Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that Saudi Arabia would always be a friend of Pakistan despite the government's recent criticism of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the Kashmir issue.

"Yes, we want OIC to play a bigger role [in the Kashmir issue]. But let me make it clear: Saudi Arabia will always be a friend of Pakistan," he said in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera news.

The prime minister was responding to a question about Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's unusually sharp warning in August asking the OIC to stop dilly-dallying on convening a meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) on Kashmir.

In an interview with a private news channel, Qureshi had said if the kingdom failed to summon the meeting, Pakistan would be ready to go for a session outside the OIC.

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