India, Pakistan peace talks to resume-Indian sources
NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume formal peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said on Thursday, a move that should help ease tensions in the volatile region.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have been under pressure from the United States to reduce tension because their rivalry spills over into Afghanistan, complicating peace efforts there.
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Boy suicide bomber kills 31 at Pakistan army centre
ISLAMABAD - A 12-year-old boy in a school uniform blew himself up at a Pakistani army recruitment centre on Thursday, killing 31 cadets, officials said, in an attack that challenges government assertions that it has weakened militants.
The army has carried out a series of offensives against the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban movement, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
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India's food inflation eases, price pressures remain
NEW DELHI - India's food inflation eased in end January on moderating prices of fruits and vegetables but annual headline inflation in January is still expected to remain high.
India's food price index rose 13.07 percent and the fuel price index climbed 11.61 percent in the year to Jan. 29, government data on Thursday showed.
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U.S. troop cut could set back Afghan gains-thinktank
LONDON - U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to begin reducing the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in July would jeopardise hard-won security gains there, a security thinktank said on Wednesday.
The International Council on Security and Development (ICOS), which regularly conducts research in Afghanistan, recommended current force levels be maintained until July 2012. (Compiled by World Desk Singapore, +65 6870-3815)
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