We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

You can change friends but not neighbours.