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While the decision on the Indo-Pakistan NSA level talks was pending, separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah along with two others and Bilal Lone reached the Capital to hold talks with Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz but were detained at the Delhi airport on...

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Defending the non-inclusion of meeting Kashmir separatists in Ufa statement, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz today said there was no need to do that because he assumed it would happen as it did in the past.

Indian media reports on Friday even prematurely reported that India had cancelled the meeting and observers on all sides have lost faith in any progress being made.

They are killers paid by enemy who talks of friendship on the one hand and targets civilian population at LOC on the other. He warned against unnecessary debate on incidents of terrorism as, according to him, it creates hurdles in fighting anti-state elements.

“Pakistan, therefore, reiterates that the scheduled NSA level talks can not be held on the basis of the preconditions set by India”.

Pakistan said it wanted a dialogue without any precondition.

Lone is the fourth separatist from Kashmir who was detained at the Delhi airport.

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”.

A Pakistani newspaper reported that Pakistan will stress on laying out a counter terrorism mechanism during the talks.

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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He said that the US and its partners in that region recognised that terrorism was a shared challenge and a shared responsibility for all to work together.