India not to cancel NSA-level talks after Pak invite to Kashmiri separatists
Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is among the separatists invited by the Pakistani High Commission to meet with Aziz before his meeting on August 23 with India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval for an agenda primarily focused on countering terror.
India called off talks last July after Pakistan consulted the separatists before a meeting between their foreign secretaries.
"The government is considering an appropriate response to the (separatists) invite," NDTV has quoted its sources as saying.
India thinks Pakistan's strategy is to create tension that would lead to the talks being abrogated giving a feeling to the international community that India has called off the talks.
"This is deliberate attempt to irritate India," S Chandrasekharan, director of the South Asia Analysis Group in New Delhi has been quoted as saying.
The opposition has said the dialogue should not be held when the Pak attack from across the border continues unabated.
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