Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said that India's new citizenship law is anti-Muslim and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should raise its voice effectively.

The OIC is an organization of Islamic countries and is dominated by Saudi Arabia.

Addressing a press conference in Multan, Pakistan, Qureshi said that the OIC should effectively oppose human rights violations in Kashmir and India's citizenship amendment law.

The Pakistani Foreign Minister said that he has spoken to other Islamic countries regarding these matters and has proposed a meeting of foreign ministers of the OIC member countries. Qureshi said that he has received positive response in this matter.

Radio Pakistan reported in its report on Sunday that the OIC has decided to hold a meeting in India-administered Kashmir on human rights violations and India's citizenship amendment law. It is being said that such a meeting will be held in Islamabad in April next year.

The Pakistani Foreign Minister claimed in this press conference that India had clearly divided into secularism and Hinduism ideology during the reign of Narendra Modi.

He said, "India's minority and educated Hindu population are against the anti-Muslim citizenship amendment law. Since the enactment of this law on December 11, 25 people have died during protests in India. Critics of this law say that it discriminates against Muslims. International newspapers around the world have slammed this law.''

Qureshi said, "Chief Ministers of at least five states of India have refused to implement this law. I have also written several letters to the UN Security Council regarding Kashmir.''

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud visited Pakistan last week. According to Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune, in this tour, it has been agreed that OIC will meet foreign ministers of its member countries on Kashmir and disputed citizenship amendment law.

The relationship between Pakistan and Saudi was said to be tense for the past few weeks as Saudi barred Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan from attending the Kuala Lumpur Summit held in Malaysia on 19-20 December.

It was only then that the Saudi Foreign Minister visited Pakistan. Pakistan defended its decision not to attend the Kuala Lumpur summit, saying that it wanted to build bridges in the Islamic world and not intensify conflict.

Recently, the OIC issued a statement regarding the Babri Masjid, the Citizenship Amendment Act and Kashmir. In this statement, the OIC said, "We are closely watching the recent developments in India. Many things have happened that have affected minorities. We have concerns about citizenship rights and the Babri Masjid case. We reiterate again that the safety of Muslims and their holy place in India should be ensured.

The OIC had said that minorities should be protected without any discrimination as per the principles and obligations of the United Nations. The OIC said that if these principles and obligations were neglected, the security and stability of the entire region would be severely affected.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is also trying to garner support globally on the Kashmir issue. On Saturday, Imran Khan said, "India's lobby in America is stronger than Pakistan. Due to strong lobbying of India, Pakistan's side is always suppressed and the result is that in the US policies, India prevails over us.''

When India ended the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the OIC was almost silent. The OIC is dominated by Saudi Arabia and its allies. Saudi also did not support Pakistan in the removal of Article 370 and the United Arab Emirates called it an internal matter of India.

In March this year, the UAE invited the then Foreign Minister of India Sushma Swaraj to the OIC Foreign Ministers' Meeting. Pakistan had raised a strong objection to this. After this, India ended the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, then the OIC did not criticize India. However, Turkey and Malaysia openly criticized India in this matter.

It is common opinion among the policy makers of Pakistan that the Saudi-led OIC did not support India at all against Kashmir. On the other hand, Iran, Turkey and Malaysia want to directly challenge the OIC that it has failed to understand and stage the sentiments of the Islamic world.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia wants to maintain political and diplomatic influence in the Muslim world through the OIC. If the efforts of Malaysia, Turkey and Iran are successful, the relevance of the OIC will be seriously challenged in the coming months. It is being said that Malaysia, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan were also going to discuss Jammu and Kashmir at this summit.

Malaysia and Turkey were also openly spoken against India in the general body of the United Nations after the special status of Kashmir was abolished. It is being said within Pakistan about Saudi that he has his own interests with India, so he is not speaking himself in Kashmir.

On 14 August, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing the assembly in Muzaffarabad of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said that the world's one and a half billion Muslims are united on Kashmir but unfortunately the ruler is silent.

Imran Khan has been repeatedly urging Muslim countries to mobilize on Kashmir, but in the meantime Mukesh Ambani had announced that Saudi Arabia's oil company Aramco is going to make the largest investment in Reliance in India.

It is a Saudi state-owned company and is controlled by King Salman. This announcement was in sharp contrast to Imran Khan's wish.

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