India will complain about Pakistan to big daddy US over failed NSA-level talks

When US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha D Biswal will come to India to prepare for maiden Indo-US Strategic Commercial Dialogue, both the countries will discuss more than the set agenda.

India will apprise the visiting dignitary about the failed National Security Advisor-level talks with Pakistan.

Pakistan pulled out of the NSA-level talks after India insisted the agenda should be limited to terror and barred Sartaj Aziz from meeting Hurriyat leaders.

US showed disappointment over the botched up talks and hoped that India and Pakistan would resume a formal dialogue soon.

New Delhi will point out to the US on how the Pakistani military establishment raised the anti-India rhetoric within a few days of Ufa and tried to instigate India through statements and incidents, including the attack in Udhampur that resulted in the capture of militant Mohammed Naved.

Officials said it was evident from the beginning that Pakistan army would not allow the NSA-level talks. “After the arrest of Naved it was difficult for them to come for talks. In any case, non-inclusion of the K-word in the Ufa statement was seen as some kind of embarrassment for Pak Army," a senior official said.

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