India Rejects OIC Kashmir Resolutions, Accuses Pakistan of Driving Them

India’s Ministry of External Affairs issued a sharp response on Monday to resolutions adopted at a Baghdad meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a group of 57 Muslim-majority countries. It called the references to India “malicious, biased and false” and accused Pakistan of arranging them. The ministry said the OIC had again let itself be used for Pakistan’s “bigoted agenda.” ^1,5

The Baghdad meeting ran on October 17 and 18. After it ended, India said the OIC had no standing to comment on matters it considers internal. It repeated that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral parts of India. The ministry pointed to infrastructure, tourism and transport links as signs of economic progress in Jammu and Kashmir since India removed Article 370’s special status in 2019. The OIC adopted the Baghdad Declaration and other resolutions at the meeting. ^1,5

Those claims about progress sit alongside a sharply different account of conditions across the border. India accused Pakistan of using violence against civilian protesters in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying scores of people, including women and children, had been killed. It also alleged a media blackout had failed to hide human rights abuses. These are claims made by the Indian government, not findings independently confirmed in the reports. The wider dispute concerns competing claims over Kashmir, which India and Pakistan have contested for decades. ^1,5

That dispute now extends to the OIC’s references to Islamophobia and Kashmir. India called them fabricated and hostile, and said they distracted from Pakistan’s record on minority persecution, sectarian violence and political instability. It also questioned the group’s credibility and urged members to reform it. India’s stated next steps remain a demand that Pakistan leave areas it occupies and stop supporting cross-border terrorism. The Baghdad resolutions have not changed either country’s position. ^1,2