NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on October 19, Monday strongly rejected the anti-India references in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting held in Baghdad over the weekend. The MEA outrightly slammed the misleading and fabricated statements, calling them “malicious, biased, false”. India also stated that the OIC had once again allowed itself to be misused by Pakistan for its “bigoted agenda”.
Our statement on anti-India references at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Baghdad ⬇️
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MEA rejects anti-India references
The Ministry of External Affairs said, “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”.
Reaffirming India’s clear and consistent position, the MEA underlined that the OIC had no locus standi to comment on matters that were strictly internal to India and declared that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were integral and inalienable parts of India. “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 and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of India”, MEA asserted hailing the sovereignty and integrity of J&K to India.
Slams OIC as tool of Pakistan’s propaganda
MEA statement further added that the politically motivated propaganda of Pakistan can never alter the reality. Over the past years since the abrogation of Art 370, Jammu and Kashmir has seen significant economic growth and benefits accruing directly to its people through infrastructure development, tourism and connectivity”, the MEA statement mentioned.
Contrasting the positive transformation in India’s Union Territories with the ground situation across the border, the MEA pointed out that Pakistan had unleashed violence, repression and brutality on civilian protesters in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and that no amount of media blackout had been able to hide the “grave violations” of human rights.
“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. The only issues related to Jammu and Kashmir that remain to be addressed are Pakistan vacating from areas under its illegal and forcible occupation and ceasing its continued support to cross-border terrorism”, the MEA said.
India rebukes OIC’s comments on Islamophobia
“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”, MEA statement thus exposed the fragile state and hidden illicit agenda of Pakistan.
The MEA noted that the OIC’s repeated endorsement of “patently malicious propaganda and narratives” peddled by Pakistan raises serious questions about credibility and integrity of OIC. MEA thus expressed hope that its members would reform the organisation and retain credibility rather than acting as mouthpiece of Pakistan’s propaganda against India.
(With Inputs from ANI)
