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Pakistan requests U.N. Security Council meeting on Kashmir

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has asked the United Nations Security Council for an urgent meeting on the contested Kashmir region also claimed by India, according to a letter released by Pakistan's foreign ministry on Wednesday.

Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the request in a letter to UNSC President Joanna Wronecka, seeking to participate in the meeting under the agenda item 'India-Pakistan question'.

(Reporting by Alasdair Pal; editing by Darren Schuettler)

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