Pakistan, Maldives parliamentary groups discuss closer people-to-people ties
Delegations from the two countries' parliamentary friendship groups met to strengthen contacts between their peoples, UrduPoint reported.
Delegations of the Pakistan-Maldives Parliamentary Friendship Group held a meeting and discussed strengthening people-to-people contacts between the two countries, UrduPoint reported on 22 September.
The outlet described Pakistan and the Maldives as brotherly countries but gave no venue, date or names of participants in the headline available to Skardu Times. No further details of the discussion were immediately available.
Parliamentary friendship groups are made up of lawmakers from the National Assembly and their counterparts in other parliaments; they typically meet to maintain regular political contact. The report did not say whether any agreement was reached during the meeting.
Skardu Times could not independently verify the meeting.
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