OIC rakes up Kashmir, stays mum on protests in PoK

Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], October 29 (ANI): The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) erstwhile again raked up Jammu and Kashmir successful a statement, arsenic it advocated for people's 'right to self-determination'.

The OIC General Secretariat released a connection connected Monday successful which they reiterated 'full solidarity with the radical of Jammu and Kashmir successful their morganatic quest for the close to self-determination'.

'The General Secretariat, successful accordance with the applicable resolutions of the Islamic Summit and the Council of Foreign Ministers, reaffirms its unwavering and afloat enactment for the radical of Jammu and Kashmir successful their conscionable conflict for their cardinal quality rights, including their inalienable close to self-determination. It besides urges India to respect the cardinal quality rights of the radical of Jammu and Kashmir,' the connection read.

The connection further read, 'The General Secretariat besides stresses the request for a last colony of the Jammu and Kashmir quality successful accordance with applicable UN Security Council resolutions and reiterates its telephone connected the planetary assemblage to guarantee the implementation of these resolutions.'

However, the OIC stay mum connected galore issues similar the Pakistan onslaught successful Kabul, the sidesplitting of Afghan cricketers by Pakistan and the amerciable disappearances of Baloch radical by Pakistani authorities. The OIC besides failed to instrumentality announcement of the caller protests successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir against the Shehbaz Sharif government.

Earlier, European writer and adept connected West Asia affairs, Michael Arizanti, has sharply criticised the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab states for turning a unsighted oculus to killings successful Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), accusing planetary powers and Islamic nations of 'shameful hypocrisy' successful ignoring authorities unit against Kashmiri Muslims.

In a blog published successful the Times of Israel, Arizanti compared the muted effect to civilian deaths successful PoK with planetary outrage implicit Gaza, questioning wherefore 'the decease of a Palestinian successful Gaza is simply a planetary headline, but the decease of a Kashmiri Muslim successful Muzaffarabad is simply a footnote.'

'The OIC, truthful speedy to contented statements against India whenever an incidental occurs successful Jammu and Kashmir, has not uttered a azygous connection astir the massacre successful PoK. Not one,' helium wrote. 'Where are the imams, the scholars, the ministers who thunder astir Gaza each Friday? The hypocrisy is arsenic transparent arsenic it is shameful.'

At slightest 10 radical were killed and much than 100 injured arsenic Pakistani forces opened occurrence connected protesters demanding affordable energy and flour successful Muzaffarabad, Dheerkot, Rawalakot and Mirpur, Arizanti noted.

'The massacre of Muslim civilians successful PoK has hardly stirred a whisper. The selective outrage is deafening,' Arizanti wrote, accusing some Western and Islamic nations of treble standards. (ANI)