OIC stresses importance of complying with UNSC Resolutions and allowing no changes to demographic composition of J and K: FO Spokesperson.

ISLAMABAD/RIYADH -- Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui has said that the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has been following with deep concern the unilateral actions of 5 August 2019 and subsequent measures to alter the demographics of and undermine the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed territory as recognized by the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions.

In a statement, FO spokesperson said that the General Secretariat reaffirmed the importance of complying with international law and UN Security Council resolutions, considering the recent notification of 'Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules 2020' as baseless, running counter to international law and UN Security Council resolution 122.

Recalling the Islamic Summits' and the Council of Foreign Ministers' resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, the General Secretariat reaffirms its solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It also calls on the international community to gear up its efforts to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and as per the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

Meanwhile the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemns and categorically rejects the Indian Government's recently introduced 'Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020' which spells out new domicile rules causing 'demographic flooding' of non-natives in the IoJ and K. While the world is striving to fight a global pandemic of Covid-19, India has mischievously used the opportunity to illegally alter the demographic composition of Muslim majority in IoJ and K. However, as in the past, the people of Kashmir have squarely denounced this law as yet another illegal move and expressed their resolve to stand firm against the tyranny of Indian occupation.

Earlier concerns, expressed by the Commission, are proving to be real as series of actions undertaken by the Indian Government are designed at systematically paving the way for 'settlement colonialism' through forced demographic change, institutionalizing a system of domination over indigenous Muslim population by converting them into minority within their homeland and obviating the exercise of their right to self-determination. This is a manifest...