The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) on Sunday, due to a request from Pakistan, called an emergency meeting of its Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir on February 26, Dawn online reported.
“On the request of Islamic Republic of Pakistan a meeting of the Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir … will be held at the OIC General Secretariat” on Tuesday at 11 am, said a notice marked “urgent” sent to members of the contact group by the OIC secretariat in Jeddah, as per the report.
According to the notice, the meeting of the contact group will be held at the level of permanent representatives, the report said.
Citing sources, the report said that the meeting will review the actions taken by the Indian government in the aftermath of the attack on a CRPF convoy Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on February 14 which killed 49 personnel.
The contact group meeting will precede the 46th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, scheduled for March 1-2 in Abu Dhabi, as per the report.
Pertinently, External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj has been invited to address the inaugural plenary of the OIC foreign ministers meeting.
The OIC has consistently criticized human rights abuses in the conflict-ridden region of Kashmir.
Meanwhile,The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, on Sunday called the 49 CRPF armed personnel killed in an attack on their convoy in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on February 14 as ‘political victims’ and claimed that the “truth” will come out if National Security Advisor of India Ajit Doval was questioned, as per a report by PTI.
“If NSA Ajit Doval is investigated, then all the truth about the Pulwama terror attack will come out,” Thackeray said in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra, as per the report.
“At the time of the Pulwama attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy shooting for a film at Corbett National Park. Even after the news of the terror attack was flashed his shooting continued,” he said, the report stated.
(With inputs from Dawn)
