New Delhi: In a significant diplomatic development India has invited Pakistanto participate in the informal WTO ministerial meeting taking place in Delhi on March 19-20, IndianExpress reported.
According to report India has invited Pakistan’s Commerce Minister, Pervaiz Malik to the meeting and, Malik is said to have confirmed his attendance.
The diplomatic development comes after secret back-channel negotiations between the two national security advisors, Ajit Doval and Nasser Janjua, during late-December and also in wake of global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) threat to Pakistan to stop using terrorism as an instrument of state policy or be isolated, IE reported.