If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.