The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

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

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

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.

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