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India on Wednesday rejected remarks in Durban by the Organisation of Islamic Conference seeking to compare Jammu and Kashmir with the Palestine unrest.
"OIC has no locus standi (on Kashmir). We completely reject such attempts and such postulations," an external affairs ministry spokesperson told reporters in New Delhi.
A day after Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue at the World Conference Against Racism, a statement issued by OIC Secretary General Abdelouahed Belkeziz said: "Turning a blind eye to such crimes can only create powder kegs of tension, disputes and conflicts worldwide as best exemplified and evidenced in what occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina in recent years and what is happening in Jammu and Kashmir, Palestine and other areas of the world."
India also rebutted the statement of Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar in Durban wherein he called the cross-border terrorism in J&K a "struggle for self-determination."
Rejecting Islamabad's position, New Delhi said that Pakistan was tarnishing Islam by equating terrorism with jehad.
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