India rejects OIC's Baghdad resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, says Pakistan orchestrated them

India's Ministry of External Affairs on Monday, October 19, rejected references to India in resolutions adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's Council of Foreign Ministers, which met in Baghdad on October 17 and 18, calling them "malicious, biased and false" and saying they had been orchestrated by Pakistan, The Week, the Free Press Journal and Open reported. The ministry said the OIC had allowed itself to be misused by Pakistan for a "bigoted agenda".

What the OIC adopted

The 52nd session of the council produced a Baghdad Declaration and 43 resolutions on political affairs, The Wire reported. According to The Wire:

• the Baghdad Declaration reaffirms what it calls Kashmir's inalienable right to self-determination;
• one resolution deals with the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, another with the India-Pakistan peace process and a third with Islamophobia;
• the Kashmir resolution calls for a settlement in line with UN Security Council resolutions, rejects India's actions after the 2019 revocation of Article 370, and criticises Indian policy on domicile certificates, electoral representation and the territory's status.

Outlook reported that one resolution expressed concern about a deterioration in the humanitarian, human rights and security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

India's response

The ministry's statement, as reported by the outlets, made these points:

• The OIC has no standing whatsoever on matters internal to India, and the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of the country.
• Jammu and Kashmir has seen economic growth and gains in infrastructure, tourism and connectivity since Article 370 was abrogated.
• Pakistan has used violence and repression against civilian protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, with deaths including women and children. Open noted that the statement gave no source for these casualty claims.
• The only outstanding issues are Pakistan vacating the territory it holds under what the ministry called illegal and forcible occupation, and ending support for cross-border terrorism.
• The references to Islamophobia were an attempt by Pakistan to divert attention from its own record on the persecution of minorities, sectarian violence and governance.

The ministry also said the OIC's repeated endorsement of Pakistan's narratives raised questions about its credibility and integrity, and expressed hope that member states would consider reforming the organisation, according to The Wire and Open. Open said its report carried inputs from ANI.

Earlier exchanges

The Wire noted that India had rejected a joint communiqué from the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, issued after a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, a few weeks earlier, calling its references unwarranted and factually incorrect. India issued a similar rejection after the OIC's 51st ministerial meeting in Istanbul in June 2025, The Wire said.

What is not in the reports

None of the reports read includes a response from Pakistan or from the OIC secretariat to India's statement, and none says which ministers attended the Baghdad session. The outlets report the OIC texts through summaries; the full resolutions were not quoted at length in any of them.