The document outlines the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), including its founding, structure, aims, achievements, challenges, weaknesses, and Pakistan's role. The OIC was established in 1969 in response to the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque. It has 57 member states and aims to promote Muslim interests, fight Islamophobia, and support Palestine. The OIC faces challenges due to geographic and political diversity among members. While it has had some successes in conflict resolution, it has also faced criticisms over its perceived failures to improve Muslim conditions and respond effectively to crises.

2. Presentation:
Organization of Islamic Co-Operation (OIC)
Group members :
 Shafiq ur Rahman roll no : 68
 Ajaz ullah roll no : 72
 Mir Afzal roll no : 65
Qauid e azam college of commerce
University of Peshawar

3. AGENDA
 Origin and founding of the OIC
 Organizational structure of the OIC
 Aims of the OIC
 Achievements
 Challenges
 Weaknesses of OIC
 Pakistan role in OIC

4. Origin and founding of the OIC
 The organization of Islamic cooperation is the 2nd largest organization
after the united nations organization.
 The formation of the OIC happened shortly after the 1967 Arab-Israeli
War. Leaders of Muslim nations met in Rabat to establish the OIC on
September 25, 1969.
 It was formed on September 25, 1969 in response to fire-raising attack on
mosque al Aqsa in Jerusalem by Zionist extremist.
 Its priorities are promoting the interests of Muslim communities across the
world and fighting islamophobia, especially in the western world.

5.  Over the last 47 years, the membership has grown from its founding members
of 25 to 57 states.
 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has 57 members, 56 of which are
also member states of the United Nations.
 OIC members represent 22 per cent of the world population, have 2 per cent of
the world's GDP, 1.3 per cent of the world trade and only 1.5 per cent of the
investments.
 OIC has 3 official languages: Arabic, English and French

6.  OIC permanent Secretariat is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The current
secretary general of OIC is Dr. Yousef Bin Ahmad Al Othaimeen of Saudi
Arabia. Join OIC January 2016.The Secretary General is elected for a
period of 5 years.
 The OIC has 57 member states. Palestine is the only member of OIC, who is
not the member of UNO. Palestine is an observing member of United
Nations.
 It is financed by contributions and donations of its members.

7. Name And Logo changes
 28 June 2011 during 38 council of foreign Ministers meeting in “Astana,
Kazakhstan”. The Organization changed the Name from “organization of Islamic
conference” to “ organization of Islamic cooperation”.
 And also changed the logo of OIC
 From To

8. MEMBER STATES

9. MEMBERS
• OIC has got 57 members in total from which
• 26 are from Asia
• 27 from Africa
• 2 from Europe
• 2 from South America

10. Besides members there are certain states and organizations with observer status:
 Observer states are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Russia
and Thailand.
 Observer Muslim organizations are: Moro National Liberation Front, Turkish
Cypriot State.
 Observer international organizations are: Economic Cooperation Organization,
African Union, League of Arab States, Non-Aligned Movement, and the United
Nations.

11. Organizational structure of the OIC
 Main Organs
1. Islamic summit:
• The Islamic Summit is composed of Kings and Heads of State and
Government of Member States and is the supreme authority of the
Organization.
• The conference is held to consider issues of critical importance to the
Muslim world and formulate policies on them which are implemented
by the organization.
• The Islamic Summit shall convene every three years in one of the
Member States.

12. 2. Council of Foreign Ministers:
• The Council of Foreign Ministers shall be convened once a year in
one of the Member States. They Should be Considering
 Reviewing progress of the implementation of the decisions and
resolutions adopted at the previous Summits and Councils of Foreign
Ministers.
 Considering and approving the programme, budget and other financial
and administrative reports of the General Secretariat and Subsidiary
Organs.
 Recommending to establish any new organ or committee;
 Electing the Secretary General and appointing the Assistant Secretaries
General Accordance Article.

13. 3. Standing Committees:
In order to advance issues of critical importance to the Organization and its
Member States, the Organization has formed the following Standing
Committees.
i. Al Quds Committee
ii. Standing Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs (COMIAC)
iii. Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC)
iv. Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological
Cooperation (COMSTECH).
The Standing Committees are chaired by Kings and Heads of State and
Government and are established in accordance with decisions of the Summit
or upon the recommendation of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the
membership of such Committees.

14. General Secretariat
The General Secretariat who shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the Organization.
The Secretary-General shall be elected by the Council of Foreign Ministers for a
period of five years. The Secretary-General shall be elected
from among nationals of the Member States. The secretary renewable once time. The
secretary general elected accordance with the principles of equitable geographical
distribution.
“Secretaries general of the organization of the Islamic cooperation.

15. The Secretary General responsibilities.
a. follow-up the implementation of decisions, resolutions and recommendations
of the Islamic Summits, and Councils of Foreign Ministers and other
Ministerial meetings.
b. provide the Member States with working papers and memoranda, in
implementation of the decisions, resolutions and recommendations of the
Islamic Summits and the Councils of Foreign Ministers;
c. coordinate and harmonize, the work of the relevant Organs of the Organization.

16. Specialized institutions
The number and types of secondary organs and institutions, working toward the achievement of
the OIC objectives, and cover various areas.
Islamic Development Bank
Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Islamic States Broadcasting Organization
International Islamic News Agency
Islamic Committee of the International Crescent
The Science, Technology and Innovation Organization

17. Aims of OIC
 To safeguard people of the member states and Muslims.
 Strengthen Islamic solidarity.
 Consolidate Cooperation among members states in social, cultural and
scientific fields
 Safeguard the Holy places.
 Support the struggle of the Palestinian people.
 Eliminate racial discrimination and all forms of colonialism.

