I am proud to be British Indian. Indian by heritage and British by birth and nationality. But when is it right to put another country before your own – which incidentally is as close to treason as one can be.
Imagine the British Pakistanis behind Conservative Friends of Kashmir. They are proud to be Pakistani as much as I am Indian. But it’s wrong to put another country before your own when:
The values of that country, of theocracy by Constitution are against the values of Britain. Then seeking to expand that Constitution into the Indian territory of Kashmir is wrong.
It is wrong when there is a pandemic in Britain and your obsession lies with matters elsewhere. It is wrong when you bring religion into politics. That is a toxic mix and India and Britain suffered for it through bloodshed that Britain became a liberal democracy and India lost a segment of her population in 1947 who wanted to keep religion and politics intertwined and they went on to form Pakistan.
It is wrong when you do the bidding of a Prime Minister who at the UN invokes nuclear war and religion.
As Mijito Vinito, the first secretary at India's UN mission to the United Nations, said, “This Hall heard the incessant rant of someone who had nothing to show for himself, who had no achievements to speak of, and no reasonable suggestion to offer to the world. Instead, we saw lies, misinformation, warmongering, and malice spread through this Assembly. The words used today at this great Assembly by the leader of Pakistan (Imran Khan) demean the very essence of the United Nations.”
For British nationals to support the values and political views of the Prime Minister of another country is wrong when his views are those of Imran Khan.
And a simpleton may say, but what of people supporting PM Modi? You clearly have not been paying attention if you wish to equate the Indian and Pakistani PM’s political views. You clearly do not read the invocation of religion in virtually every tweet of the PM of Pakistan. You do not see a religious republic by constitution is something very different to the Constitution of India.
You may dislike India’s political ruling party, its PM. But the values of the nation, the constitution is not what you can dislike. And that is the difference.
And I tell you this, Pakistan claims now under Khan parts of Gujarat as Pakistani. Like Kashmir you may not know these too went to the UN. I will not play words or legalities or plebiscite. The national security of India demands those parts of Gujarat are Indian. Cry all you want that a maharaja said this and a plebiscite said that. So too with Kashmir.
Let alone the legalities lie in India’s favour. Even if they did not and the plebiscite would and even if it did not, national security and the UN demands Pakistan withdraw its troops from the areas the UN in 1948 said it illegally invaded. The world needs less Pakistan not more. One less place for Bin Laden’s ilk to hide.
Conservative Friends of Kashmir are no friends of Britain but the useful idiots of Pakistan.
