She was speaking in a TV interview where she also listed four aspects of the Malta summit that were important regarding Pakistan's perspective.
Dr Maleeha Lodhi said the Commonwealth was an important forum for North-South dialogue, comprising 53 nations from all five continents and representing one-third of the world's population.
Dilating on important aspects of the Summit she said, after a gap of six years, this was the first summit Pakistan attended after it was reinstated to the Councils of the Commonwealth in May 2004. It, therefore, reflected recognition of the country's democratic progress.
The second key aspect, she said, was that the Malta Summit provided an opportunity and a forum to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to apprise member countries of the aftermath and challenge created by the October 8 earthquake.
She recalled that at the Summit opening, the head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth, offered her and the other heads of states' condolences on the loss of life and the devastation.
Dr Lodhi said the Malta Summit took place on the eve of the Doha trade round in Hong Kong scheduled for December, which provided a useful-opportunity for a North-South dialogue on global trade issues. Dr Lodhi said this enabled Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to articulate and elaborate Pakistan's position on trade issues, reflecting the views of developing countries in general.
In this regard she said the Prime Minister called for a level playing field, urging developed countries to gradually withdraw agricultural subsidies. She explained that this was the core issue holding up an agreement on the Doha round of trade talks.
She said the other dimension of the Summit as reflected in the communiqué was the fact that enlightened moderation, as advocated by President Musharraf was accepted and recognised as a concept to build tolerance between cultures.
Asked by the interviewer what Pakistan had lost by being excluded from the Commonwealth for six years, Dr Maleeha Lodhi stressed that exclusion entailed mutual loss. She argued that the Commonwealth was incomplete without the presence of its second largest member and largest Muslim member state.