ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that hehas spoken to Turkish foreign minister and agreed to hold an urgent meetingof the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC,”.
The meeting will be held in Istanbul on March 22.
He said that Pakistani ambassador and deputy high commissioner in NewZealand have met the families of the deceased. “We have established contactwith the 10 families and are constantly in touch with them,” he said.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he has spoken to his counterpart in NewZealand. “The foreign minister said that New Zealand is a peace lovingnation.”
He has expressed concern and said that the shooter was an Australian, MrQureshi said.
The federal minister said that bodies will be sent to the families onMonday.
We asked the families about the burial and six of the families want theirloved ones to be buried in Christchurch, while three bodies will be sent toPakistan, he added.