Indo-Pak NSAs could have met in New York but Islamabad didn't seem keen

October 14, 2015 08:10

After the aborted NSA-level talks in New Delhi, there was a chance of the Indian and Pakistani National Security Advisors holding a meeting in New York last month, but India "got a sense" the other side wasn't open to the idea, said official sources.

India is still keen to continue on the lines of the agreement arrived at between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, Russia, in July, and would have been open to NSA talks on terrorism in New York, said the source.

The August 23 talks between India's NSA Ajit Doval and Pakistan's Sartaj Aziz was called off after India stressed that the talks agenda should stick to what had been agreed upon at Ufa.

There was a chance of the two NSAs holding a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, and India "would have been open" to the idea. But "our sense was they weren't that open and that's why it didn't happen", the source added.

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