Pakistan urges OIC to step up efforts to facilitate Kashmir's lasting solution.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K) would never accept the 'sinister Hindutva agenda' and called upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to step up efforts for facilitating a lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute.

'Kashmiri people would never accept the sinister Hindutva agenda of dispossessing them of their land, marginalizing them politically and economically, and depriving them of their distinct identity,' the Foreign Minister said in his address at the Emergency Virtual Meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, convened on Pakistan's call.

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu, Azerbaijan's FM Elmar Mammadyarov, FM of Niger KallaAnkourao, OIC Secretary General Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen and President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan attended the video meeting.

Qureshi said the oppressed people of IOJ and K, now more than ever, were counting upon OIC and the Muslim Ummah.

'The OIC must urge India to rescind its unilateral and illegal actions since 5 August 2019; implement the relevant UNSC resolutions to hold a UN-supervised plebiscite in IOJ and K, halt its blatant human rights violations and provide unhindered access to OIC, IPHRC, UN, human rights organizations and international media to investigate and report on the situation in the occupied territory,' he said.

Foreign Minister Qureshi drew the attention of the forum towards 'aggravated situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K)' with deteriorating human rights conditions in the Valley since the last year's meeting of the Contact Group held in New York.

He mentioned that the Indian leadership remained bent upon perpetuating India's illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the 'Hindutva' agenda of the RSS-BJP combined was deliberately targeting defenceless Kashmiris with unspeakable violence to break their will.

'Brute force is being used to crush the Kashmiris' quest for their fundamental rights - especially the right to self-determination enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council and OIC Resolutions,' he said.

He highlighted the suffering of Kashmiri people in shape of continuous lockdown, military siege, communications blockade, and unprecedented restriction, which were imposed following India's illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019.

He pointed out that to prevent the...