KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation (Mapim) has urged Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to not relent to India over his recent remarks on the Jammu Kashmir conflict, made at the United Nations' General Assembly in New York. Its president Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid said they were in full support of the prime minister’s stand on the issue. He said for Malaysia, as a trading nation, places a large degree of importance on the market. “But as a free nation, the move in calling for a peaceful negotiation and based on a UN agreed resolution must be respected. We call upon Dr Mahathir to stay his ground and not waver,” he said,Mapim president Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid.

Source: New Strait Times October 22, 2019 12:56 UTC