OIC could become a forum for Pakistan and India to resolve Kashmir dispute, experts say
In 2002, Ijaz ul Haq, a seasoned Pakistani politician, was on a crisis management tour of the Middle East. A few months earlier militants had stormed India’s parliament building, killing nine people.New Delhi blamed Pakistan for the attack. The two nuclear-armed neighbours, who share a long border, were on the brink of war.
” A change of heart? India, where Muslims make up the largest minority group, was part of the OIC’s first meeting in Rabat, Morocco, in 1969. But its representatives were forced to pull out in the aftermath of riots in India’s Gujarat the same year, in which hundreds of people were killed - most of them Muslim.
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