Islamabad: Against the backdrop of Pakistan's flip-flop on the issue of granting the MFN status to India, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday held consultations with the top civil and military officials in Islamabad on the dialogue process with New Delhi.
Khar "consulted all stakeholders on foreign policy issues, including the resumed dialogue process with India" during a meeting held at the Foreign Ministry, an official statement said.
The meeting was "part of regular consultations", it said.
The statement did not give details of what transpired during the discussions or the names of those who attended the meeting.
According to media reports, the meeting was attended by ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Defence Secretary Syed Athar Ali, Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood and Interior Secretary KM Siddique Akbar.
Lt Gen Mohammad Asif from the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee's headquarters and Lt Gen Waheed Arshad from General Headquarters too attended the meeting, the reports said.
The meeting was held in the wake of a Cabinet meeting that authorised the Commerce Ministry to take steps for the "normalisation of trade relations between Pakistan and India".
Information Minister Firdous Awan had announced after the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the Cabinet had unanimously approved a move to grant the Most Favoured Nation status to India.
However, a statement issued subsequently by the Foreign Office quoted its spokesperson Tehmina Janjua as saying that the Cabinet had only "unanimously decided in principle to according MFN to India, which both sides will have to work towards in further engagements by the Commerce Secretaries".
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