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Attacks strain India s relationship with Pakistan: related news

Attacks strain India-Pakistan relations

MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- The terrorist attacks that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai last week has strained India's already tenuous relationship with Pakistan, as India investigates its neighbor's alleged ties to the massacre.

SBI, Bank of India abandon plans to revive branches in Pakistan

and Bank of India have dropped their plans to revive their branch operations in Pakistan. While the banks have denied that their rethink has any connection to the tension between India and Pakistan, the timings for the call-off is significant. The bank managements say they were forced to take a decision as Pakistan has hugely raised the minimum capital requirements of foreign banks that want to venture into the country. Both the banks had approached Pakistan s apex bank, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in September 2008, to seek an approval to re-start their banking activities that existed in the cities of Karachi and Lahore till 1965. Pakistani banks like United Bank of Pakistan and Habib Bank too have not approached RBI so far to obtain branch opening permissions in India.

Attacks strain India's relationship with Pakistan

MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- India's Home Minister Shivraj Patil submitted his resignation Sunday as the country investigated alleged Pakistani ties to the terrorist attacks that killed 183 people in Mumbai.

Sri Lanka to replace India in Pakistan tour

Sri Lanka announced yesterday that they will tour Pakistan next month in place of India, who cancelled their five-week series because of the Mumbai attacks. Sri Lanka Cricket said it had formally decided to take India’s place and play three Test matches and five one-day internationals. The Pakistan Cricket Board said that it stood to lose at least $25 million (about £16.5 million) as a result of India’s withdrawal, but would now recover some of the money. Pakistan played their most recent Test in December last year against India in Bangalore.

Pakistan: Sri Lanka cricket team to replace India on tour

Lahore, 19 Dec. (AKI) - The Sri Lankan cricket team will tour Pakistan next year following India's withdrawal after the Mumbai terror attacks, the Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed. Sri Lanka and Pakistan (photo) will play three tests, three one-day matches and a Twenty 20 match during the tour.

Wasim urges India not to sever cricket ties with Pakistan

KARACHI (December 02 2008): Former great Wasim Akram Monday called on India not to break cricketing ties with Pakistan, suggesting both countries should instead play a Test match in terrorist-hit Mumbai to show solidarity. The former Pakistan cricket captain made his remarks amid reports that the Indian government has denied its cricket team permission to tour Pakistan early next year following last week's attacks on Mumbai which left more than 170 dead.

India cancels cricket tour of Pakistan, cites Mumbai attacks

India's Harbhajan Singh is seen during a practice session ahead of second test cricket match between India and England in Mohali, India, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008. Second test is scheduled to start on Dec. 19.

India call off planned Pakistan cricket tour over Mumbai attacks

Karachi: A disappointed Pakistan invited Sri Lanka to tour IN January as replacements for India, who pulled out on Thursday following last month’s Mumbai attacks.

India calls off Pakistan cricket tour in wake of Mumbai attacks

INDIAN sports minister M S Gill says India's cricketers will not tour Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

?India, Pak must stand together now?

In the wake of the recent terror strikes that many fear could turn India into a pariah for world cricket, the newly-appointed Director General of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Javed Miandad, has extended support to the Indian board, saying Pakistan are keen to play in India and that India should reciprocate the same way by visiting Pakistan in January next year.

India's sports minister not in favour of Pakistan tour

India's sports minister, MS Gill, has said India should not tour Pakistan in the wake of the terror attacks in Mumbai. While voices on both sides of the border have lobbied for and against the tour, Gill's statement is the first direct statement on the issue by a member of the Indian government.

India cancel cricket tour of Pakistan

MUMBAI (India): India have called off next month's cricket tour of Pakistan, the government refusing permission amid simmering tension between the neighbours over the militant attacks in Mumbai in November.

Why India must tour Pakistan

India's impending war on terror is threatening to claim a soft target. The country burns with anger and indignation over the state's failure to protect its citizens. Preliminary evidence suggests that the terrorists who carried out last week's attacks in Mumbai were trained and controlled by groups based in Pakistan, which is, of course, not the same as the state of Pakistan - itself a victim of terror at the moment; in recent months, terrorists have claimed the life of Benazir Bhutto, and carried out a horrific attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad - but in these charged and emotional times, lines have blurred.

India: Islamabad Aided Attacks

After a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks turned parts of Mumbai's financial district into a combat zone, officials in New Delhi, India, and Islamabad, Pakistan, grapple with the political and diplomatic fallout of India's deadliest terror attack in 15 years.

India unhappy with Sri Lanka's cricket tour to Pakistan: Reports

The tour was hastily arranged by Pakistan after India refused to go ahead with the scheduled visit following last month's terror attacks in Mumbai. The then interim committee of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) headed by Arjuna Ranatunga, which was later dismissed by the government, accepted the invitation to fill in for India.

We can tour Pakistan if India don't - Ranatunga

As doubts continue to hover around India's tour to Pakistan next month, options have finally begun to emerge for a cricket-starved Pakistan. Though no official contact has yet been made between the boards, Sri Lanka has already expressed its readiness to replace India for the tour.

Sri Lanka offer to tour Pakistan if India don't

As doubts continue to hover around India's tour to Pakistan next month, options have finally begun to emerge for a cricket-starved Pakistan. Though no official contact has yet been made between the boards, Sri Lanka has already expressed its readiness to replace India for the tour.

Cricket takes the first hit after Mumbai attacks

India is likely to take the cricket route to launch its first offensive against Pakistan as a fall-out of the Mumbai terror attacks. Cricketing ties have often been the first casualty whenever relations between India and Pakistan, and could nosedive again.

India-Pakistan cricket series will be exciting: Misbah

Pakistan vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq believes that India is the most improved side in world cricket and if they tour Pakistan next month, the series will be exciting.


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