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Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani on Wednesday wrote a letter to Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and demanded to withdraw its invitation extended to India for attending the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting to be held in the UAE.

In the letter addressed to heads, speakers and presiding officers of parliaments of member countries of the OIC, Sanjrani said that the people, government and Parliament of Pakistan are highly appreciative of the historic and continuing support by the OIC for the innocent people of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK), facing unprecedented brutalities of Indian security forces.

However, a recent decision to invite Indian foreign minister as the guest of honour at the 46th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of OIC to be held in Abu Dhabi on March 1-2, 2019, has raised genuine apprehensions and critical voices among the people of Pakistan and their elected representatives, he added.

He said in his letter that the OIC countries enjoy cordial relations with Pakistan over the years not only at bilateral level but also at multilateral level especially at the OIC, which is the most prominent platform of the joint voice and brotherhood of Islamic countries.

He said that Islamic brotherhood feels the pain of the sufferings of Muslims across the world beyond any geographic boundaries.

"In the same vein, the plight of the Muslim brethren of the IOK could not escape our attention and consideration," he said.

"You will share the concern on grave human rights violations and state terrorism in the IOK at the hands of Indian security forces for well over 70 years now."

He said that thousands of innocent Kashmiri Muslims including elderly, women and children have been killed, countless youth have been abducted and an even number of civilians have been incapacitated by brutal use of force like pellet guns.

Sanjrani said that India continues its occupation of the disputed territory by denying the Kashmiris their right to self-determination under the UN Security Council resolutions.

Pakistan has continued to provide diplomatic, moral and political support to Kashmiris in their just struggle for freedom and it is a matter of satisfaction that brother Islamic countries and OIC have also raised serious concern on human rights violations in the IOK from time to time, he added. He said that he is confident that the leadership of member countries of OIC would play an effective role in withdrawal of the invitation extended to India.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019


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