Nirupama Rao


  • US blind-sided, Pak has K-plan to outfox India
    March 19 2010 | DC Correspondent

    Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao was at pains to reassure the Obama administration during her recent visit to Washington that Delhi had reached out to Pakistan despite concerns over Islamabad’s continuing export of terror.

  • India has asked the United States to review and update its export controls to reflect the changed political realities of their emerging strategic partnership.

  • Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is set to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor James Jones, signifying importance attached by the Obama Administration to ties with India.

  • Expressing "surprise" over Pakistan's claim that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the 26/11 masterminds, was not taken up during foreign secretary-level talks, India on Sunday said it has been demanding action against him since the barbaric and dastardly attacks in Mumbai and the matter was raised "strongly" during the parleys.

  • Pak talks up word war
    February 26 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    The talks between the foreign secretary, Ms Nirupama Rao, and Pakistan’s Mr Salman Bashir here on Thursday was described as “cordial”, but Mr Bashir’s press conference subsequently degenerated into rhetoric, putting a questionmark on Islamabad’s sincerity.

  • Indo-Pak talks begin
    February 25 2010

    The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan on Thursday began official talks here, the first formal engagement since the Mumbai terror attacks 14 months ago.