India says OIC has no jurisdiction on Kashmir, slams Pakistan efforts to raise issue

OIC has no locus standi on internal affairs of India or the recent incidents on LoC, says spokesperson.


Aditi Phadnis February 08, 2013
Hundreds of Kashmiris staged an emotional demonstration, asking India, Pakistan to withdraw troops. PHOTO: AGENCIES/FILE

With some weariness, the government of India rejected all claims made by Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar at the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) about Kashmir.

Responding to questions about the statement made at the recently concluded OIC Contact Group meeting on Indian Kashmir held in Cairo, the official spokesperson said, "The OIC has no locus standi on matters concerning the internal affairs of India or the recent incidents on the LoC. We have already clarified that UMOGIP has no relevance in regard to the latter. The propagandist suggestions made in the foreign minister’s statement are neither new nor helpful".

In the past too, Pakistan’s efforts to raise the issue of Kashmir at the OIC have been rejected by India.

The OIC, in a joint statement at its 12th summit in Cairo, asked India to allow international human rights groups and humanitarian organisations to visit Jammu & Kashmir.

Khar had stressed the need to find a just and peaceful solution of the Kashmir dispute. The Secretary General OIC as well as foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia also extended their support to the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their statements.

The OIC had also implored the Indian government to carry out its own independent investigation into the discovery of mass graves in Indian Kashmir and to hold fair trials for those responsible for the crimes.

COMMENTS (83)

fawad | 11 years ago | Reply

@Raj - USA: as far as terrorists are concerned i must say that 'one persons freedom fighter is the other ones terrorist'. If india is so justified in its occupation of kashmir, why doesnt it allow a refrendum in kashmir? so that people of kashmir should decide about their fate. and i am sure if they are given this opertunity they will opt for pakistan, given the mal-treatment of muslims in india. Sharkh khan is an example.

Gujesh | 11 years ago | Reply

Indian muslims (i.e. including Kashmiri muslims) were insulted by OIC when their representative Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was expelled from a summit held in Rabat, at the behest of ZA Bhutto. Indian muslims have not forgotten it.

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