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Live: Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz addresses media before crucial talks with India
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Pakistan\'s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz is addressing media on Saturday ahead of NSA-level talks with India.
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Pakistan's National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz is addressing media on Saturday ahead of NSA-level talks with India.
Highlights:
The reason for this regretful second cancellation, if it happens, will be the same.
Last year, India cancelled the talks between foreign secretaries scheduled for 25th August 2014 in Islamabad.
As suspense mounted over holding of the Indo-Pak NSA-level talks after both sides hardened their positions on the issue of Kashmiri separatists, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has also called a press conference in Delhi at 4 pm.
The Pakistan NSA is scheduled to hold discussions with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval tomorrow and day after.
While India has made it clear to Pakistan that a meeting between the separatists and Aziz was not appropriate, Pakistan reacted strongly to insist that it would not depart from the "established past practice" of interacting with separatist Hurriyat leaders.
India has described the invitation to Hurriyat representatives as a "provocative action" and accused Pakistan of trying to evade its commitment to engage in a substantive discussion on terrorism as had been agreed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa (Russia) last month.
It said that Islamabad's insistence on meeting Hurriyat leaders as a pre-condition was a complete departure from the Ufa understanding. Moreover, India has always held the position that there are only two, not three, stakeholders in the bilateral relationship.
Unilateral imposition of new conditions and "distortion of the agreed agenda cannot be the basis for going forward," External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swarup had said on Friday.
Pakistan had said last night that it was "deeply disappointed" at India putting forth "pre-conditions" for NSA-level talks, accusing it of going back on the decision mutually agreed at the highest level by coming up with "frivolous pretexts".
"This is the second time that India has chosen to go back on a decision mutually agreed upon between the two Prime Ministers, to engage in a comprehensive dialogue, by coming up with frivolous pretexts," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman said.
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