Pakistan calls for preventing escalation of conflict in Southeast Asia

Escalation of conflict in Southeast Asia must not be allowed, Pakistan's Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary said, Report informs via TASS.

"We cannot allow escalation in South Asia. Instead, we (Pakistan and India) need to work together, fight terrorism and work on issues of economic cooperation in the region," Chaudhary said on the sidelines of the first ministerial forum of the Economic Cooperation Organization on sustainable development (a regional organization that includes Pakistan and several other countries of South and Central Asia).