ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government officially responds over last minuteskipping of Kuala Lumpur Summit.
Pakistan clarified that it withdrew last-minute from a four-day conferenceheld in Kuala Lumpur recently as it needed to address concerns of “majorMuslim countries” about the possible division of the Ummah.
“In response to questions from the media, the Spokesperson stated thatPakistan did not participate in the KL Summit as time and efforts wereneeded to address the concerns of major Muslim countries regarding possibledivision in Ummah,” the Pakistani Foreign Office said in a statement onFriday.
Saudi Arabia had said its leaders were not attending the summit because itwas being held outside the aegis of the 57-member Organisation of IslamicCooperation based in Jeddah.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who along with his Malaysiancounterpart and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had been a prime moverbehind the summit, made a last-minute decision to withdraw from the meeting.