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Following the Turkish newspaper report, Pakistan's Foreign Office issued a brief statement saying Islamabad did not participate in the summit because time and efforts were needed to address the concerns of major Muslim countries.
It rejected as "speculative and misleading" a media report which claimed that the institutional differences led to the country's embarrassment.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while speaking with media persons this week, insisted that the decision was taken in the best national interest and looking at the larger picture.
Saudi Arabia, however, dismissed the Turkish newspaper's claim as "baseless" and insisted that its relationship with Pakistan was beyond the realm of threats.
The Saudi embassy in a statement had also clarified that Riyadh neither threatened nor stopped Islamabad from attending the summit.
The report said that sources in the Foreign Office, nevertheless, conceded that Pakistan's decision to stay away from the summit stemmed from the Saudi reservations.
Apart from discrediting Pakistan, the incident also sparked a great deal of criticism in Islamabad about Riyadh, and the visit of the foreign minister seems an effort to address the concerns in Pakistan, The Express Tribune reported.
Saudi Arabia and UAE extended financial support to the government of Prime Minister Khan to deal with the balance of payment crisis last year.
This fiscal support and presence of millions of Pakistanis in both countries, who send an annual $9 billion in remittances, are considered to be a decisive factor in Pakistan preferring Riyadh over the summit, it said.
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