New Delhi: India on Friday rebuffed Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar’s statement on taking the recent incidents at LoC to the Organisation of Islamic Countries(OIC), saying the OIC had no business to interfere in matters relating to LoC or internal affairs of the country.
It said that the attempt to internationalise the issue would not be helpful.
Ms Khar while addressing the recently concluded meeting of the Organisation’s contact group on Jammu and Kashmir had said that she would welcome an OIC fact-finding mission to probe allegations of ceasefire violations made by India against her country.
Replying to a question on the issue, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said here, “The OIC has no locus standi on matters concerning the internal affairs of India or the recent incidents on the LoC.”
“We have already clarified that UMOGIP has no relevance in regard to the latter. The propagandist suggestions made in the Foreign Minister’s statement are neither new nor helpful,” he said.
Pakistani troops had killed two Indian soldiers in a ceasefire violation in the Mendhar sector in Jammu and Kashmir last month, and brutalised the body of one of them, following which India had lodged a strong protest with the country and told Islamabad that if it went on like this, the dialogue process between the two countries would suffer.
Pakistan had then taken the issue to the United Nations’ Military Observers Group on India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).
However, India said the there was no relevance of this group after the conclusion of the Simla Agreement under which the two sides committed to resolve all their issues peacefully and bilaterally. (UNI)