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India-Pakistan areas of discord

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS,

Islamabad : The main stumbling blocks in India-Pakistan dialogue:

Kashmir: India says the happenings in Jammu and Kashmir are its own business. Pakistan disagrees, and says it concerns Islamabad too.

Mumbai attack: India seeks a timeframe to try the Pakistani accused. Pakistan says no timeframe is possible, that the Pakistani judiciary is independent and cannot be dictated.

Balochistan: India says produce evidence to back allegations that New Delhi supports insurgents in the huge Pakistani province. Pakistan reiterates its known stand.

Hafiz Saeed: New Delhi says that the Mumbai mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder’s fulminations against India will not help improve ties. Pakistan says the same is true for Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai’s accusations against the Pakistani intelligence vis-à-vis Mumbai on the eve of S.M. Krishna’s visit.

Dialogue: Pakistani officials say their Indian counterparts were intransigent and inflexible on issues concern Pakistan. Indians argue that Pakistanis kept shifting goalposts.

But both India and Pakistan agree to meet again – and keep talking.