On Wednesday, Pakistan raised the issue of Kashmir at the OIC Contact Group meeting held on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
India has called the move as completely ‘unwarranted’, reported the Press Trust of India. India while condeming the move said that, the raising of the issue by the group as well as its members was unwarranted as it is related to the internal matters of India.
“We always note with regret that the matter which is very internal to Indian affairs was again discussed at the OIC,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar told reporters when asked about Pakistan raising the issue at the OIC meeting.
He said India rejects such references to a matter which is very internal to it.
“We have said in the past that OIC has no locus standi to comment on India’s internal affairs” and it is completely unwarranted for OIC as well as its member countries to discuss matters related to India’s internal affairs in any multi-organisation set up.
When asked about Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi also raising the Kashmir issue in his bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Kumar said Islamabad has been doing this for a long time.
