Srinagar, August 20: Even as Pakistan speaks of talks with India, its troops continued to violate ceasefire on the border. Pakistan violated ceasefire in the Kamalkote sector of Uri in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday amid news of Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke of talks with India. The ceasefire violation comes just days after former cricketer Imran Khan was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Qureshi on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to Imran Khan in which he indicated the beginning of talks between the two countries. Indian MEA officials denied Pakistan's claims. "PM Modi wrote a congratulatory letter to Imran Khan, but there was no new proposal for dialogue," government sources told ANI.

"India and Pakistan have to move forward keeping realities before them," Qureshi said at the press conference. He added that PM Narendra Modi had written a letter to Imran Khan in which he indicated a beginning of talks between the two countries, according to reports published in Pakistan media. He also emphasised on 'uninterrupted' dialogue with India.

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