Saudi Arabia unwilling to back OIC ministers’ meeting on Kashmir

[RoadRunner401]

Lol ...

This guy is still arab apologist.

Picture is worth a 1000 words here is his latest pick.

 

[Rollno21]

Not really

Hindutva India is completely utterly unrepresentative of Indian Muslims

Indian Muslims need their own voice

And I agree they should have one, a voice that can speak to the Muslim world and wider world on behalf of Indian Muslims and what they are going through within India

When we become OIC member and raise issues which are not Muslim related issues you OIC member can object to we raising none Muslim issues at OIC.but you are hoping to heard what is your imagination as Indian Muslim voice it's not going to happen.

 

[RoadRunner401]

When we become OIC member and raise issues which are not Muslim related issues you OIC member can object to we raising none Muslim issues at OIC.but you are hoping to heard what is your imagination as Indian Muslim voice it's not going to happen.

OH I C.

 

[S Hussain]

The Saudis are the offspring of Yazid. They are friends of the Jews and pagans

 

[hussain0216]

When we become OIC member and raise issues which are not Muslim related issues you OIC member can object to we raising none Muslim issues at OIC.but you are hoping to heard what is your imagination as Indian Muslim voice it's not going to happen.

There are 250 million Indian Muslims and you are trying to deny their voice???

And this is the problem, Indian Muslims are one of the biggest communities but their voice is stifled

Both the OIC and wider world needs to hear this voice and Indian Muslims need to now politically build upon the recent momentum to create the basis of a pan India Indian Muslim political movement like the Muslim League

 

[Shah_Deu]

When we are outside India we only have one voice .

You can dream about it,and I will dream of Indian Muslims claiming part of Pakistan and carving it out to be part of India as Pakistan was made for Muslims of SA.

Then i am really sorry this is never going to happen because your Modi and Yogi are on our side! They are making sure your Muslims dont feel themselves a part of Gangudesh.

 

[Max]

Literally Arab pissed on the head of Niazi who trusted them and ditched honourable Malaysian Leader who stood with Pakistan and Kashmiris without any return..

But I agree with @Jackdaws even if OIC arrange meeting and condemn India, how it change anything? Haven't they done all this in the past already? It won't change shit.

The only country that matters today is USA. We have to strengthen our game there.. all will fall in line..

 

[A.A. Khan]

On one side is Turkey and MAlaysia that can give moralsupport with statements only and have never helped Pakistan financially. And on the other side are UAE and Saudi Arabia who have financially backed us.
Pakistan has its ways to arm twist Saudi Arabia through defense related issues. Pakistan can get the meet arranged if it shows seriousness not statements.

 

[ShaikhKamal]

Zionist Arabia and United Zionist Emirates are taking their policy notes from Trump and his Zionist son-in-law Jared Kushner. They are selling Palestinians and Kashmiris. Spending hundreds of billion dollars on arms that they never used while Muslims in Somalia and Yemen are dying. Intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

 

[Rasengan]

@OsmanAli98 Another example which explains the failure of the ummah. Pakistan national interests is number one and failure to understand this will hurt us. Money talks and people walk to your tune. Focus on the economy and Pakistan which is the core of the Muslim world shall lead the front.

 

[maithil]

How many times did Tunn Mahathir mention Kashmir while giving statements standing besides Imran ?

Pakistan should carefully evaluate options and pursue foreign policy beneficial to Pakistani people.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

I have said this many times, Pakistani cajoling of GCC has come to a point of diminishing returns. Those expats who work there are a liability to the national interests of Pakistan, now proven with this latest episode. If state cannot provide them jobs back home, atleast start looking at other countries where they can be absorbed, Malaysia for instance.

Pakistan-Turkey-Malaysia is the way forward. All three countries got a lot to offer to each other.

 

[Wood]

Saudi Arabia has to balance its relationship with India and Pakistan. The kingdom placates Pakistan by paying to keep its economy afloat; keeps peace with India by not directly meddling with Kashmir. One has to respect their position and not expect them to act against the kingdom’s interest by antagonizing either party in the subcontinent. Pakistanis who curse Saudi for its position are simply feeling entitled because they happen to share the same religion with Saudis.

