In 1995 I worked for a US Congressman. He is still in the US Congress. His name is Eliot Engel. One of my jobs was to collect the signatures of the other Senators and Congressman who supported one of his Resolutions put before Congress and letters to the US State Department and the Clinton White House.
That lobbying effort? To have Pakistan declared a terrorist State by the US. Now note the date. 1995. When in 2017, Indians lose the cricket – Indians were unhappy for about 30 seconds. You know why? 30 seconds later, they thank the lord they will always be Indian. When Pakistanis win, they will be happy for 30 years. Why? The nation is a global embarrassment.
I have no problems with the regular Pakistani, who has no problem with me.
But as a nation, Pakistan will always seek to maintain instability and its perception as a victim so it has a lever for western funds. It won't want to earn its way in the world as India and the UK show they have to. Pakistan needs to realise that although work and capitalism is hard effort, it's a better option than terror and handouts and the West can't deceive itself any longer because the game is in the public domain now - a game that was concealed and deniable since 1980.
This is the start of the endgame and a greater advantage for the UK and setting it apart from its EU and US competitors for strength of relationship with India. This is more like a coalition relationship between UK and India which is what a special relationship is and an inevitable recognition of ground reality.
India has to do what has been done to Qatar. Encircle and embargo should be the name of the policy. India has to do that the way Saudi did at last to Qatar. Pakistan has shown it can export terror, it can export drugs, it can export child grooming immigrants.
The worst thing that will come out of the attack on innocent Muslims practicing their right to freedom of religion in the UK, is some moron will say that you cannot say anything about child grooming, anything about terror, anything about drugs, because you are using hate speech.
We are not. We know 99% of Pakistani Muslims, Muslims everywhere are the loveliest people on the planet practicing the religion of peace. We know this from TV documentaries, and history programmes and the press and Muslims themselves.
Enjoy your cricket victory Pakistan. It’s hard being you.
