ISLAMABAD: As the Senior Officials Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation starts in Jeddah on Feb 9 (Sunday) to make preparations for the OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has shown reluctance to accept Pakistan’s request for an immediate meeting of the CFM on Kashmir. Islamabad’s feeling of unease with the OIC on its failure to get the CFM’s meeting appears to be growing. Prime Minister Imran Khan voiced frustration over the OIC’s silence on Kashmir while speaking at a think-tank during his visit to Malaysia. He said: “The reason is that we have no voice and there is a total division amongst [us]. We can’t even come together as a whole on the OIC meeting on Kashmir.” It should be noted that Pakistan has been making efforts to seek the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting since its affiliation with Kashmir, India, in the 57-member block of other major international organizations, Muslim countries, in August last year. However, since then a contact group meeting on Kashmir has been held in the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York and the human rights violations in Indian occupied Kashmir by the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission. Despite the report on, no progress has been made for the CFM meeting. External Affairs Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi highlighted the importance of the CFM meeting during a recent press conference, saying that it was important for a clear message from the Umma on the Kashmir issue. Although since then there has been a meeting of the contact group on Kashmir on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session in New York and a report by the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission on the rights abuses in India-held Kashmir, no progress could be made towards the CFM’s meeting. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while underscoring the importance of CFM for Pakistan at a recent presser, said it was needed to send a clear message from Ummah on the Kashmir issue.