Dr Shahid Qureshi http://www.weeklycu ttingedge. com/Back% 20Issues/vol3/ v3Issue41/ national% 203.htm
Many analysts believe foreign elements are using British soil, institutions and people to play dirty tricks, espionage and export terrorism and sectarianism in the third countries friendly to Britain. It is an abuse of British traditions, free society, freedom of movement and speech. Britain has become a battleground of foreign countries.
An analyst revealed, "The way Indians and Israelis are given a free hand to do whatever they want against Pakistan and Palestinians is extraordinary. It looks like Israel is a special case which India is exploiting both in Britain and the US." A senior defence analyst said, "Indians cannot do it themselves, but they use British resources against Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka etc.
There are reports that British think tanks, educational institutions and scholars are being used for poisonous and vicious campaigns against Pakistan, a move to spoil friendly relations between the two countries."
A senior journalist, talking to this scribe in a central London prestigious think tank asked, "Do you know that this place is trying to disintegrate Pakistan?" "Well, you never know but they have a gentleman from India who reportedly misses no chance to fire his 'intellectual missiles' against Pakistan, starting from arranging anti-Pakistan seminars to deleting names of vocal Pakistani analysts from the lists," a Washington based defence analyst stated.
A senior British media analyst of Kashmiri origin said, "There is a perception and impression that India wants to isolate and demonise Pakistan and is using British soil and institutions for the purpose. The latest example is the establishing of a 'Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU)' at the University of Bradford in March 2007.
Thousands of Kashmiris live in Bradford. The unit is Pakistan specific, which clearly shows its motives. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office should not fund the unit with British taxpayers' money".
There are reports that Indians have been feeding misleading and false information to British Security Services about a Pakistani cleric, Shafqur Rehman, and how his charity organization, based in Lahore, was allegedly involved in terrorism in Held Kashmir. He was the cleric from Oldham whom MI5 allegedly tried to recruit, as reported in the press. However, the cleric won the case in the end. Indians had provided newspaper clippings to security services for over two years, but the Home Office lost in the end.
Another analyst claimed, "Britain is a party to the Kashmir dispute which is the oldest in the UN history and it should pressurise India to withdraw its 900,000 troops from Occupied Kashmir and stop violating the human rights of Kashmiri people."
Meanwhile, a report, released by the All India Catholic Union, said there were 190 recorded attacks on Christians in the country till November 16, 2007, an average of four a week. There were 178 recorded incidents in 2006, and 165 in 2005. All India Catholic Union President, Dr John Dayal, stated that he was also aware of other cases, but they had not been officially reported because of fear of reprisals, particularly in Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. He said, in general, the secular people of India were tolerant of Christians, but those in authority, particularly in certain political parties, were not.
Research should be done on the racist Indian state, currently run by a minority of Brahmins, who are treating millions of Dalits (low-caste Hindus) as second class and Muslims and Christians as third class citizens. According to a Channel 4 documentary, 'Broken People', Dalits have no choice but to clean human excrements of high class Hindus and eat rats because of poverty. As far as the economic interests of Britain are concerned, between 1995 and 1998, the British trade balance with Arab countries was US$ 116,532 million.
It was US$ 23,285 million in 1995, and by 1998, it had grown to US$ 42,205 million. Keeping in view the economic interests of both the US and the UK, no one in their right mind would deliberately harm their own interests. Thousands of British citizens are working and living in the Middle East and earning tax-free foreign exchange. Policymakers should keep British economic and security interests in mind at all times.
British security services should keep an eye on the activities of all those elements who were/are harming Britain's national and economic interests in the Muslim world. It was interesting to check the arrival and departure of visitors to the United Kingdom from the Middle East before and after 7/7 London bombings of 2005 and other terrorist incidents, just to see who was in town and why.
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