Pakistan on Monday said it was not aware of
any proposal for a meeting between Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani
counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York on the
margins of UN General Assembly this month.
“As of this moment, I am not aware of any
proposal on this (Modi-Sharif meeting),”
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit
said here at a function.
While Prime Minister Modi will be in New York
from September 26 to 29, Mr. Sharif is scheduled
to be there from September 22 to 27. Though
there is an overlapping of small period when
both the leaders will be there, a meeting is
unlikely given the frosty ties between the two
countries.
The two countries witnessed a war of words last
month as I ndia cancelled Foreign Secretary-level
meeting after Pakistan went ahead with talks
with the Kashmiri separatists despite India
asking it to choose a “dialogue with India or
talks with separatists”.