India is ready to talk only after Pakistan withdraws its troops from Kashmir, Indian Ambassador to Japan Siddharth Singh said Monday.
During an explanatory visit to The Japan Times, Singh said that the latest invasion by Pakistani military forces was a result of Pakistan's miscalculation.
Pakistan had apparently hoped for a third-country intervention, which has not come, he said.
He also noted that India and Pakistan are committed to a bilateral solution to the dispute through the 1972 Simla Accord.
Singh pointed out that G8 leaders criticized Pakistan, though without naming it, and called for respecting the Line of Control (a ceasefire line). In particular, he said, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the European Union clearly blamed Pakistan for its actions.
The ambassador said there is no ambiguity, as Pakistan argues, about the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, a vital part of the 1972 Simla Accord, as the 740-km ceasefire line was the result of five months of careful meetings between Indian and Pakistani military officers, backed up by 27 detailed maps.
He said India's restraint in the current fighting, in which it has suffered heavy casualties, has won the support of the international community, including Japan.