Pakistan's Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi has raised the Kashmir issue with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) envoys at a meeting here, according to a source briefed on the proceedings.

At their meeting on Monday she appealed to Guterres and the OIC to make it a priority to push for a "peaceful solution" of the Kashmir issue saying that the rising tensions threatened regional stability, the source said. Attempts by Lodhi and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to involve Guterres in the Kashmir issue have been unsuccessful.