India says it has received notification from Islamabad that Pakistan intends to conduct a series of missile tests.

India’s prime minister was planning to visit soldiers along its tense frontier with Pakistan today, where heavy cross-border shelling has killed dozens and reignited fears of war between the nuclear-armed rivals.

India today claimed that one of its diplomatic staff has been abducted in Islamabad by Pakistani intelligence personnel, apparently in retaliation for the arrest of a Pakistani diplomat earlier in the week.

Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers will sit at the same table tomorrow for the first time since the dispute over Islamic militant attacks on India’s Parliament pushed the nuclear neighbours to the brink of war.

India has delivered to Pakistan a list of 20 other suspected terrorists it wants arrested and handed over.

Elite Indian strike forces have moved closer to Pakistan’s border amid escalating tensions, following a suicide attack on India’s Parliament, the defence minister said.

India is supporting the military assault on Afghanistan.

Talks between the leaders of India and Pakistan were deadlocked tonight when both sides failed to reach an agreement on a joint declaration over the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

The leaders of India and Pakistan held ‘‘frank and constructive’’ talks about nuclear safeguards, the fighting in Kashmir and freer trade during their first formal talks in two years today.