OIC Declaration ignores Indian aggression against Pakistan: ex-chairman Senate

Former Senate chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said the government needed to reassess and re-evaluate the foreign policy of Pakistan and urged the Leader of the House in the Senate to move a motion for convening a meeting of a committee of the whole House to discuss the various foreign policy options amid escalation by warmongering India.

He noted that recent shift in foreign policy alignment doesn’t seem to have borne fruit as the Abu Dhabi declaration of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in its 50 points did not talk about Indian aggression against Pakistan. Rabbani added that the resolutions that were passed with reference to Indian terrorism in Kashmir were sponsored by Pakistan.
He said that the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs should also formulate its own recommendations after a thorough debate.
“The reevaluation of foreign policy and discussion on options should be made in consultation with the relevant stakeholders and recommendations should be formulated.”
Raza Rabbani said the recommendations of the committee and the NA standing committee should be presented before a joint sitting of parliament, where he said, they should be considered and “if so required, experts and stakeholders may be asked to appear for their inputs before a comprehensive document of recommendations is adopted by the joint sitting”.
A joint session of Parliament was held on Thursday to discuss rising tensions with India in the wake of the Pulwama attack and subsequent airstrikes by both countries.