An urgent meeting of OIC Foreign Ministers Council summoned on Pakistan and Turkey's call
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he has spoken to Turkish foreign minister and agreed to hold an urgent meeting of 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 New Zealand have met the families of the deceased. “We have established contact with the 10 families and are constantly in touch with them,” he said.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he has spoken to his counterpart in New Zealand. “The foreign minister said that New Zealand is a peace loving nation.”
He has expressed concern and said that the shooter was an Australian, Mr Qureshi said.
The federal minister said that bodies will be sent to the families on Monday.
We asked the families about the burial and six of the families want their loved ones to be buried in Christchurch, while three bodies will be sent to Pakistan, he added.
