India rejects OIC foreign ministers' resolution on J&K

New Delhi: India today strongly rejected as “factually incorrect and misleading references” made by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Jammu and Kashmir in its 39th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers. “We note with regret that the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has once again made factually incorrect and misleading references to matters internal to India, including the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part of India. We reject all such references/resolutions,” an official spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said.[caption id=“attachment_529627” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Growing focus on Jammu and Kashmir. Image courtesy PIB[/caption] He was responding to a question on resolutions adopted during the 39th Session of the CFMs of OIC held in Djibouti, Africa, last week. The OIC resolution said it is “noting with regret the Indian attempt to malign the legitimate Kashmiri freedom struggle by denigrating it as terrorism and appreciating that the Kashmiris condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations”. It also said that “taking note of the report which confirmed that there are 2156 unidentified bodies in massgraves in Indian occupied Kashmir and expressed concern that there is every possibility that the unidentified bodies buried in various unmarked graves at 38 places may contain bodies of enforced disappearance cases because 574 are unidentified”. PTI