The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s largest bloc of Muslim countries, on Saturday said that Kashmir is “not an internal problem of India but an global issue”, according to a top Pakistani official.
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At a dinner hosted by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Yaqoob, the OIC secretary-general underlined the need for India’s engagement with Pakistan through a dialogue process towards a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue.
The press conference followed a meeting between the adviser and the OIC secretary general in which they held discussions focusing on a number of challenges facing the Muslim world, particularly on the situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir and peace in Afghanistan.
Pakistan on Monday had invited India for talks on Kashmir, saying it is the “international obligation” of both the countries to resolve the issue.
Meanwhile, a senior RSS functionary on Wednesday said, India is “morally right” to rake up the Balochistan and Gilgit issue and claimed that Pakistan treats its own people like “third grade citizens” and uses bombs to crush muhajirs and provincial Independence movements. While the OIC has raised its voice for the stone-throwing Kashmiri people, we expect that the organisation, founded back in 1969 for promoting cooperation amongst the Ummah, will spare no effort to explicitly expose the Indian atrocities at different world platforms.
Bollywood actor Praesh Rawal tweeted: “Digvijay Singh ji calls J&K as “India occupied Kashmir”. He further said the party believed there are serious human rights violations in Balochistan and PoK.
As many as 65 people, including two police personnel, have been killed and several thousand injured in the clashes. Indian allegations against Pakistan of creating unrest in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has given India an excuse to dismiss the legitimate anger of the Kashmiris, and declare it to be the work of Pakistan.
Deliberations should also focus on denying safe haven, shelters and support to terrorists in Pakistan who have escaped Indian law, Jaishankar said in his letter. “I want to change that”, Modi said on Monday.
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According to the Foreign Office, the United Nations chief, in a letter written in response to the one Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sent to him, condemned the loss of life in the ongoing unrest in Indian Kashmir and offered his good offices to both Pakistan and India for the resolution of the long-running row.
