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India in no hurry to talk to Pakistan
PublishedSeptember 17, 2015 | Byadmin
SOURCE: TNN
Pakistan may be insisting on a broader format of bilateral talks that covers J&K as a precondition for coming to the negotiation table but India is in no mood to relent on its stand that the two countries needed to talk terrorism before moving on to other issues of mutual concern.
Amid growing suggestions from across the border that India agree to hold “composite dialogue” where J&K is on the table along with terror, top-ranking official sources here said India had no plans to subvert the sequence the two countries had agreed to in Ufa in July where Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif agreed with PM Narendra Modi that the NSAs of the two countries discuss terror as a prelude to wider engagement.
The NSA talks scheduled in August did not happen with Pakistan abruptly demanding that Kashmir could not be kept off the table, an insistence that was publicly rebuked by India as violation of the Ufa agreement.
Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz was quoted as saying on Wednesday that Sharif will not like to have talks with Modi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month if India did not give up its stand for prioritizing terror over other issues. Aziz’s pitch also seemed to reflect an assessment in Islamabad that India might acquiesce to the pressure for discussing J&K.
Sources in Delhi, however, ruled out any revision of the stand, suggesting that New Delhi will stick to its lines even if that knocked out the prospect of early restoration of talks between the estranged neighbours. “We are not dying to talk to them if they don’t adhere to what they agreed to,” a senior government functionary said.
The stand also rules out the possibility of Modi venturing beyond exchange of pleasantries when he meets Sharif while in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting.
PublishedSeptember 17, 2015 | Byadmin
SOURCE: TNN
Pakistan may be insisting on a broader format of bilateral talks that covers J&K as a precondition for coming to the negotiation table but India is in no mood to relent on its stand that the two countries needed to talk terrorism before moving on to other issues of mutual concern.
Amid growing suggestions from across the border that India agree to hold “composite dialogue” where J&K is on the table along with terror, top-ranking official sources here said India had no plans to subvert the sequence the two countries had agreed to in Ufa in July where Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif agreed with PM Narendra Modi that the NSAs of the two countries discuss terror as a prelude to wider engagement.
The NSA talks scheduled in August did not happen with Pakistan abruptly demanding that Kashmir could not be kept off the table, an insistence that was publicly rebuked by India as violation of the Ufa agreement.
Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz was quoted as saying on Wednesday that Sharif will not like to have talks with Modi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month if India did not give up its stand for prioritizing terror over other issues. Aziz’s pitch also seemed to reflect an assessment in Islamabad that India might acquiesce to the pressure for discussing J&K.
Sources in Delhi, however, ruled out any revision of the stand, suggesting that New Delhi will stick to its lines even if that knocked out the prospect of early restoration of talks between the estranged neighbours. “We are not dying to talk to them if they don’t adhere to what they agreed to,” a senior government functionary said.
The stand also rules out the possibility of Modi venturing beyond exchange of pleasantries when he meets Sharif while in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting.