FM stresses need for expanding economic and commercial ties between Pakistan and Niger.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a meeting with his Niger counterpart Kalla Ankouraou and stressed the need for expanding economic and commercial ties between the two countries.

He held the meeting with his Niger counterpart on the sidelines of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting in Niger.

Thanking Niger for its principled stance on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, the Foreign Minister apprised him about the worsening human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He particularly mentioned India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August last year, and subsequent steps to alter the demographic structure of the occupied territory, in violation of...