Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has briefed the OIC contact group on the humanitarian and human rights situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The Minister was participating in the meeting of the OIC contact group on Jammu and Kashmir on the sidelines of the 49th OIC council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

He explained that the situation in IIOJK had deteriorated with India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 august 2019 and the subsequent attempts at demographic changes in the occupied territory.

The contact group expressed alarm at the situation in the IIOJK and adopted a joint Communique reaffirming OIC’s position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and reiterating its firm rejection of India’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019.