NATO, Pakistan seek to boost non-military ties

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BRUSSELS, June 4 (AFP): NATO and Pakistani leaders agreed Friday on the need to strengthen their political ties, even as they face an increasingly bloody military struggle with Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
Measures could include high level exchanges and parliamentary visits, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said after meeting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the alliance's Brussels headquarters.
"We have not only to confine (our cooperation) to only terrorism and extremism," Gilani told a joint press conference, referring to the fight against Islamist insurgents in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area.