Saudi envoy meets army chief

11 Aug, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The Saudi Arabian Ambassador, Nawaf Saeed Al Malki on Monday called on Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), matters of mutual interest, regional security situation and bilateral defence relations between the two brotherly countries were discussed during the meeting.

Earlier last week, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in an unusually sharp warning asked the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to stop dilly-dallying on the convening of a meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (CFMs) on Kashmir on Pakistan's request, pending since India's illegal and unilateral steps of August 5, 2019.

"I'm once again respectfully telling OIC that a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers is our expectation. If you cannot convene it, then I'll be compelled to ask Prime Minister Imran Khan to call a meeting of the Islamic countries that are ready to stand with us on the issue of Kashmir and support the oppressed Kashmiris," the foreign minister had said in a TV interview on Wednesday.

"If OIC fails to convene the CFM meeting, Pakistan would be ready to go for a session outside OIC...Pakistan cannot wait any further," Qureshi had said.

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