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| Anti-India propaganda in London | | JK & British Media | | Neha
JAMMU, July 12: India is in a very strong position. Its case in Jammu & Kashmir is very strong. An overwhelming majority of the people in the State are committed Indians and are prepared to make any kind of sacrifice to preserve the territorial integrity of India. They have done so in the past a number of times and defeated the undesirable by making supreme sacrifices. New Delhi can in a moment puncture the Pakistani balloon and isolate the handful of Kashmiri secessionists who are also fighting with each other, pulling each other's legs and are even after each other's blood.
It is appalling that New Delhi is not doing anything to defend itself. It is basically on the defensive. The result has been that everyone is taking New Delhi for granted, abusing it and accusing it of "unleashing a reign of senseless brutalities on the Kashmiri Muslims". Islamabad has unleashed a relentless anti-India campaign and the Kashmiri separatists and their supporters outside India too have unleashed a no-holds-barred hate India campaign in other countries.
Only on Tuesday, United Kingdom's Channel 4 screened a 60-minute-long TV documentary, which challenged New Delhi's credentials as a "democracy". The documentary accused our dedicated and highly disciplined security forces in Jammu & Kashmir of being "responsible for disappearances of 8,000 Kashmiri civilians and extra-judicial executions in the past 22 years as well as for rape and torture".
It is important to note that central figure in the documentary, which was screened by Channel 4 on Tuesday evening, was none other than Pervez Imroz, a well-known India-baiter and Jammu & Kashmir High Court advocate. The programme, according to a report from London, "portrayed (Imroz as someone who had been) diligently compiling complaints of disappearances, rape and torture; and filing cases in court on these". Imroz is reportedly behind the "discovery of more than 2,000 unmarked graves which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah last year described as being mostly unclaimed bodies of foreign militants". Imroz termed these so-called unmarked graves as "prima facie evidence of war crimes". The programme also depicted gruesome examples of torture. One Kashmiri woman claimed on camera that "she was raped by security forces when she was 16 and still in school". It needs to be underlined that those who prepared the documentary were in Kashmir in 2010 at the time of stone-pelting incidents which had left over 100 rebels dead. According to the same report, "there are questions being asked whether they (stone-throwers) were tipped off by those who planned the demonstrations".
The same day the United Kingdom's one of the leading dailies, Guardian, carried an extended piece on the same subject "in a clearly coordinated assault against India's human rights record". The worst part was that no neutral party and no authority in Jammu & Kashmir or at the Centre was given an opportunity to express their point of view and put things in perspective.
All this shows that anti-India forces have established connections at some right places in London in order to paint India black by presenting things in lurid colours. What is disturbing is the bias of sections of British media towards India. Channel 4 and Guardian should have given an equal opportunity to those at the helm in the Indian High Commission in London. That the British news channel and leading newspaper Guardian acted otherwise proves that an insidious influence is work in London to cause harm to India. The Government of India needs to take up this issue and counter the anti-India propaganda being unleashed by enemies of the country. |
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