High-level Pak delegation to attend Munich Security Conference

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Hina Rabbani Khar among attendees

ISLAMABAD:

The Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt General Nadeem Anjum, is set to attend the upcoming Munich Security Conference.

The annual security forum, which kicks off in the German city on February 17, will be attended by over 45 heads of state and government, as well as nearly 100 ministers from across the globe.

In 2018, then-army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa also attended the Munich Security Conference and delivered a speech on "Jihadist and Caliphate".

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar are also attending the conference.

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Bilawal will also have bilateral meetings with top diplomats and efforts are being made to schedule a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The Munich Security Conference (MSC), which began in 1963, focuses on security and military issues.

The conference will also host the largest delegation from the United States ever recorded, including over a third of the US Senate, and the heads of many important international organisations, such as, the UN, NATO, and the EU.

The main programme of the MSC will be complemented by hundreds of side events and bilateral meetings.