Islamabad, Dec 1: Pakistan and India will not hold any bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia Conference being held in Amritsar on December 3-4. The decision comes after India expressed strong objection to Pakistan’s stand in favour of terrorists operating within India. 

 
National Security Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz is leading the Pakistani delegation on the two-day meeting that will focus on cooperation between Afghanistan and its neighbours for improving connectivity and tackling security threats in the region.
 
"For now, we don't see any willingness on their part… the ball is in India's court, for they know we are willing but we don't know whether they are willing," a foreign office official told Dawn on Wednesday.
 
India meanwhile has made its stance for talks very clear by stating that terror and talks cannot go hand in hand especially after a soldier was recently mutilated and with the constant onslaught of violence being purported with Pakistan’s help on Indian soil. 

 "Pakistan has not requested for any bilateral meeting so far," Gopal Baglay, who heads the Indian Ministry of External Affairs division dealing with Pakistan, said at a briefing in New Delhi.
 
Pakistan and India had at the last Heart of Asia ministerial meeting in Islamabad agreed to start "Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue" that was to cover all outstanding issues. The resumption of the dialogue could, however, not take place due to the Pathankot attack in January earlier this year.
  
 
The Pakistan government decided to attend the Heart of Asia conference despite a deep freeze in bilateral ties, even though India had scuttled the Saarc summit that Islamabad was to host in November this year.

India will stick to its strategy of going strong in pushing for International isolation of Pakistan by campaigning against the terror camps operating from Paksitani soil.