N.P.Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: While the February tensions between Pakistan and India were still on, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in its recent meet in Abu Dhabi had invited Indian Foreign Minister Mrs. Sushma Swaraj as the Guest of Honor.

An annoyed Pakistan while boycotted the OIC meet, then Swaraj used the forum to criticize her rival nation as much as she could. The Indian Foreign Minister also hates Nepal. Her hatred list goes long. Muslims are her target which is the basic formula of the Hindu BJP which is what distinguishes Nepal’s Hindus with those of India’s.

Federal Minister Dr. Shireen Mazari of Pakistan understands this fact as she has mingled with the Nepali Hindus in the past, if she prefers to recall.

The Indian media and the government in Delhi took Sushma’s solo presence in Abu Dhabi equivalent to a victory over Pakistan without firing a single shot on the enemy.

The Indian excitement was real. Look how the Indian media took Swaraj’s trip to OIC meet in Abu Dhabi.

“In a first, India has been invited as the guest of honor at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC meet.

“We see this invitation as a welcome recognition of the presence of 185 million Muslims in India and of their contribution to its pluralistic ethos, and of India’s contribution to the Islamic world,” the Indian Ministry of External affairs (MEA) said in a statement.

The undeserving exhilaration fizzled out the other moment.

The reverse came to true instead. In effect in a way, India was taken to task by the OIC meet in a diplomatic manner.

It was almost “Ghar Bulakey Khub Dhoya…”

However, New Delhi had no inkling as to what had been in the store for India at the end of the OIC meet in Abu Dhabi.

The statement that was released upon the conclusion of the OIC meet had talked of “Indian terrorism”, a term perhaps for the first time coined so boldly by the congregation of the Islamic States scattered over the globe.

Any bad words against India makes it a plus point for Pakistan, as is the practice and vice versa.

The OIC press release read in part, “The OIC resolution condemned in the strongest terms (the) recent wave of Indian terrorism in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and expressed deep concern over the atrocities and human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir”.

Moreover, Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the OIC which concluded in Abu Dhabi reiterated that “Jammu and Kashmir remained the core dispute between Pakistan and India” and “its resolution is indispensable for the dream for peace in South Asia”.

“The OIC resolution also condemned in the strongest terms the recent wave of Indian terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and expressed deep concern over the atrocities and human rights violations in IOK [Indian Occupied Kashmir],” the statement said.

The message was loud and clear for India from Abu Dhabi. Indian notoriety came to light which must have primarily opened the eyes of its own population who differed with the saffron clad Modi men inside the BJP paraphernalia.

And the incumbent UN Secretary General Mr. Antonio Guterras too must have taken proper note of the OIC conclusion hopefully.

The OIC in deriding at India has in some way or the other endorsed Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir which has called it as “central to regional peace”.

Back in India, the Indian Congress spokesman slammed the Modi government for attending the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after it adopted a resolution against Jammu & Kashmir.

“The NDA government sold national integrity by participating in the OIC meet”, accused Manish Tewari.

Tewari sought to know whether Prime Minister had deputed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for the meeting only to oversee India being labelled a terrorist state and as an occupying force in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Saudi Crown Prince MBS played his veiled role in deescalating tension that had scared the South Asian region and much beyond, Nepali observers guess. He averted the near to war like situation in South Asia. Thanks MBS from Nepal.

The smaller countries of the South Asian region endorse the final OIC statement as they have full knowledge as to what India mean to them? Nepal has gained the expertise especially on how India imposes Economic Blockades on its smaller neighbors.

In fact, India has driven Nepal to the Chinese fold.

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and delivered a “special message” from powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, amid global efforts to de-escalate Indo-Pak tensions, according to media reports.

Saudi state minister for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir, a graduate of Georgetown University, Texas, USA, called on Prime Minister Khan at his office where the two discussed the ongoing Indo-Pak tensions and matters of regional and bilateral interest, Geo TV and other media agencies reported.

Minister Jubeir conveyed him a special message of the crown prince, media agencies added.

However, the details of the message were kept a guarded secret.

In the meantime, the news is that some two thousand Pakistani prisoners languishing in Saudi jail have already been released.

PM Khan had made a formal request to MBS while the latter was on a Pakistan visit last month.

In the meanwhile, Pakistan’s information minister this Sunday admitted that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the UAE played a “commendable” role in helping to defuse recent tensions on the subcontinent.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry thanked the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed for their “commendable” interventions.

“Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other Muslim countries have been of a great help,” Chaudhry told The Arab News when asked about the role of the Arab world in de-escalating the crisis.

He also welcomed the strongly worded resolution adopted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the disputed Kashmir region.

Interestingly, the tension in between the two rival countries have come down to a desired level but yet care must be taken that it may not escalate once again as of the sort of last February heightened skirmishes.

Indian PM Modi can go to any extent as the election is already knocking the doors.

The US, UK, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and a host of other countries worked behind the scene to avert the Indo-Pak crisis. That’s all.