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NATO urges dialogue on Kashmir
Pakistan Times Jammu & Kashmir Desk

LONDON (UK)NULL another diplomatic victory for Pakistan on Kashmir, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has urged India and Pakistan to open a dialogue on the Kashmir dispute, reports KMS.

The appeal came as part of a resolution, amended at the last moment at Pakistan’s behest, adopted at the 55th annual session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh.

The head of the Pakistani delegation, Senator Syed Nayyer Hussain Bukhari, drew the participants attention towards the Kashmir dispute.

He said; it was a perpetual source of regional insecurity and instability and urged them to persuade India to commence stalled negotiations on the resolution of this long-standing issue.

Keeping in view Pakistan concerns, the assembly adopted two major amendments in the draft resolutions, which were related to insertion of a paragraph urging India and Pakistan to open a dialogue on Kashmir and deletion of a negative reference expressing ambiguity over Pakistan stance towards extremists.