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Addressing the 193-member UN General Assembly, Sharif equated Kashmir with Palestine while talking about “suffering of Muslims across the world”, saying “Palestinians and Kashmiris (are) oppressed by foreign occupation”.

Nawaz Sharif walked into the conference hall and waved at Modi – who waved back and smiled. But there were questions whether the two leaders will have a meeting or at least shake hands.

Geelani further said that the case of Kashmiri people was strong and Pakistan’s principled position could lead India to be held accountable before the comity of nations and give up its obstinate policy.

But Gul also exemplified the oscillations within the Pakistani military establishment between anti-India paranoia and the desire to stabilize relations with Delhi.

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 minister said the meetings plan had been agreed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif when they met in the Russian city of Ufa last month.

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.

Pakistan’s argument that it had been agreed at the meeting at Ufa between the prime ministers of both countries that modalities for discussing Kashmir and other outstanding problems would be on the agenda for talks between the NSAs were dismissed by Swaraj.

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.

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.

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...