India uncertain on fate of planned high-level Pakistan meets

New Delhi

Indian officials said yesterday that two planned meetings with Pakistani counterparts are now uncertain after talks between their national security advisers were cancelled amid a row over disputed Kashmir.

Pakistan said late Saturday it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks, which had been scheduled for yesterday in New Delhi, effectively cancelling them.

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that apart from yesterday's meeting two other high-level meetings of officials had been planned to discuss border and ceasefire violations.

The minister said the meetings plan had been agreed by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif when they met in the Russian city of Ufa last month