NEW YORK — India delivered a blunt response Thursday to a peace proposal from Pakistan at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN: “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. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj gave a stinging reply in her address to the General Assembly. She contended that the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 168 people was still walking free in Pakistan. She also said recent cross-border attacks were intended to destabilize India. “Give up terrorism and let us sit down and talk. This will resolve all the problems,” she said. Swaraj proposed a path forward: that the two governments' national security advisers hold talks on terrorism, and senior military officers address the situation at the border. — AP
