The OIC general secretary also renewed support to the right of self-determination for Kashmiri people and said that it was an worldwide and legitimate issue.
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Ignoring India’s offer to hold talks on cross-border terrorism, Pakistan on Friday invited Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to Islamabad by the end of this month to discuss Kashmir dispute “as per the UN Security Council Resolutions”.
Expressing concern at the “atrocities” being committed by the government forces in Kashmiri with impunity, Madani said OIC would continue to monitor human rights situation in the Valley.
Human rights violations in India-held Kashmir are not an internal matter of the Indian state, said Iyad Amin Madani, secretary-general of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Kashmir has been gripped with violence since July 9, a day after security forces killed top militant, Burhan Wani, in a gunfight.
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.
After getting the support from its neighbour Bangladesh, India is said to have got the backing on Afghanistan, too on it views about human rights situation in the restive Pakistan province of Balochistan.
“The global community has the role to play in this regard”, he said, adding the world must realize that human rights violations should be addressed promptly.
He said the peace would return to Jammu and Kashmir in particular and south Asian region in general only after the Kashmir issue is treated as a “political issue” and India and Pakistan initiate peace talks to resolve it “permanently”. “But after the partition, India forcibly sent Army to Jammu and Kashmir”.
While dismissing fears that India’s newly-articulated support for the Baloch cause would trigger a proxy war in the region, Karzai said that the Pakistani establishment needed to see the gravity of the situation that has led to large-scale violence and mass killings. “I want to change that”, Modi said on Monday.
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The Foreign Secretary had also said that he is looking forward to discussing with his Pakistani counterpart the earliest possible vacation of Pakistan illegal Occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
