New Delhi, May 6 -- India has strongly rejected the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) recent statement, terming it "absurd" as it refused to recognise the facts of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and its cross-border linkages.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Tuesday that OIC has no right to interfere in India's internal affairs.

"The OIC statement, issued at the behest of Pakistan, is absurd in refusing to recognise the facts of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and its cross-border linkages," he said in response to media queries about OIC Group statement in New York.

"This is yet another attempt by Pakistan, a country that has long engaged in cross-border terrorism, to manipulate and misguide the ...