WASHINGTON, Jan 28: The Commonwealth could review Pakistan’s suspension after the country’s parliamentary elections next month, the 53-nation group’s secretary general, Don McKinnon, said here on Monday.

An evaluation on the return of democratic government and the rule of law in Pakistan will be made by a Commonwealth ministerial team invited to the country after the February 18 elections, he said.

“The fact that they are inviting us to come back after the elections is a very strong point,” Don McKinnon told AFP in an interview in Washington.

During their trip to Pakistan, representatives of the Malaysia-led Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, which decide on membership suspension issues, would “want to see what has happened” since the suspension.—AFP

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