The Anti-India (Kashmir) Propaganda in UK Parliament
Written by Laxmi Kaul-
On 19th January 2017, the British Parliament saw 29 MPs debate passionately about the human rights violations by India on the people of Kashmir. The motion itself read in bold, capitals: Anti-India propaganda! It was a mockery of democracy, especially because all the MPs representing the Pakistani and Pakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmiri population, were speaking almost off a common hymn sheet. Each spoke animatedly about the cruel use of pallet guns on ‘innocent civilians’ and how dictatorial the Indian government under Prime Minister Modi is!
The timing of this debate could not be worse. While the Kashmiri Hindus (Pandits) mourned the bloody acts of 19th January 1990, as they remembered the sad, black day when they were rendered homeless overnight, at the behest of Jihadis shouting
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our Honourable MP David Nutall decided to hold a debate glorifying the terrorists sponsored by Pakistan! Not even a single mention of the armed infiltration and terror attacks sponsored by Pakistan in Jammu & Kashmir and certainly no acknowledgment of the significance of this very day by anyone except Bob Blackman, MP, and Virendra Sharma, MP, who were the only ones to lay out facts in their 10 minutes each of limited speaking time.
The actual sufferers of gross human rights violations the Kashmiri Pandits, were forced to listen to people justifying bloody retribution, killing of innocent civilians and destruction of centuries of heritage. Masked as the freedom struggle of Muslims of Kashmir valley, this ideological fight is against democracy, progress, inclusion, growth, prosperity, it is the justification of painting Kashmir in the colours of Islamic State. The events of last summer leading to Burhan Wani’s death (the so called poster boy of Jehad in Kashmir) draws parallels with Jihadi John in the West, who use social media and propaganda to promote Jehad and killings in the name of religion.
For those who were so passionately speaking without any mention of the terrorist groups sponsored by Pakistan and infiltrating Indian territory via borders of Jammu & Kashmir, I would like to remind them that at the recent India-EU Joint declaration on the fight against terrorism (30th March 2016), both European and Indian leaders condemned, the recent terror attacks in Brussels and Paris, Pathankot and Gurdaspur and recalling the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, calling for the perpetrators of these attacks to be brought to justice. Leaders called for decisive and united actions to be taken against ISIL ( D a ‘ e s h ) , L a s h k a r – e – Ta y i b b a , J a i s h e Mohammad, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the Haqqani Network and other internationally active terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
