Islamabad: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to step up its efforts to facilitate solution to the Kashmir issue.
“The people of Jammu and Kashmir, now more than ever, count on the OIC and the Muslim ummah,” Qureshi was quoted as saying by Pak media.
“The OIC must urge India to rescind its unilateral and illegal actions since August 5, 2019, implement the relevant UNSC resolutions to hold a UN-supervised plebiscite, halt its blatant human rights violations and provide unhindered access to […] human rights organisations and international media to investigate and report on the situation in the Kashmir.”
The Pak foreign minister reportedly expressed these views while addressing a virtual meeting meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Radio Pakistan, the meeting was held at a ministerial level to discuss the worsening situation in the Kashmir valley.
During today’s meeting, the Pak foreign minister also urged the group to lend support for actively raising the issue at international forums.
Qureshi reportedly began his speech by stating that the last time the group met was in New York on September 25, 2019.
“Since then, the situation has further aggravated. It is marked by gross and systemic violations of human rights, and an escalating threat to regional peace and security.
“The current Indian leadership remains bent upon perpetuating India’s illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. The ‘Hindutva’ agenda of the RSS-BJP combine is deliberately targeting defenceless Kashmiris with unspeakable violence to break their will.”
He reportedly said that Pakistan has consistently been raising the issue with the OIC and the international community about India’s “real intentions to change the demographic structure [of the occupied valley] and further disempower and disenfranchise the Kashmiris”.
“It is highly reprehensible that while the world community is grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, India remains busy intensifying its brutalisation of the Kashmiri people.”
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