The Ministry of Exterior Affairs has rejected the “unwarranted and factually incorrect” references to India on the OIC Council of Overseas Ministers’ Assembly. Slamming Islamabad, the MEA issued an announcement and said that the OIC’s “repeated failure” to acknowledge the specter of terrorism emanating from Pakistan, most lately evidenced by the terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, “displays a wilful disregard for info and the worldwide consensus on the combat towards terrorism.”
It additionally emphasised, “Statements, pushed by Pakistan, which has turned terrorism into statecraft, replicate the continued misuse of the OIC platform for slim political ends.”
OIC’s J-Okay Remarks
“The OIC has no locus standi to touch upon India’s inner affairs, together with Jammu & Kashmir, which is an integral and sovereign a part of India — a truth enshrined within the Indian Structure and irreversibly settled,” MEA added.
“The OIC ought to replicate deeply on the perils of permitting Pakistan’s propaganda to hijack and politicize its agenda. Some other course can solely undermine the OIC’s credibility and relevance.
The feedback made by Pakistan on the OIC assembly are nothing greater than a determined try and deflect worldwide consideration from its personal appalling file of state-sponsored terrorism, minority persecution and sectarian violence, aside from failure of governance,” the Ministry elaborated.
MEA On Pakistan
MEA’s assertion additionally rejected Pakistan’s baseless allegation of “unprovoked and unjustified navy aggression.”
India’s Operation Sindoor, in response to the Pahalgam terror assault, was a “exact and bonafide act of self-defence towards terrorist camps working from Pakistani territory.”
“It’s absurd for Pakistan to talk of focusing on solely Indian navy installations when its retaliatory makes an attempt not solely failed however recklessly endangered civilian lives and property and ended up inflicting a number of deaths and accidents among the many civilian inhabitants,” the assertion added.
Pakistan’s ‘Irony’
MEA additionally slammed Islamabad, stating, “Additionally it is ironic that Pakistan, a rustic with an abysmal human rights file and a historical past of sheltering, breeding and empowering terrorists, ought to lecture others on counter-terrorism and human rights.”
Operation Sindoor
The tensions between India and Pakistan had been escalating for some time after the Pahalgam terror assault of April 22.
Following the assault, whereas New Delhi took a number of punitive measures towards Islamabad, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor on Might 7, focusing on terrorist infrastructure websites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).
After this, Pakistan additionally launched a sequence of drone and missile assaults on Indian territory; nevertheless, a ceasefire was declared on Might 10 after Pakistan’s Director Normal of Navy Operations (DGMO) contacted his Indian counterpart.