The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has applauded Pakistan's return to its rightful place in the Commonwealth and called it a "most welcome development" which would provide even closer relations between Islamabad and London.
In a letter to Mushahid Hussain Syed, Chairman of Senate Foreign and Kashmir Affairs Committee, the Chairman of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Donald Anderson, also commended Pakistan's perspective given to his committee which visited Pakistan in May last and hoped it would help his colleagues reach conclusions about the future role of the UK.
The letter was placed on Senate table here on Friday along with a detailed report on the dialogue which Pakistani and British legislators had on a variety of bilateral, regional and international issues that included terrorism and Iraq.
In an Executive Summary appended with the Report, Mushahid said that he and his colleagues had explained to the visiting Britons that "democracy was the destiny" of Pakistan and that the latter expected greater understanding from its friends in this direction.