India, Pakistan Resume Sniping at UN After Meeting Falls Through
- Each side accuses the other of sabotaging latest peace effort
- Foreign ministers’ speeches assign blame for hostilities
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India and Pakistan, whose foreign ministers almost met in New York for what would have been the nuclear-armed neighbors’ first senior-level talks in three years, instead traded barbs from the United Nations General Assembly podium.
India’s external affairs minister on Saturday blamed Pakistan’s alleged support of violence against it for the breakdown of the most recent attempt to mend ties, accusing Pakistan of harboring terrorist groups and using them as an instrument of foreign policy. Pakistan’s foreign minister, speaking hours later from the same rostrum, said India was seeking to “divert world attention from its brutalities.”