NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Monday rejected remarks made during the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of foreign ministers' meeting on Jammu and Kashmir, saying the organisation had no locus standi to comment on matters that were strictly internal to India.In a statement, the ministry said the references to India during the OIC meeting were malicious, biased and false, and had been orchestrated by Pakistan."We categorically reject the anti-India references in the resolutions of the OIC Council of foreign ministers' meeting held in Baghdad on October 17-18, 2026. The references to India are malicious, biased, and false, and have been orchestrated by Pakistan. We are disappointed that the OIC has once again allowed itself to be misused by Pakistan for its bigoted agenda," the MEA said."As we have said in the past, the OIC has no locus standi whatsoever to comment on matters that are strictly internal to India. The Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of India. Politically motivated propaganda can never alter this reality. Over the past years since the abrogation of Art 370, Jammu & Kashmir has seen significant economic growth and benefits accruing directly to its people through infrastructure development, tourism and connectivity.
This is in stark contrast to the situation in PoJK, where Pakistan has unleashed violence, repression and brutality on civilian protesters, killing scores of them, including women and children. No amount of media blackout has been able to hide these grave violations of human rights," it added.
The MEA further said that the only issues related to Jammu and Kashmir that remained to be addressed were Pakistan vacating areas under its "illegal and forcible occupation" and ceasing its continued support for cross-border terrorism."Other fabricated and hostile references against India in the OIC resolutions, including insinuations related to Islamophobia, are nothing but a desperate attempt by Pakistan to divert international attention from its own appalling record of minority persecution and sectarian violence, apart from governance failure and political instability," it said."The OIC's repeated endorsement of patently malicious propaganda and narratives peddled by Pakistan raises serious questions about its credibility and integrity. We hope its members would do better and reform this organisation," it added.
Rohitashwa Ranjan is a digital journalist with The Times of India, where he decodes Indian politics as a carefully staged production with scripts, subtext and everything behind. His stories track elections, party dynamics and the things that often are buried beneath the headlines. When not parsing vote shares or alliances, he is usually reading between the lines, where the real story tends to reside.