PR No.79
ISLAMABAD: October 12, 2023

OIC Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Jammu and Kashmir Meets Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment OIC Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Jammu and Kashmir, H.E. Yousef M. Al Dobeay along with a high level delegation met Ms. Mushaal Hussain Mullick today. Welcoming the OIC delegation for its visit to Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir, SAPM Mullick thanked the Special Envoy for OIC’s consistent and unequivocal support to the oppressed people of Jammu & Kashmir, particularly since India’s illegal actions of 5 August 2019. She expressed her deep appreciation for OIC’s sustained advocacy in their just cause for realization of the right to self-determination. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister briefed the OIC Special Envoy on aggravating human rights violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, particularly incarceration of the entire political leadership including Yasin Malik. She urged the OIC to rally the international community for protection of the fundamental human rights of the Kashmiri people. Ambassador Yousef M. Al Dobeay reaffirmed OIC’s principled position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. He stated that the OIC was fully committed to the Kashmir cause and his visit to Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in his capacity as OIC Special Envoy on Jammu and Kashmir was an expression of that commitment. He reassured the Kashmiri people of OIC’s full support for protection of their rights, including the right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions. He further underlined that all OIC bodies, including the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission would continue actively playing their part to extend all possible support and assistance to the Kashmiri people.

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