Sep 22, 2014, 02:43 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has slammed PM Modi's foreign Affairs policy stating diplomacy is far more a strenuous exercise than winning an election in India.Speaking from past experience, Khurshid, who is
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India slams Pakistan for clean chit to Hafiz Saeed
India | Sep 15, 2014, 08:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: India on Monday hit out at Pakistan for its remarks that Hafiz Saeed had no case against him and he was free to roam, saying the designated terrorist was the “evil” mastermind behind
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No proposal for Modi-Sharif meeting in New York: Abdul Basit
India | Sep 15, 2014, 04:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: Pakistan today said it was not aware of any proposal for a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York on the margins of UN General
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Being a Pakistani citizen, Hafiz Sayeed is free to roam around there: Abdul Basit
India | Sep 15, 2014, 10:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit today asserted that JuD Chief Hafiz Saeed ia a Pakistani national who had the liberty to roam about freely in the country.While speaking to some media
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If Pakistan responds properly, talks can be resumed: Rajnath Singh
India | Sep 11, 2014, 07:37 PM ISTBhuj (Gujarat): The stalled talks between India and Pakistan can be resumed if the neighbouring country “responds properly”, Home Minister Rajnath Singh indicated today.“If Pakistan responds properly, talks can be held,” he told reporters here
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Sushma Swaraj does not rule out Modi-Sharif meeting
National | Sep 08, 2014, 06:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: India Monday did not rule out a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif on the margins of UN General Assembly session later this month, with External Affairs Minister
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US supportive of resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue
National | Sep 04, 2014, 11:18 AM ISTJaipur: The US today said it was important for India and Pakistan to find a way to resume dialogue and it was supportive of such efforts.“US would like to see a good relationship between India
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No incidents of ceasefire violation reported along LoC last night
India | Aug 26, 2014, 09:41 AM ISTJammu: No incidents of firing or shelling of mortars bomb was reported at the international border in Jammu on Monday night. There has been spurt in incidents of ceasefire violation by Pakistani Rangers along the Line
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Hope Centre will reconsider decision to cancel talks with Pak: Omar Abdullah
India | Aug 24, 2014, 05:12 PM ISTSrinagar: Terming frequent violations of the ceasefire as a “matter of serious concern”, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed hope that the Centre would reconsider its decision of cancelling talks with Pakistan
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Talks with Kashmiri separatists to continue: Pakistan envoy
World | Aug 20, 2014, 06:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: A defiant Pakistan today made it clear that it will continue talking to Kashmiri separatists despite India's protestation, saying that the “bottomline” for Indo-Pak talks on Kashmir issue was to engage all stakeholders
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Bilateral talks cannot resolve Kashmir issue: Ahmad Shah
National | Aug 18, 2014, 02:47 PM ISTSrinagar: Senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah today welcomed the upcoming Indo-Pakistan Foreign Secretary level talks but maintained that bilateral dialogue between the two countries would not resolve the Kashmir issue as people of the