ISLAMABAD: Special envoy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Jammu and Kashmir Yousef Aldobeay has said the OIC will continue to support the right to tone- determination of the people of Kashmir.
The special envoy said that he’d prepare and present a report during the coming clerical meeting of the OIC on the situation in the region.
He expressed these views on Sunday while agitating the Kashmir situation with representatives of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) in Pakistan.
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Altaf Wani, Ghulam Mohammad Safi, Faiz Nakshbandi and Sheikh Abdul Mateen were part of the APHC delegation which met the OIC’s special envoy.
This is the alternate visit of the envoy to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. His visit last time to the AJK was salutary in that he’d the occasion to meet the Kashmiri leadership, Mr Aldobeay said.
He assured the delegation of Kashmiri leaders that the OIC would continue to extend support for the Kashmir cause.
In the coming days, the OIC envoy will get a first-hand account of the graveness of the situation in engaged Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control.
The Kashmir issue is analogous to the Palestine question, as mortal rights of the people of Kashmir, like those of Palestinians, are being violated and they’re facing the trouble of demographic change.
The envoy reiterated that the OIC had been supporting the right to tone- determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir ago long in agreement with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) judgments.
The foreign ministers in the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir had before extended support to Kashmiris during a meeting on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York in September.
After the meeting, which was chaired by OIC Secretary General Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, a common statement was issued.
The statement said the meeting bandied developments related to the Kashmir issue and OIC sweats to support the people of Kashmir in their struggle to gain their rights, including the right to tone- determination sanctioned by all statements issued by the Islamic Summit and the Council of Foreign Ministers, in addition to opinions of the UN and the Security Council since 1948.
The actors expressed their commitment to continue supporting the Kashmiri people to reach a continuing result that preserves their quality and rights. They supplicated for the soul of the late Kashmiri leader, Mr Ali Gilani.
The Contact Group called for the issue to be stressed at transnational forums, especially at the UN, to seek immediate action to ameliorate the mortal rights situation in held Kashmir.
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