The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group will convene at London on 12 May to deliberate whether Pakistan should be allowed reentry into the 53-nation grouping. Pakistan was suspended after its President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency on the country the previous year. The secretary general of the Commonwealth Kamalesh Sharma is presently in Uganda for an official trip. But before Sharma left for the tour, he remarked that he was confident that Pakistan will be re-admitted soon. 

 

It was on 22 November 2007 that Pakistan was suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth, after Emergency was imposed on the country earlier the same month. At that time, the CMAG said it would keep en eye on the development in Pakistan post the conduction of general elections that happened on 18 February this year. Following the election, a new government was set up in Islamabad. The Commonwealth Secretariat also said it will review political developments in the Fiji Islands that was suspended in December 2006 following a military coup.