India’s West Asia outreach is to garner support over Jammu and Kashmir and to counter the meddlesome resolutions of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) on the subject. It will be difficult for the Muslim countries to distance themselves from the OIC and what it says. The utmost that can be expected of the Muslim countries is to maintain neutrality, which many of them already do. It is also necessary for New Delhi to understand that sending a Muslim minister to Muslim countries does not help matters. Successive Congress governments had created a wrong precedent by selecting a Muslim minister to deal with the Arab and other Muslim governments.

Source: dna August 23, 2016 02:43 UTC