NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, agreed on Sunday that better ties require an effort to restore a cross-border ceasefire after a spate of shootings, a senior Indian official said.
Singh and Sharif met for more than an hour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, amid heightened tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours over Kashmir, sparked by series of fatal clashes on their de facto Himalayan border.
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