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Some national parliaments, including Germany, still must approve the deal.

The banks are being kept afloat by emergency cash from Europe’s central bank, but urgently need a longer term solution.

If the bailout is not approved by the Eurogroup, it could decide to grant Greece 6.04 billion euros in bridge financing, according to German newspaper Bild, citing a European Commission proposal for the meeting.

Putting the onus back on India, Pakistan Saturday said it was prepared for NSA-level talks without any pre-conditions amid continuing signs that the meeting was unlikely to take place.

While Sushma in her press conference in New Delhi clearly denied to talk over Kashmir issue terming the dialogues not ‘Composite’.

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.

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...

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.

“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.

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.

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.