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In a statement, the State Department said, “We are disappointed the talks will not happen this weekend and encourage India and Pakistan to resume formal dialogue soon”.

Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India had agreed in Russian town of Ufa that all outstanding issues between the two countries will be discussed at talks between two National Security Advisers.

After going through several now-on, now-off moments, the NSA talks between India and Pakistan were finally called off on Saturday, with both sides sticking to their positions.

Following last-minute scuttling of talks between the national security advisers of Pakistan and India, proposed meetings between senior military officials of the two countries are now unlikely senior Pakistani officials said. The Pakistan government cancelled the planned meeting...

Pakistan’s national security adviser insisted yesterday that he was ready to travel to New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart despite a row between the arch-rivals over his planned meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders.

“These are issues for the two to resolve together, and that’s what we continue to encourage is a resumption of dialogue between the leaders of both India and Pakistan”, he said.

Noting that “extraneous” issues are being used to throw spanner in the process of talks, he said that the exercise is being exploited by those who influence border issues in Pakistan against India.

Accusing Pakistan of deviating from the agenda for talks set during the meeting of the Indian and Paksitani prime ministers in Ufa in July, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said here on Sunday that the cancellation National Security Advisor-level parleys was really unfortunate....

In a statement later, Islamabad rejected what it called New Delhi’s “preconditions” for the talks.

The curtains came down by Saturday night on the dramatic spectacle around holding India-Pakistan talks, less than a day before Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz was due to land in New Delhi, with bitter accusations and acrimony marking the exchanges.

Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said that Pakistan’s stand on the talks clearly violates the agreement signed between the two nations way back in 1998.

This is first visit by the Indian prime minister in over a decade.

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.

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

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