 

[Clutch]

IK humiliated himself by not listening to sane advice and going to KL for the summit.

Beggars can't be choosers!

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

ISLAMABAD: As the Senior Officials Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation starts in Jeddah on Feb 9 (Sunday) to make preparations for the OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has shown reluctance to accept Pakistan’s request for an immediate meeting of the CFM on Kashmir.

Islamabad’s feeling of unease with the OIC on its failure to get the CFM’s meeting appears to be growing.

Prime Minister Imran Khan voiced frustration over the OIC’s silence on Kashmir while speaking at a think-tank during his visit to Malaysia.

He said: “The reason is that we have no voice and there is a total division amongst [us]. We can’t even come together as a whole on the OIC meeting on Kashmir.”

Pakistan has been pushing for the foreign ministers’ meeting of the 57-member bloc of Muslim countries, which is the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, since India annexed occupied Kashmir last August.

Although since then there has been a meeting of the contact group on Kashmir on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session in New York and a report by the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission on the rights abuses in India-held Kashmir, no progress could be made towards the CFM’s meeting.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while underscoring the importance of CFM for Pakistan at a recent presser, said it was needed to send a clear message from Ummah on the Kashmir issue.

Imran voiced frustration over OIC’s silence during his Malaysia visit

Support from Riyadh is considered a must for any move at the OIC, which is dominated by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries from the Gulf.

The kingdom made several proposals to Pakistan to avoid the CFM including holding of a parliamentary forum or speakers’ conference from Muslim countries and, according to one source, a joint meeting on Palestine and Kashmir issues. Pakistan has persisted with its proposal so far.

Islamabad’s position has been that speakers’ meeting is not commensurate with the seriousness of the situation in occupied Kashmir. Secondly, some in Islamabad were worried that the speakers forum could be used by Riyadh for Iran bashing because the speaker of Saudi Shura Dr Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh had undertaken some lobbying in that regard with some of his counterparts.

It should be recalled that it were Turkey, Malaysia and Iran that have unequivocally rejected India’s annexation of Kashmir and voiced serious concerns on atrocities committed by Indian security forces on Kashmiris in the occupied valley.

Moreover, there were apprehensions that clubbing the Kashmir dispute with Palestine at a meeting would effectively put the Kashmir issue on the backburner.

Riyadh had, however, soon after Pakistan’s absence at the Kuala Lumpur summit shown flexibility on the proposal for CFM. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan indicated that in meetings with Mr Qureshi and PM Khan during his visit to Islamabad in December, when the two sought Saudi support for the proposed meeting.

The Saudi FM was then here to thank Pakistani leadership for staying away from the Malaysia summit because of his country’s reservations. But, then Islamabad missed the bus, fearing that convening of a CFM at this stage would appear as a quid pro quo for shunning Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad’s initiative.

The Saudi flexibility too was short-lived and soon Riyadh reverted to its position on the CFM on Kashmir.

FM Qureshi reiterated Islamabad’s desire for the meeting during his visit to Saudi Arabia for defusing tensions in the Persian Gulf after the assassination of Iranian Commander Gen Qassem Soleimani. However, he has not received a positive response as yet. Mr Qureshi recently said he hoped that the Saudis would “not disappoint us”.

Senior Officials Meeting for making preparations for the routine 47th CFM is being held in Jeddah from Sunday. It is expected that the usual resolutions on Kashmir would be included in the agenda of the foreign ministers’ meeting scheduled to be held in Niger in April, but still no special focus on the plight of Kashmiris, who have been enduring lockdown that is now in its 185th day since abrogation of Article 370.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2020

KSA is beginning to isolate itself internationally with other Muslim countries, besides UAE, Egypt, and some Arab slaves, who is going to support KSA in the Muslim world. They will be pushed further into US and Israeli hands.

Gulf Arab regimes are losing respect in the hearts of every Pakistani. It is good in many ways. The Façade is now over.

We Pakistani proud ourselves for shooting down israeli jets and protecting arabs but what have arabs done anything for us.

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for one.

Arab regimes do not represent Arab people. There is alot of domestic discontent in the Arab world.

They are our brothers and love us, same as the common people of Iran and Afghanistan.