The bombers who targeted Mumbai’s rail system had support from inside neighbouring Pakistan, India’s prime minister said today, warning that the nuclear-armed rivals’ peace process could be derailed unless Islamabad reins in terrorists operating from its territory.

INDIA has offered €20.6 million in aid to Pakistan in the latest goodwill gesture between the two countries since a powerful earthquake devastated the disputed Kashmir region.

India has offered $25m (€20.5m) in aid to Pakistan, an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, in the latest goodwill gesture between the two countries since a powerful earthquake devastated the disputed Kashmir region.

A strong aftershock shook Pakistan’s portion of Kashmir early today, rattling the nerves of people who survived this month’s quake that killed more than 54,000.

Indian and Pakistani representatives today met to discuss formalising a pact to share information ahead of missile tests and other measures aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear conflict.

Police in Nepal stormed the house of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and took him into custody today after he failed to appear before an anti-corruption commission, in a crackdown by the royalist government that critics say is politically motivated.

INDIAN troops have shot dead 14 Islamic militants in clashes across Indian-administered Kashmir while suspected rebels killed four civilians, officials said.

The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan prepared to resume talks today after harsh words over the weekend threatened to complicate the wide-ranging discussions that include their decades-old dispute over Kashmir.

India and Pakistan opened high-level talks today aimed at solving their decades-old dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan denying it arms and trains a separatist insurgency in the region and accusing India of human rights abuses there.

Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan agreed today to notify each other before testing missiles, to open consulates and to work toward settling their five-decade dispute over Kashmir and other bilateral issues.

Pakistan will allow Indian airlines to resume flights in its airspace, the president said today in the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the south Asian nuclear rivals.

India is to restart a bus service to Pakistan that was stopped 17 months ago after an attack on its parliament that New Delhi blamed on terrorists supported by Islamabad.

Pakistan raised the stakes in nascent peace overtures with India today, saying it would destroy its nuclear arsenal if its South Asian rival did the same.

INDIA test-fired a short-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon yesterday, and neighbour Pakistan immediately announced it had tested a similar missile.

India has blamed Pakistan for the murder of 24 Hindus by gunmen in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan expelled each other’s top diplomats today, virtually slamming the door on hopes for a dialogue to settle the long-standing Kashmir dispute.

Pakistan has postponed indefinitely a seven nation South Asian summit it was to host next month because rival neighbour India refused to confirm that it would attend.

PAKISTAN said yesterday it would withdraw hundreds of thousands of troops deployed along its border with India to their “peacetime locations”, matching a similar pledge by India.