Hindu, 1 July 2008

ISLAMABAD: Ram Prakash, an Indian released on Tuesday on completion of his 10-year jail term on spying charges, was sent back to prison from the Wagah border because he did not have travel documents to cross into India. The Indian High Commission here said it was unable to provide him the papers as Pakistan had not given information about the release ...

Daily Excelsior, 29 June 2008

LONDON, June 28: Describing as "solvable" the Kashmir issue with India, Pakistan's ruling PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari has said the two countries should not allow slow progress on it to be an obstacle to work in other cooperative matters. "We must make viable peace. This (Kashmir) is a solvable problem that must not take further lives," Zardari said in a ???special vision statement' read out at a conference organised by ???Tehelka' magazine here yesterday. Pending a final settlement, "we agree with the statement of your Prime Minister supporting an autonomous Kashmir running much of its own affairs," Zardari said. "A Commission can be established between the two countries and the leaders of Kashmir themselves to work out what should be done in foreign and defence affairs," he said ...

Hindu, 29 June 2008

NEW DELHI: In a significant development that could a give a push to the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, India and Pakistan on Friday declared they had achieved a breakthrough in resolving all 'bilateral commercial issues' that were blocking the implementation of the $7.4-billion project. New Delhi and Islamabad announced that the Petroleum Secretaries would hold talks on July 1 in Madrid to finalise a common strategy on issues such as Tehran's demand of a price revision clause. Both India and Pakistan are opposed to the new clause and plan to make a joint case at the trilateral meeting that may take place in Tehran next month ...