On Tuesday (today), Prime Minister Imran Khan gave the keynote address at the 48th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at Parliament House in Islamabad.
While talking about the OIC’s role, he said, “We have failed both the Palestinians and the people of Kashmir. I am sad to say that we have been able to make no impact at all.”
The premier said Western countries did “not take the OIC seriously” because “we are a divided house and those powers know it.
“We (Muslims) are 1.5 billion people and yet our voice to stop this blatant injustice is insignificant.”
PM Imran stated that international law was on the side of the Palestinians and Kashmiris, and that UN Security Council decisions supported the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination through a referendum.
However, he claims that the international community never assured that such a right was granted, he said.
He declared this in response to India’s removal of occupied Kashmir’s special status in August 2019. He said, “Nothing happened because they (India) feels no pressure.”
“They feel we can just [pass] a resolution and then [go] back to our usual business.”
Human rights atrocities, such as the “daylight robbery in Palestine,” would continue unless the OIC was united on basic issues, he said,
He cautioned that unless the OIC was united on core issues, human rights abuses would keep happening such as the “daylight robbery in Palestine”.
“The only hope I have is that for the first time because of social media, there is awareness in Western countries. Much more than the OIC, it is the mobile phone and the spread of information of the injustices being done to the Palestinians … at the moment, that is the best way to protect them, not us.”
He said India was changing the demography in occupied Kashmir by bringing in settlers from outside but “no one has pushed about it because they think we are ineffective.”
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