UK debate on Kashmir a damp squib

[KALKI]

UK debate on Kashmir a damp squib​

LONDON: A move in British parliament to embarrass India over rights violations in Kashmir virtually fell through with less than 30 of the 640 House of Commons members attending a debate on it. The house's business committee also disallowed a demand for a vote on the motion.

Even Conservative Party MP Steve Baker, who initiated the debate, was hesitant in being too critical of India. British foreign office minister Alistair Burt rejected demands for interference in India's internal affairs and even the expression in the house put on record was made non-binding on the government. "It is not for the UK government either to prescribe or mediate in a solution to the situation in Kashmir. It is the long-standing policy of the British government that this is a matter for the Indian and the Pakistani governments, taking into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people," Burt said before the debate.

More than one MP pointed out that the British Foreign & Office's latest human rights report said there were human rights violations "on both sides" of the Line of Control. Baker said the House of Commons should not indulge in "cheap condemnation of India". He advocated a need for being "even-handed".

"We should not be too quick to criticize (the Public Safety Act, a preventive detention law in Jammu & Kashmir that triggered the debate),'' Baker said. He cited the "control order" that exists in Britain and has been widely applied in Northern Ireland not dissimilar to the PSA.

Accusations of human rights violations, the need to resolve the dispute by "democratic self-determination" and the recent discovery of mass graves in Jammu & Kashmir countered such favourable remarks. MP Shabana Mahmood of the *** origin said a "resolution was needed of the dangerous dispute" and called upon Britain and the international community to intervene. MP after MP ostensibly standing up for "British Kashmiris" admitted that a large number of their constituents were Kashmiris.

Pakistan high commission in London has reportedly, for decades, used this community to press British lawmakers into raising the Kashmir issue to Islamabad's advantage.

UK debate on Kashmir a damp squib - The Times of India

So much 'Kashmir cause'.

 

[Ammyy]

less than 30 of the 640 House of Commons members

Dont these 30 members have some work to do ??

 

[blood]

this will be a big blow to the pakistani efforts to raise international attention on their kashmir demands , ha ha just shows that how successful our diplomacy has been , otherwise in U.K i guess there are many other issues the brit lawmakers would like to discuss which are of higher priority rather than discussing kashmir issue .

 

[hawx]

lol when will pakistan realize that kashmir is not going anywhere within a decade india will be a very big player in world politics and big players can do whatever they want !

eg: america !

 

[EastWest]

Another utter flop show by 'freedom fighters'

 

[Bhairava]

Dont these 30 members have some work to do ??

Maybe the lobbyists who might have arranged for it announced that free snacks and refreshments will be served

 

[karan.1970]

lol when will pakistan realize that kashmir is not going anywhere within a decade india will be a very big player in world politics and big players can do whatever they want !

eg: america !

Pakistan authorities already know this for decades.. However this is the only plank they have to keep their population distracted from the obvious other issues like extremism, economy etc etc.. Hence this card never goes back into the deck

 

[blood]

Dont these 30 members have some work to do ??

out of 30 , atleast 10 would have been of pakistani origin

 

[Bhairava]

like unchallenged big player and only police of the world in the beginning of 21st century found to be reduced to pauper after 10 yrs by rag tag taliban.like another big player of the time in 1980s USSR still biting dust and broken down by same Mujahideens.Debates and all are pass times lazy people those who wish to chart the course of history they do it through guns.And Inshallah kashmir's course will be charted not by some debate but by AK-47s of same Mujahideens.As mow has famously said "power flows through the barrel of guns" not through some idiotic debates.

I dont know who you are but let me correct the few obvious mistakes in your post.

!) US may be down but not out. Still its the pre-eminent economic and military superpower in the world and the Americans have this funny habit of bouncing back from the worst of positions. So regarding this, just hold your horses.

2) Regarding the Soviets, do you know they were having a fun time blasting the Mujaheddin sitting in their Hinds unless Uncle Sam came in with their stingers ? So it was not the Mujaheddin who defeated the USSR but rather the US stingers and the Saudi Dollars.

3)Regarding Kashmir 64 years have passed by and everything under the sun has been tried from outright invasions, to armed insurgencies to civil disobedience to downright arson. Nothing changed the political map of Kashmir and nothing in the future will. And yeah keep chanting Inshallah. Maybe that can create a miracle.Other than that I cant think of anything else.

 

[venu309]

like unchallenged big player and only police of the world in the beginning of 21st century found to be reduced to pauper after 10 yrs by rag tag taliban.like another big player of the time in 1980s USSR still biting dust and broken down by same Mujahideens.Debates and all are pass times lazy people those who wish to chart the course of history they do it through guns.And Inshallah kashmir's course will be charted not by some debate but by AK-47s of same Mujahideens.As mow has famously said "power flows through the barrel of guns" not through some idiotic debates.

Why do you want to hide behind the Indian flag? Are you ashamed of your own country's flag?

 

[AkhandIndia]

its really positive

 

[blood]

Why do you want to hide behind the Indian flag? Are you ashamed of your own country's flag?

dude just ignore him , the kind of miserable situation his country is in , we can expect such things

 

[KALKI]

like unchallenged big player and only police of the world in the beginning of 21st century found to be reduced to pauper after 10 yrs by rag tag taliban.like another big player of the time in 1980s USSR still biting dust and broken down by same Mujahideens.Debates and all are pass times lazy people those who wish to chart the course of history they do it through guns.And Inshallah kashmir's course will be charted not by some debate but by AK-47s of same Mujahideens.As mow has famously said "power flows through the barrel of guns" not through some idiotic debates.

Great!

So when are you blowing yourself up for the Kashmir 'cause'?

 

[scrumpy]

BBC Democracy Live - Debate on Kashmir

 

[livingdead]

I think we should give more power to kashmir govt... they should be the one responsible for democracy there.