Pakistan re-admitted to Commonwealth

Commonwealth foreign ministers today lifted the suspension of Pakistan from the organisation.

Following a meeting in London of the nine-member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon said that the four-and-a-half-year-old suspension was being lifted.

However, he said that CMAG would continue to keep Pakistan on its agenda and to monitor developments in the country.

He warned that they expected Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to honour an assurance that he would step down as head of the army by the end of the year.