OIC Urges India, Pakistan to Show Restraint
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned India’s recent “violation” of Pakistani airspace, urging the two countries to restraints restraint.
“The OIC condemned the Indian incursion and aerial violation and dropping of four bombs today, February 26, 2019,” the secretariat of OIC said in a statement on Wednesday, according to the organization’s official website.
“It urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and avoid any steps that would endanger peace and security in the region,” it added.
Tensions have seen a sharp hike between the two nuclear-armed states since February 14, when Pakistan-based militants carried out a deadly bomb attack against Indian paramilitary forces on the New Delhi-controlled side of Kashmir.
The tensions reached a peak on Tuesday when India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said his country had conducted “preemptive” airstrikes against what it described as a militant training camp in Balakot near Kashmir, shortly after the Pakistani military accused New Delhi of violating its territory in the Kashmir region.
According to an Indian government source, some 300 militants were killed in the strikes.
Islamabad, However, rejected New Delhi’s claim that it had killed many militants as "self serving, reckless and fictitious.”