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| Delhi uncertain on fate of high-level talks with Pakistan |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [ARABNEWS] Indian officials said on Sunday that two planned meetings with Pak counterparts are now uncertain after talks between their national security advisers were cancelled amid a row over disputed Kashmiree. The collapse of peace talks hours before they were to start on Sunday has raised questions about the arch-rivals' willingness to overcome mutual mistrust, built since their separation almost seven decades ago. Pakistain said late Saturday it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks which had been scheduled for Sunday in New Delhi, effectively cancelling them. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Saturday that apart from Sunday's meeting two other high-level meetings of officials had been planned to discus border and cease-fire violations. Cross-border shelling in Kashmiree this month has caused several civilian deaths on both sides. The minister said the meetings plan had been agreed by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistain's Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... when they met in the Russian city of Ufa last month. "We have already described the cancellation of NSAs (national security advi sers) meet by Pakistain as unfortunate," a senior Foreign Ministry official told AFP on Sunday, referring to an earlier Tweet by the ministry. "Now, the fate of those other two meetings is also not clear... it will take a few days for some more clarity." Swaraj had given Islamabad till Saturday midnight to agree to restrict the NSA talks to "terrorism only" after a row over Pakistain's plan to meet Kashmiri separatist leaders and its insistence on broadening the scope of the talks. Swaraj insisted that what Pakistain described as "preconditions" were actually "the agenda for NSAs meet which both leaders agreed to in Ufa." |
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