ISLAMABAD, Sept 16: Ezzat Kamel Mufti, OIC Secretary-General’s special representative on Kashmir, called on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister’s House on Tuesday.

The prime minister termed the timing of the envoy’s visit crucial and said he could verify that the uprising in the Indian-held Kashmir was entirely indigenous.

He said that the special representative’s report would be very helpful for the organisation’s contact group on Jammu and Kashmir which was to meet in New York later this month on the sidelines of the 63rd session of UN General Assembly.

Mr Mufti told the prime minister that the OIC attached great importance to resolution of the Kashmir issue.

The OIC envoy also called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and reiterated OIC’s support to the just cause of the Kashmiri people as well as the peace process between Pakistan and India.

He appreciated the confidence-building measures and hoped that the democratic government would continue its political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri people.

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