But Pakistan is unwilling to relent. Hours before the talks were to begin, Pakistan said the terms India said were non-negotiable – no involving the Hurriyat in the talks and to accept by midnight on Saturday that Kashmir would be off the agenda – were not acceptable.
Pakistan’s Sartaz Aziz is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi to meet India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval on Sunday, just as both countries have upped their rhetoric over the disputed region of Kashmir.
Speaking to reporters before his departure, he said, “Today we are going to ask the people of India whether former Indian Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, their leader L K Advani or Manmohan Singh were wrong”.
Ahead of Pak-India dialogues on August 23, India said on 21 that it has requested Pakistan to avoid meeting Hurriyat leaders. He would much rather be known as the tough Indian PM who showed the separatist Hurriyat leaders their place. Pakistan, however, insists that Aziz plans to...
But neither side was formally calling off the talks. “New Delhi will never get the permanent seat of UN Security Council unless it recognizes the resolutions passed by the World Body about Kashmir dispute and implements them in letter and spirit”, he added. (Indo-Pak)...
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