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Indian and Pakistani diplomats will meet Saturday in Islamabad to try to draft a peace treaty, officials said. The neighboring nations have clashed in three wars in the last 38 years. Romesh Bhandar, India’s minister of foreign affairs, will meet his Pakistani counterpart, Niaz A. N. Naik, to discuss combining a Pakistani draft and an Indian proposal. The two sides exchanged the documents three years ago but never finalized them.
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