Kashmir talks still divided

India and Pakistan opened high-level talks today aimed at solving their decades-old dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan denying it arms and trains a separatist insurgency in the region and accusing India of human rights abuses there.

The war of words over Kashmir – the cause of two major armed conflicts between the nuclear-armed rivals – threatened to complicate the wide-ranging talks between Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri and his Indian counterpart, Natwar Singh.