India Rebukes OIC for Ignoring Pahalgam Attack, Echoing Pakistan’s Line on Kashmir

🔹 NEWS DROP — PETAL 010
📅 May 7, 2025
🎯 GS Paper 2 | International Relations – Multilateral Forums & India’s Global Stance

🌀 Intro Whisper

When silence greets terror and partisanship veils diplomacy, India speaks — not in anger, but in sovereignty.

🔍 Key Highlights

• India strongly criticised the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for:
  • Failing to mention the Pahalgam terror attack in its recent communiqué.
  • Repeating Pakistan’s narrative on Jammu & Kashmir.
• The Ministry of External Affairs described OIC’s stand as “factually incorrect and politically motivated.”

🕌 About the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

• Founded: 1969, following the Al-Aqsa Mosque arson
• Headquarters: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Membership: 57 Muslim-majority countries
• Mandate:
  • “Collective voice of the Muslim world”
  • Foster Islamic solidarity, political cooperation, and socio-economic development

🏛️ Key Organs of OIC

• Islamic Summit: Heads of State meet every 3 years
• Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM): Annual, primary decision-making body
• General Secretariat: Implements decisions

⚖️ Voting Mechanism

• Quorum: Two-thirds of members present
• Decision-making: Preferably by consensus, or two-thirds majority
• Membership:
  • Full Membership: Requires CFM consensus
  • Observer Status: Similar procedure

🇮🇳 India’s Engagement with OIC

• India is not a member, though it has the third-largest Muslim population globally.
• In 2019, India’s External Affairs Minister was invited for the first time to OIC Foreign Ministers’ Meet.
• Despite repeated attempts by Pakistan to internationalise Kashmir at OIC, India asserts Kashmir as an internal matter.

🧭 GS Paper Mapping

GS1: Geography – Islamic World Regions

GS2: International Relations – OIC, India’s Multilateral Diplomacy

GS2: Indian Polity – Sovereignty, Constitutional Position on J&K

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