How China is Wooing the Muslim World
Beijing is turning up the charm (and the development funds) to escape blame for its treatment of the Uighurs.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest multilateral body claiming to represent the global
Ummah, hosted a virtual meeting in honor of Kashmir Solidarity Day last Friday. In it, representatives from Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Niger and Azerbaija expressed their “unwavering” support for movements for Muslim self-determination in the Himalayan region where four of the most populous regions out of the six are disputed by India and Pakistan.
Somehow, they neglected to denounce the government of China. Beijing is responsible for the administration of Kashmir’s easternmost provinces and is currently busy interning over three million Uyghurs in concentration camps.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi addresses a photography and culture exhibition on Indian-occupied Kashmir in Islamabad. DawnNewsTV
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday asked the Biden administration not to overlook the ground realities vis-à-vis occupied Kashmir as he urged the world to help in reaching a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute before it was too late.
He was speaking at a photography and cultural exhibition held at the Foreign Office as part of Kashmir Solidarity Day activities.
“I expect the new Biden administration that has always talked of fundamental human rights to stop ignoring the ground realities in held Kashmir,” the foreign minister asserted.
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday said dividends of improved security situation, including return of international cricket in the country, was a result of numerous.
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa Tuesday said that dividends of improved security situation including return of international cricket in the country was a result of.
Kashmir Solidarity Day: Foreign Ministry to Organize Photographic and Cultural Exhibition
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As part of activities to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will organize a Photographic and Cultural Exhibition in Islamabad on Thursday.
The Photographic and Cultural Exhibition titled ‘Tribute to Kashmiris’ Resilience in their Just Struggle for Right to Self-Determination will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad at 11:00 am on Thursday.
The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will deliver the keynote address during the event.
Kashmir Solidarity Day is annually observed on February 5 to express wholehearted support of the Pakistani nation to the just struggle of Kashmiri people for their inalienable right to self-determination under the UN Security Council resolutions.