Highlights 1 Both Modi and Sharif will be together at the Astana summit2 Sushma Swaraj said talks and terror can't go together3 Tension between India and Pakistan have increased recentlyAmid a recent spike in tensions between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today rejected speculations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit at Astana in Kazakhstan on June 8-9. India and Pakistan are among the six observer states in the SCO and will be elevated as full-time members in this summit. PM Modi has earlier asserted that Islamabad "must walk away from terror if it wants to have dialogue with India". Sushma Swaraj repeated this today saying "talks and terror cannot go together". The two countries are bound by these bilateral agreements," Sushma Swaraj said.

Source: India Today June 05, 2017 14:03 UTC