The ice was broken once again in Ufa (Russia), when PM Narendra Modi and then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit. The joint declaration issued on 15th July 2015, spelt out the sequence in which the two sides had agreed to resume and hold dialogue; the first in the sequence was to be a meeting between the National Security Advisors of the two countries to discuss terror.
The Ufa joint Statement, however, came under heavy attack in Pakistan as it did not contain an explicit reference to Kashmir. Pakistan therefore went back on the agreed sequence and insisted that it wanted a comprehensive dialogue including Kashmir.
