As I am writing these lines an extra ordinary session of OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is in progress on 22nd of March. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is attending this important session in Istanbul. Turkey, being the OIC Summit Chair, has called upon hold- ing an emergency meeting to discuss the increasing violence based on Islamophobia, xenophobia and racism, particularly the terrorist attack that targeted two mosques in New Zealand on 15 March 2019. Apart from the OIC members, the representatives of the United Nations, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were also invited to the meeting. It was a right move for calling upon such OIC session along with world's other representatives' organizations since the nature of the terror act was so brutal that every peace-loving nation and peo- ple across the world were shocked. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern referred to the attacks as "one of New Zealand's darkest days" and termed the alleged shooter a "Terrorist". Being a collective forum of Islamic nations it was the ultimate responsibility of OIC nations to sit together and set the path and line of actions for future.
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