Popular sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik of Odisha has created a sand sculpture titled 'Bring Peace' with a design of the India and Pakistan flags.
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Pattnaik said that his sand sculpture should be seen as a fervent appeal for India and Pakistan to work wholeheartedly for maintaining peace between the peoples of the two nations.
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The sand sculpture was made on a day when both India and Pakistan traded verbal volleys and disagreements over what they would agree to talk about during the proposed national security advisor-level talks that were scheduled to be held on August 24 in New Delhi.
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However, in a late night decision on Saturday, the Government of Pakistan issued an official statement in which it said that it was withdrawing from the talks because of what it called India's preconditions for holding them, as well as blaming India for giving a "concocted" twist to a couple of significant issues that are of mutual importance to both nations.