ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will chair a meeting of foreign ministers, representing all members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Islamabad next year, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
“Positively responding to Pakistan’s offer, the 47th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of OIC in Niger has decided to host the 48th CFM Session in Islamabad in 2021,” it added.
It follows the OIC’s decision to include Pakistan in its six-member Executive Committee “for the next three years” during the CFM meeting in Niamey, Niger on Saturday.
Representatives of the OIC’s 57 members and five observer states participated in the two-day talks which focused on a wide range of topics and issues faced by the Muslim world.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi led the Pakistani delegation which highlighted the atrocities in Indian-administered Kashmir, resulting in the adoption of a new resolution by the OIC which reaffirmed its support for the disputed territory.
Pakistan is a founding member of the OIC and “has always played an important role in promoting the role of the OIC as a collective voice of Muslim Ummah,” the statement said.
The OIC was first established in 1969 and is the second-largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations.
Islamabad to host OIC Council of Foreign Ministers next year
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Islamabad to host OIC Council of Foreign Ministers next year
- Foreign Office says Organization of Islamic Cooperations’s 48th session will be held in Islamabad
- Follows Pakistan’s inclusion in the OIC’s Executive Committee list for the next three years
Gunmen kill 3 Revolutionary Guards in Iranian province bordering Pakistan
- Iranian state media says attackers ambushed patrol in Sistan and Baluchistan province before fleeing
- Border region with Pakistan and Afghanistan has long seen militant and smuggling-related violence
TEHRAN: Gunmen killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan near the Pakistan border, state media reported.
The Guard members were ambushed while patrolling near the city of Lar in a mountainous area about 1,125 kilometers (700 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
IRNA did not report whether any Guard members were injured in the attack.
The Revolutionary Guard is pursing the attackers it calls “terrorists,” but they remain at large. No group has taken responsibility for the attack, IRNA reported.
The province bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, one of the least developed in Iran, has been the site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces.
In August, Iran’s security forces killed 13 militants in three separate operations in the province a week after the group killed five policemen who were on patrol.
