OIC Contact Group to hold emergency moot

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ISLAMABAD: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir will hold an emergency foreign ministerial meeting via video conference today (Monday) to discuss the latest situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The meeting will bring together the foreign ministers of the Jammu and Kashmir Contact Group member states: Azerbaijan, Niger, Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the Jeddah-based OIC said in a statement over Twitter.

“The meeting is part of a series of continuous Jammu and Kashmir Contact Group meetings to address the issue,” said OIC Secretary General Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen.

In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he will be apprising the foreign ministers of the member states on the prevailing situations in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

“From the firing incident on security forces in Waziristan to the unprovoked ceasefire violations on the Line of Control (LoC), India does not like peace in Pakistan,” Qureshi said, adding that New Delhi also does not want peace and stability in Afghanistan.

He said that the BJP government is under immense pressure, as questions are being raised over the disgrace it met in Ladakh in confrontation with the Chinese troops.

He warned that India can mobilize the terrorists’ sleeper cells in different parts of Pakistan to divert attention from the questions it is facing within its own country.

He said that similar incident have also taken place in Karachi,

He further said that India can also increase ceasefire violations along the LoC.