India, Pakistan trade barbs over ‘OIC Resolution’ on Kashmir

New Delhi rejects the OIC resolution, which slammed India’s actions in Kashmir, as Islamabad calls India’s reactions ‘untenable’. Pakistan and India have traded barbs over a “unanimous resolution” passed by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that criticised New Delhi’s decision to strip Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status last August. The OIC resolution, a copy of which Al Jazeera has obtained, rejected India’s Kashmir decision and demanded that “India rescind its illegal step”. [The OIC] rejects the illegal and unilateral actions by India on August 5, 2019, to change…

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ASEAN coalition supports OIC communique on Kashmir Situation

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has expressed full support to the communique of the recent OIC Contact Group Virtual Emergency meeting on the situation of Indian occupied Kashmir. In a letter to OIC, ASEAN coalition pointed out that the situation on the ground in Jammu Kashmir is dire and needs immediate attention to alleviate the sufferings of the Kashmiri civilians. It stated that since the August 2019 lockdown, there is no breathing space for the Kashmiris as the BJP Indian government has escalated its grip on the disputed…

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OIC, Imran Khan criticize India over the treatment of Muslims

In recent months, Khan has repeatedly criticised the Indian government’s attitude towards the country’s Muslim minority and the external affairs ministry has pushed back against his remarks. Pakistan’s top leadership and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday criticised what they described as the deliberate targeting of Muslims by the Indian government against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Imran Khan followed up on tweets by the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the OIC on the issue and compared the Indian government’s treatment of Muslims to…

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Raise voice against ‘Atrocities’ in Kashmir: Pakistan to UN, OIC

Strongly condemning killing of seven civilians by government forces in Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that “only dialogue and not violence and killings will resolve the Kashmir conflict”. “We will raise issue of India’s human rights violations in Kashmir and demand UNSC to fulfill its J&K plebiscite commitment,” he said. Earlier, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi called on global human rights organisations to take notice of the “atrocities by Indian forces in Kashmir”, saying he was hopeful that the groups would…

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Civil Society to send a memorandum to UN Chief, OIC

Amid growing clamour against proposed abrogation of Article 35-A, Kashmir’s civil society members on Friday passed a resolution to oppose the move tooth and nail. They decided to send a memorandum to UN secretary-general, all permanent members of UNSC and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries. The civil society members have also decided to hold a silent sit-in protest at Lal Chowk in next few days. Addressing a roundtable conference on Article-35-A here, senior lawyer Zaffar Shah said the writ petition against Article 35-A filed by NGO “We the Citizens”…

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Irans Mashhad named cultural capital of Muslim world

  The holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran has been officially introduced as the “cultural capital of the Muslim world” for the Asia region for 2017. In 2011, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), which is associated with the Organization of Islamic Conference, launched the initiative for three cities to be named each year as such capitals throughout the countries in Asia, the Arab region, and the African region, which house considerable Muslim populations. On Tuesday, Mashhad was awarded the title by Deputy Director General of the ISESCO…

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