Kashmiris laud Pakistan’s OIC statement

LONDON:

The Kashmiris have lauded Pakistan's strong statement in the favour of the Kashmir issue at the 48th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), saying that Prime Minister Imran Khan "has shown a mirror to the Muslim bloc”.

The premier, while delivering an impassioned keynote address at the inaugural session of the summit, lamented that “We have failed both the Palestinians and the people of Kashmir.

I am sad to say that we have been able to make no impact at all”.

The premier said Western countries did "not take the OIC seriously" because "we are a divided house and those powers know it.

Applauding the stance taken at the OIC moot, President Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) United Kingdom (UK) Raja Fahim Kayani said the PM has “shown a mirror” to the Muslim on how diverging interests of member states of the OIC has led to unfulfillment of objectives of the Muslim world.

He urged the top Muslim bloc to "walk the talk on Kashmir”.

“The role of OIC is very important and significant if it acts. It is the world’s second-largest multi-national body comprising of 57 nations which means it can have a huge impact if it walks the talk.

“The division among the OIC members has led occupying nations like India and Israel to exploit this situation and cement their colonisation of Kashmir and Palestine,” Kayani added.

He said PM Khan was “right when he said OIC has failed Kashmiris.”

“Time is running fast and the inability of the OIC to act according to international law, UN and its own resolutions only raise questions about the feasibility of the organization,” Kayani said.

Calling for “strategy and actionable motion” on Kashmir by the OIC, Kayani said India earns more than around $34 billion from Gulf countries every year in remittances only.”

“This means gulf countries, which are all Muslim nations, have a huge influence on Indians but little do these gulf nations know that the money earned in their lands is misused against Muslims and Kashmiris by India,” President TeK UK added.

“This money lands in the coffers of fascist RSS and its lynchpin BJP which has wreaked havoc against Kashmiris and Muslims,” he said.

Kayani said the OIC must take notice of such money flow and “it could be well used to hold accountable for its war crimes and crimes against humanity inflicted on Indian Muslims and Kashmiris.”

"On ending the occupation of Kashmir by India, Kayani suggested that the OIC is in a “good position to move a motion against India at the UN and hold it accountable for genocide and war crimes.”

“There is need to move beyond statements and condemnations; our youth who are being subjugated by the Indian fascist military in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) look towards the OIC leadership for ending this illegal and inhuman occupation,” said Kayani, urging the OIC to take serious notice of aspirations of people of IIoJK.

"The struggle for the right to self-determination in IIoJK has a strong basis. It is mere action that is required from the OIC to free people from fascist Indian occupation.”

Kayani said Pakistan hosting the summit is a vote of confidence in the leadership and people of the country from the Muslim world.