NEW DELHI, Aug 20: The Organization of Islamic Conference has invited Democratic Freedom Party president Shabir Ahmad Shah to attend the forthcoming ministerial meeting of the OIC in New York next month.

Mr Shah has been invited by OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to the ministerial meeting of the OIC contact group on Jammu and Kashmir as well as the annual coordination meeting of the OIC foreign ministers to be held on Sept 19 and Sept 23 during the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

“I have the pleasure to invite your excellency in your capacity as a true representative of the Kashmiri people to attend the meetings in New York as an invitee,” Mr Ihsanoglu said in the invitation, according a news report received here. However, senior Kashmiri leader Shabir Shah is unlikely to attend the OIC ministerial meeting as he does not possess a passport or a travel document, added the report.

He was refused an Indian passport in the run-up to the visit of Kashmir leaders to Azad Jammu and Kashmir in June.—APP