FM Qureshi felicitates Maldives on rejoining Commonwealth.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday felicitated the government and the people of the Maldives on rejoining the Commonwealth.

Taking to Twitter, he said: 'We are delighted that Maldives has rejoined the Commonwealth family.'

'Pakistan looks forward to working closely with Maldives to achieve our shared objectives of peace,

development and prosperity.'

Commonwealth nations on Saturday welcomed back the Maldives 40 months after it angrily quit the organisation over criticism of its human rights record under strongman president Abdulla Yameen.

The move is a new step in ending the international isolation that the Indian Ocean holiday destination suffered under Yameen's rule from 2015 to 2018. The...