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| India issues midnight ultimatum to Pakistan over talks |
| 2015-08-23 |
| [ARABNEWS] India issued an ultimatum to Pakistain Saturday, giving Islamabad until midnight to agree to restrict high-level bilateral talks to militancy alone, leaving a planned meeting between the two countries' national security advisers in doubt. The talks, which were due to have taken place in New Delhi on Sunday, have been thrown into question after a row between the two arch-rivals over Pakistain's plan to meet with Kashmiri separatists leaders and desire to broaden the scope of the talks. India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told news hounds on Saturday that Pakistain had until "tonight" to agree to an agenda that was restricted to discussions of "terror, and terror only." Swaraj insisted India was not setting "pre-conditions for talks but only insisting on what was agreed to as agenda by both countries' leaders for the NSAs meet," referring to a meeting between Indian 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... in the Russian city of Ufa last month. Asked what would happen if Pakistain did not agree to India's demands regarding the agenda of the talks, Swaraj replied: "Then talks won't happen." Swaraj's remarks came just hours after Pakistain's National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... insisted he was ready to meet his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, despite India's foreign ministry saying it would be inappropriate for the Pak diplomat to meet with the Hurriyat separatist movement while in the Indian capital. |
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