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Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif proposed on Wednesday renewed peace talks with India, aimed at defining the relationship between the Asian countries ‘as one of cooperation, not confrontation’.

“Pakistan is completely arranged to give a befitting reaction if India forced short or delayed war”, he included. They say that Pakistan needs to get rid of its religious identity and improve ties with India and other countries in the region.

However he blamed the centre along with the state government for interfering with the NSA-level talks by holding up the separatist leaders ahead of their meeting.

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.

Shah, who parted ways with moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference previous year and formed a separate unit, was not allowed to go for Friday prayers, a spokesman of Shah’s party said.

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...

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has cancelled its conference to be held in Pakistan in September, after India protested against Islamabad’s decision not to invite the Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the meeting.

Sources in the federal government said the prime minister – who held hours long meeting with his aides on Monday to discuss the agenda of the upcoming NSA meeting in New Delhi – finalised the strategy by getting input from the military leadership. Underworld don...

Ahead of the scheduled National Security level talks, Pakistan High Commission has extended its invitation to Hurriyat leaders for talks with its National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, media reported.

Islamabad summoned India’s deputy high commissioner JP Singh not once, but twice to register protest.

The broadcaster quoting military spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta as blaming Pakistani military for heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and civilian villages in Poonch and Balakote sectors since Sunday morning.

Since yesterday mortar shelling and heavy firing going on overnight in Hamirpur, Sujiyan, in Mandi sectors along LoC in Poonch.

Pakistan may have finally agreed to honour the bilateral understanding for NSA-level talks, but that has not calmed the apprehension in New Delhi about the intent of the estranged neigbour, especially that it may use the occasion for grandstanding for the domestic audience.

On India’s Independence Day on Saturday, the Pakistan Army used mortars and automatic weapons on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

AJK president said that by waving Pakistani flags in occupied Kashmir, People of Kashmir have given a loud and clear message to the India and worldwide community that they would never compromise on their principled stand and would continue their struggle till goal of liberation...