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They agreed that India and Pakistan have a collective responsibility to ensure peace and promote development. To do so, they are prepared to discuss all outstanding issues.
That was already said & I did point out that part was a general statement & not part of NSA talks which could only be on the matter connected to what was referred to - terrorism. The NSA could no more discuss Kashmir than the chiefs of the border security or the DGMO. Each of them had a specific part they had to deal with.
In any case, this was meant to be the beginning. If the NSA talks had gone off well, it could be followed up by FS talks where Kashmir could have been discussed along with other issues. However to load it on the NSA level talks clearly showed that Pakistan was not serious. The Indian NSA wasn't going to veer off script nor did he have a remit to discuss anything else. The argument that regardless of the specific task mentioned of the NSA, they would talk on Kashmir is as silly as sports minister discussing the Kashmir problem, if they were discussing ways to increase sporting contacts.