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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 said it wanted a dialogue without any precondition.

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

The target appeared to be a vehicle carrying a foreign citizen, a security source and witness said.

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.

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”.

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...

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)...

A civilian was injured in an overnight ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers on the global Border in Jammu district.

Ahead of the India-Pakistan NSA-level talks scheduled on August 23-24, evidence emerged that 1993 Mumbai blasts main accused and underworld don Dawood Sheikh Ibrahim is in Pakistan.

However, both sides have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

The Deputy High Commissioner was conveyed Pakistan’s concern over the continued unprovoked ceasefire violations.

Three civilians were also injured in the firing, a statement from the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations said, adding that Pakistani troops bafflingly responded to the Indian firing.