18. Achievements
 In 1970 when a conflict broke out between Jordan and Palestine Liberation
Organization, the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Naseer and Saudi
Arabia’s King Faisal jointly led the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and
the Arab League initiative to resolve the clash.
 In 1974, the conflict between the newly formed Bangladesh and Pakistan
was successfully solved by the Organization.

19.  The organization of Islamic Cooperation leadership also gained
confidence on the issue of Ramadan War in 1973 against Israel.
 OIC leadership also successfully solved the issue of oil restriction
against the supporters of Israel in 1974.
 The Organization also adopted various resolutions declaring the Jihad
in numerous fields against the Israeli occupation of Palestine land and
to force Israel to follow the United Nation resolutions on the matter.

20. Challenges
 Difficulties in coordination.
 Geographically dispersed (Africa, Asia, Middle East, Southeast Asia)
 Politically diverse. (Islamic Republics, Monarchies, Democracy,
Military Dictatorships)
 National Income differences (Richest like Saudi Arabia and poorest
Afghanistan)

21.  The unifying force is Islam. Aims to protect the Islam from Western
materialism.
 Foreign occupation of Muslim lands.
 Tensions arising from Muslim minority status in a number of countries.
 Extremist tendencies due to feelings of injustice, hopelessness and
desperation.

22. Failure of OIC
The OIC fails to establish a Peaceful Muslim world;
Failure of establishing a security and peaceful Muslim world: Considering of
what kind of goal, OIC established in 1967 for the Muslim world, it has become
totally failure to fulfill of those goal.
 The crisis of Palestine;
 It has been saying since the establishment of OIC that, to give Arabian right, to
establish Arabian rule in Jerusalem, to give the right for the Palestine peoples
and abdicate from Arabian land which was grabbed by Israel but OIC couldn’t
do anything for the Muslim world except passing a few regulations.

23. The USA started a war against Iraq and the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation was just a spectator.
Afghanistan crisis;
OIC played a minimum role by giving support of ethical and
materialism to Afghanistan during the Soviet Aggression.
Rebels in Libya were supported by the French Air Force and the
OIC did not move forward to even take a notice
Except these crises OIC has more failure like Balkan crisis, Gulf
crisis, Egypt crisis and Libya crisis as well as Syria crisis OIC is
playing minor role to mitigate of these crises.

24. Weaknesses of OIC
 OIC members represent 22 per cent of the world population, have
2 per cent of the world's GDP, 1.3 per cent of the world trade and
only 1.5 per cent of the investments. Twenty five per cent of OIC
population does not have access to medical facilities or safe
drinking water.
 Half of the population lives below the poverty line classified as the
most poor. No Muslim country is in the top list of the Human
Development Index or in any other global economic indicators.

25.  The OIC member countries possess 70 per cent of the world's
energy resources and 40 per cent of available raw material but their
GDP is only 5 per cent of the world GDP. Muslim countries
miserably lag behind in education and technology.
 They produce only 500 PhDs each year as compared to 3,000 in
India and 5,000 in the United Kingdom. None of their educational
or research institutions or centers of excellence find place in the top
100 in the world.

26. The OIC has always attempted to resolve conflicts among its member
states by peaceful means.
Millions of Muslims across the world lost their lives and property in
unjust and illegal western and Israeli engineered wars in their
respective countries under the facade of “combating terrorism”,
“restoring democracy”, “regime change” or “prevention” of nuclear war.
The lives of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and now Egypt will
never be the same again and they feel excluded and betrayed by their
own brethren like never before.

27. Pakistan Role in OIC
In terms of population, it is the OIC's second largest member. Being the only
Muslim country with nuclear weapons, having the seventh-largest standing
military force, through research at NESCOM and DESTO and a large labour
workforce working in various Muslim countries, play a role in its prominence.
 Pakistan's solidarity with Palestine:
In line with OIC strong stance against the occupation of Palestine by Israel,
Pakistan has continuously adopted a stance against Israel, while maintaining
moral solidarity with Palestine.

28. Military cooperation
Army collaboration
See also Pakistan military cooperation with Saudi
Arabia, Indonesia, UAE, Brunei, Nigeria and Middle Eastern Countries.
Pakistan Army Military College of Signals has trained more than 500 officers from
places such as Burma, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Gambia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq,
Iran, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Sudan, South
Africa, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Uganda, UAE and Zambia, most
of these countries are member of OIC.

29. Naval collaboration
More than 1900 officers from Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE,
Bahrain, Qatar, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ghana, Jordan, Kuwait,
Libya and Oman have been trained in Pakistan Naval
Academy.[5] Pakistan SSGN has also trained officers from countries like Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Iran.

30. Since Islam gives priority for brotherhood rather than border or territory, if they
successfully apply the single Islamic value of “unity” among the members, they can
bolster their declining status. To address Islamic world issues, the great or emerging
power in Islamic world; Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia and
Indonesia, should take leading rule or decision-making rule. They should take a
problem of a single country as a whole and deal with till to find a proper solution.
This solution should be in the frame of their charter and may pay cost where it
needs.
To enhance their influence over member countries, OIC should develop trade relations
among member countries and pave the way to sign free trade agreement and remove or
reduce economic or trade barriers in its member states. So then, being as a member of OIC,
may have enough value and privilege, because they will enjoy free trade and less economic
barriers. It will be a good incentive for member countries and will play a good role for
enhancing of political and economic leverage of OIC and most of its member will very
hardly dare to breach the charter or violate the notion of OIC. So then suspending a
membership will both economically and politically affect a relevant country.