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CALGARY, Canada, June 27 (AFP) - The Group of Eight nations urged Pakistan Thursday to prevent terrorists operating from its soil, in brief comments issued at the end of a two-day summit in the Canadian Rockies.

"We agreed that Pakistan must put a permanent stop to terrorist activity originating from territory under its control," said an official text of a statement by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, summing up the summit as its host and chairman.

In a break with custom, there was no joint statement from the leaders of the world's top industrialised nations.

"Both countries should commit to sustained dialogue on the underlying issues that divide them," Chretien's statement added.

India and Pakistan have deployed over a million troops along their borders since a militant attack on the Indian parliament last December which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based militants.

Tensions between the two nations have eased recently with Islamabad giving assurances to the United States that it would ensure there was no infiltration of Islamic militants from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir into Indian-administered Kashmir.

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