C'wealth FMs debating Pakistan's return

AFP, London
Foreign ministers and officials from nine Commonwealth nations resumed a two-day meeting in London yesterday that could see Pakistan back inside the 53-nation club after five years in the diplomatic cold.

The Commonwealth's Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was debating whether to readmit Pakistan, the world's second largest Muslim country, after it was suspended over an October 1999 bloodless coup by army chief-turned-president General Pervez Musharraf.

It began its work Friday over dinner. The outcome was expected to be announced later in the day, diplomats involved in the meeting told AFP.