India and Pakistan in talks over Siachen Glacier Pakistan's army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, called for a negotiated end to the stalemate and said the glacier should be demilitarised after an avalanche on April 7 killed 140 people at a Pakistani army camp. "The two sides will discuss Siachen and other matters related to defence affairs," Sohail Aftab, a spokesman for the Pakistani defence ministry, told AFP. It is the 13th round of talks between the nuclear-armed rivals on Siachen. All previous discussions have ended in stalemate. The Indian delegation is being led by S.K. Sharma and the Pakistani side by Nargis Sethi. The Indian visitors were to meet Pakistan's Defence Minister Naveed Qamar later on Monday, but Pakistan provided no further details. A joint statement will be issued on Tuesday, the spokesman said. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them over Kashmir. Last year they resumed their tentative peace process, which collapsed after Islamist gunmen from Pakistan killed 166 people in Mumbai in November 2008.