MUMBAI (Reuters) – “The tragedy of India is its political system.”

That admission by a government minister captured the frustration of delegates at this week’s India’s World Economic Forum (WEF), where blame has been heaped on corruption and the policy paralysis in New Delhi for a darkening economic outlook.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Washington has just about had it with Pakistan.

“Turns out they are disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States,” fumed Republican Representative Ted Poe last week. “We pay them to hate us. Now we pay them to bomb us. Let’s not pay them at all.”

For many in America, Islamabad has been nothing short of perfidious since joining a strategic alliance with Washington 10 years ago: selectively cooperating in the war on extremist violence and taking billions of dollars in aid to do the job, while all the time sheltering and supporting Islamist militant groups that fight NATO troops in Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Washington has just about had it with Pakistan.

“Turns out they are disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States,” fumed Republican Representative Ted Poe last week. “We pay them to hate us. Now we pay them to bomb us. Let’s not pay them at all.”

For many in America, Islamabad has been nothing short of perfidious since joining a strategic alliance with Washington 10 years ago: selectively cooperating in the war on extremist violence and taking billions of dollars in aid to do the job, while all the time sheltering and supporting Islamist militant groups that fight NATO troops in Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants and, facing a crisis in relations with its ally, heaped fresh praise on “all-weather friend” China.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking exclusively to Reuters, said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country’s sovereignty.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants and, facing a crisis in relations with its ally, heaped fresh praise on “all-weather friend” China.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking exclusively to Reuters, said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country’s sovereignty.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s prime minister warned Washington on Tuesday that continued accusations of playing a double game in the war on militancy only risked fanning anti-Americanism in his country.

Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking in an interview with Reuters, also said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country’s sovereignty.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan shot back on Saturday at U.S. allegations that its powerful spy agency supports the Haqqani militant group fighting coalition troops in Afghanistan, describing them as a sign of American “confusion and policy disarray.”

“We strongly reject assertions of complicity with the Haqqanis or of proxy war,” Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said, breaking off from a speech to aid agencies and foreign diplomats on the country’s flood disaster.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Washington’s stunning charge that Pakistan’s spy service is backing violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan has pushed Islamabad into a tight corner: either it cleans up the powerful agency or it faces the wrath of an angry superpower.

There has never been much doubt in Washington that the shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) plays a “double game,” supporting some militants to extend its influence in Afghanistan and counter India, while targeting others.

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United States and Pakistan inched closer to open confrontation on Thursday, the top U.S. military officer accusing Pakistan’s intelligence agency in the strongest terms yet of involvement in violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan.

Admiral Mike Mullen called the Haqqani militant network a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s powerful ISI intelligence service, which he said supported the group’s attack last week on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, a blow to U.S. efforts to bring the Afghan war to a peaceful end.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan would not tolerate any incursion on its territory by U.S. forces targeting militant groups, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, calling for Washington to provide the intelligence Islamabad needs to take them out itself.

Rehman Malik also rejected U.S. allegations that Pakistan’s intelligence agency aids or has ties with the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network, a powerful guerrilla group that straddles the mountainous border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan.