In a sharply worded rebuttal on Monday, India condemned the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for making “unwarranted” and “factually incorrect” statements on internal Indian matters during its recent two-day foreign ministerial meeting held in Turkiye. The OIC, heavily influenced by Pakistan and backed by Turkey, once again used its platform to push a politically motivated narrative accusing India of “social marginalisation” of Muslims and called for dialogue on the Kashmir issue.
The OIC also called for strict adherence to bilateral pacts between India and Pakistan, including the Indus Waters Treaty and stressed the need for a broad-based dialogue for the peaceful settlement of all outstanding disputes.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) categorically rejected the allegations, calling them baseless and a reflection of Pakistan’s misuse of the OIC for its own narrow political ends. “These statements, driven by Pakistan, which has turned terrorism into statecraft, reflect the continued misuse of the OIC platform,” said the MEA in its official statement.
The Indian response also strongly criticised the OIC’s continued failure to acknowledge the real and documented threat of terrorism emanating from Pakistan — a threat recently exemplified by the brutal terror attack in Pahalgam. Despite abundant evidence and decades of global concern over Pakistan’s role as a haven for terrorism, the OIC has remained conspicuously silent on the issue, exposing its selective outrage and hypocrisy.
The Indian government reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and sovereign part of India, a fact enshrined in the Indian Constitution and irrevocably settled. It underlined that the OIC has “no locus standi” to comment on India’s internal matters and warned that allowing Pakistani propaganda to dominate its agenda will erode the credibility and relevance of the organisation.
India also rejected Pakistan’s allegations of “unprovoked and unjustified military aggression,” clarifying that Operation Sindoor, conducted after the Pahalgam attack, was a precise and legitimate act of self-defence aimed at neutralising terror infrastructure operating from Pakistani soil. It noted that Pakistan’s retaliatory attempts not only failed but irresponsibly endangered civilian lives, causing deaths and injuries.
What is especially troubling is the OIC’s consistent and glaring double standards. While it frequently criticises secular and democratic India — where Muslims enjoy constitutional protections and are part of the mainstream — it completely overlooks the appalling treatment of minorities in several of its own member countries.
Many of these Islamic states, including Pakistan, have long records of blatant human rights violations against non-Muslims. From forced conversions and desecration of places of worship to the denial of citizenship and voting rights, these countries have institutionalised discrimination. Yet the OIC remains silent, never issuing statements on the treatment of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadiyyas, or Shias in Pakistan, or the condition of Yazidis and Kurds elsewhere in the Muslim world.
This duplicity exposes the OIC not as a neutral forum for Islamic cooperation, but as a politicised body increasingly stooping to act as a stooge for Islamabad and Ankara, driven by their obsession with targeting India. Their repeated attempts to vilify India on fabricated narratives — while turning a blind eye to real atrocities in their own backyard — underscores the hollowness of their moral posturing.
India has rightly called upon the OIC to introspect on the dangers of allowing its agenda to be hijacked by Pakistan’s propaganda machinery. A body that aspires to global relevance cannot retain legitimacy by acting as a partisan tool. If it continues on this path, the OIC risks rendering itself irrelevant on the world stage, reduced to an echo chamber of selective outrage and geopolitical vendettas.
