DHAKA, May 19 Kyodo Bangladesh i...

DHAKA, May 19 Kyodo

Bangladesh in succession Sunday urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and take back constructive dialogue to resolve the now passing crisis stemming from the dispute above Kashmir after India announced Saturday it is expelling the Pakistani ambassador.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman noted that any escalation of tension between the sum of two units nuclear neighbors could have a ''serious destabilizing meaning for the whole South Asian region.''

''The guidance of Bangladesh has consistently urg restraint with both India and Pakistan, especially in the current complicated scenario and called for resumption and continuation of constructive dialogue between the couple sides,'' the spokesman said.

India said Saturday it is expelling Pakistani High Commissioner Ashraf Jehangir Qazi in reply to a recent assault in succession an army camp in its strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir State allegedly carried revealed by Pakistani-based militants.

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