New Delhi: India on Tuesday “strongly” condemned the visit of the executive head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, claiming that any “attempt of interference and meddling” is “completely unacceptable”.On Sunday, OIC secretary general Hissein Brahim Taha visited Muzaffarabad and said that the Islamic bloc was working on a “plan of action” to find a channel of discussion between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute.The OIC head told reporters in the PoK capital that his tour was to implement a resolution adopted by the Council of Foreign ministers. “We are here to express our solidarity, sympathy and determination of the OIC to find out a solution for this longest conflict between India and Pakistan [in collaboration] with our partners, with the international community and with our member states,” Taha said, as quoted by the Dawn.He also told Pakistani reporters that while the group worked on the basis of consensus, member states had separate, close bilateral relations with India. “I just want to emphasise that in OIC, we are working on the basis of the resolutions that were adopted by the member states. But all states have their own sovereignty even though we are [from] the same community,” he said.Two days later, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi responded, “We strongly condemn the visit of OIC Secretary General to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and his comments on J&K during his visit to Pakistan.”Our response to media queries on the visit of OIC Secretary General to Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir: https://t.co/CRPyNdIDyE pic.twitter.com/FgHvUc66Vj— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) December 13, 2022Reiterating that OIC has no locus standi and that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, Bagchi added, “Any attempt of interference and meddling in India’s internal affairs by OIC and its Secretary General is completely unacceptable.”In typically strong language employed by the Indian foreign ministry against the OIC, the spokesperson claimed that the Islamic bloc has “lost its credibility by taking a blatantly communal, partisan and factually incorrect approach to issues”.Describing the OIC secretary general as a “mouth-piece of Pakistan”, Bagchi hoped that “he would refrain from becoming a partner in carrying out the nefarious agenda of Pakistan of promoting cross border terrorism into India, especially in J&K”.Half an hour later, Pakistan’s foreign ministry tweeted that the OIC supported the “legitimate and just struggle” of Jammu and Kashmir “for their inalienable right to self-determination”.OIC supports the legitimate and just struggle of the people of #IIOJK for their inalienable right to self- determinationOIC SG’s visited 🇵🇰& reaffirmed OIC’s commitment to a peaceful settlement of the Jammu & Kashmir dispute in accordance with the resolutions of the UNSC & OIC pic.twitter.com/Tx7jW4XLax— Spokesperson 🇵🇰 MoFA (@ForeignOfficePk) December 13, 2022Earlier in August this year, after the OIC’s statement to mark the anniversary of the dilution of the Indian constitution’s Article 370, India had claimed that the statement “reeks of bigotry”.