On Tuesday, the Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arindam Yagchi, criticized the visit of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Hussain Ibrahim Taha, to Azad Kashmir.
In a statement, Yagchi condemned the organization’s Secretary-General’s visit to Azad Kashmir last month and the statements he made during the visit.
The spokesman claimed that the Pakistani province of Azad Kashmir is “an integral part of India,” and that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation “has no right to make any statement about the region.”
“Unfortunately, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has become a spokesman for Pakistan,” he continued.
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It is noteworthy that the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation visited the Pakistani province of Azad Kashmir on November 11, last November.
It is noteworthy that the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan has a Muslim majority, with the exception of the southern regions where it is controlled by Hindus.
The Indian-controlled part of Kashmir includes resistance groups that have been fighting since 1989 against what it considers an “Indian occupation” of its regions, but India calls them “militants”.
And demands the people of the region to separate from India and join Pakistan, since the independence of the two countries from Britain in 1947, and their division of the Muslim-majority Kashmir.
