NEWSLINKS US EDITION SOUTH ASIA COLUMNISTS DIARY SPECIALS INTERVIEWS CAPITAL BUZZ REDIFF POLL THE STATES ELECTIONS ARCHIVES SEARCH REDIFF
The Organisation of Islamic Conference has assured India that it would ask Pakistan to implement its promise to fight terrorism.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who led a Parliamentary delegation to Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to present the 'real picture' of Indo-Pak ties, said that OIC Secretary General Abdelouhed Belkeziz told them that he would urge Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to implement the assurances he made in his January 12 televised speech.
While condemning violence and terrorism 'in all forms' as 'un-Islamic', leaders and policy makers of the three countries conveyed to the team their opposition to any armed conflict between India and Pakistan and favoured a dialogue between the two neighbours on the Kashmir issue, Malhotra said.
During their visit from January 27, the four-member delegation, which included film actress-turned Member of Parliament Shabana Azmi, former Indian ambassador to Algeria I S Rathore and Z H Nadvi, dean of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, 'successfully' demolished the Pakistani propaganda of a 'civilisational clash', he said.
The team, which met among others Moroccan King Mohammad VI, would submit a report to External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh on Wednesday.
The leaders of the three countries expressed concern over the growing Indo-Israeli ties, but the delegation assured them that while New Delhi and Tel Aviv would continue to cooperate on 'security-related' issues, there will never be any dilution of India's support to the Palestinian cause.
Tell us what you think of this report
Call India
