The former Director General (DG) of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General (retd) Athar Abbas, said that a dialogue with India on levels other than that of the military establishment’s is “a need of Pakistan”. Addressing a gathering on the concluding day of the 14th Karachi Literature Festival, he stated that leaving it (dialogue with India) solely to the security establishment would be “like taking one step forward and two steps backwards. Watch this video for more.