Pakistan Should Be A Moderate Islamic State.

I Do Believe That India Needs A Lot More Foreign Direct Investment Than We've Got, And We Should Have The Ambition To Move In The Same League Many Other Countries In Our Neighborhood Are Moving. We May Not Be Able To Reach Where The Chinese Are Today, But There Is No Reason Why We Should Not Think Big About The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment, Particularly In The Areas Relating To Infrastructure, Where Our Needs For Investment Are Very Large. We Need New Initiatives, Management Skills, And I Do Believe That Direct Foreign Investment Can Play A Very Important Role.

I Should Like To Express Our Profound Gratitude To The Americans Of Indian Origin. The Way They Have Conducted Themselves, The Way They Have Worked Hard To Carve Out A Niche For Themselves In The Silicon Valley, I Think This Has Also Given America A New Idea About What India Is Capable Of.

We Got Government Off The Backs Of The People Of India, Particularly Off The Backs Of India's Entrepreneurs. We Introduced More Competition, Both Internal Competition And External Competition. We Simplified And Rationalized The Tax System. We Made Risk-taking Much More Attractive.

We All Know The Epicentre Of Terrorism In The World Today Is Pakistan. The World Community Has To Come To Grips With This Harsh Reality.

I Sincerely Hope That Whatever Influence The United States Has In Pakistan, It Will Convince Pakistan That Using Terrorism As An Instrument Of State Policy Has No Place In The World That We Want To Build.