India to Pakistan: ‘Give up terrorism’ and we can talk

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NEW YORK — India delivered a blunt response Thursday to a peace proposal from Pakistan at the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N.: “Give up terrorism” and we can talk.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday proposed steps to ease tensions between the nuclear rivals, including the formalization of a fraying 2003 cease-fire along the disputed frontier in Kashmir.