Traffic plan for OIC CFM meeting in Islamabad announced

ISLAMABAD: Traffic police in Islamabad have issued a plan for three days from 18 to 20 December to divert vehicles to separate routes on the occasion of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) moot in Islamabad, ARY NEWS reported.

In a map detailing the closed roads, the traffic police said that entry and exit to red zone will remain close from certain routes while Srinagar Highway, Jinnah Avenue via Embassy Road could be used for traffic.

جناح ایونیو بزریعہ ایمبیسی روڈ استعمال کیے جاسکتے ہیں۔

3) ڈپلومیٹک انکلیو کے لئے تھرڈ روڈ کے ذریعے گیٹ 5 اور گیٹ 6 استعمال کیے جا سکتے ہیں۔

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— Islamabad Police (@ICT_Police) December 17, 2021

For the diplomatic enclave, the plan highlighted that 3rd road could be used to enter it from gates 5 and 6.

Representatives from the United States and Taliban-led interim Afghanistan government would attend the extraordinary session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) scheduled in Islamabad on December 19.

This was confirmed by the Foreign Office spokesman while detailing the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC, to be hosted by Pakistan in Islamabad.

The first Extraordinary Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers was also held in Islamabad, in January 1980, also to consider the situation in Afghanistan while the last CFM hosted by Pakistan was in 2007.

The session is being convened at the initiative of Saudi Arabia.

The spokesman said that besides the foreign ministers from the OIC member states and observers, participants would also include special invitees from the United Nations system, international financial institutions and some non-member states including the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia, Germany, Italy and Japan, as well as the European Union.

The Afghan Interim Government would also be represented at the CFM, the foreign office said.