ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday rejected India’s statement on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Resolution on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, a statement from the Foreign Office said.
A day earlier, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) “strongly” rejected OIC’s criticism of its Kashmir policy, according to The Hindu.
“We strongly and categorically reject the factually incorrect, gratuitous and unwarranted references to India in resolutions adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the 47th CFM Session in Niamey, Republic of Niger, held on 27-28 November 2020,” said the publication, citing Indian MEA.
The unanimously adopted resolution — at the 47th Session of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), held in Niamey, Niger, on November 28 — is the collective voice of the Muslim Ummah, said the FO.
The statement from the Foreign Office highlighted that the OIC is the second-largest international organisation after the United Nations with 57 members and five observer states.
“Jammu and Kashmir is one of the oldest internationally recognised disputes on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),” the statement said.
It said that the matter remains unresolved because of India’s intransigence and unwillingness to implement relevant UNSC resolutions and its solemn commitments made to Pakistan, the Kashmiris, and the international community.
“The latest OIC resolution is another forceful repudiation of India’s completely flimsy and legally untenable contention that Jammu and Kashmir is its ‘internal’ matter,” the statement said.