NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-01/4124/17-19 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 16 Rs. 7.00 18 - 24 November 2019 Vol - 29 No. 42 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 North Macedonia’s Canadian TV Host path to EU accession is no Racist “You people… love our way of life…” Seven suffers a setback words uttered by Don Cherry that carried a Early Parliamentary Elections will take place degree of truth but could not conceal its racist in North Macedonia on April 12, 2020. These tone even if the 85-year-old quintessential elections were announced by Prime Minister Canadian nationalist may never have Zoran Zaev after the European Council failed intended it that way. to come to an agreement on starting talks with North Macedonia on joining the European Still recovering from an election that has Union in October 2019. 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Islamabad is just going doctored history, find it very hard to digest [email protected] to get back Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, at through the ritual of opposing India when these hard facts. least on the Indian map. some serious introspection is the actual ime has come to a full circle. Two months need of the hour. Imran Khan government’s Save some Islamist states, others have not into independence, the fledgling state Pakistan’s branding of the Modi administration’s T ranting and sustained international diplomatic bought Islamabad’s Islamist argument. of Pakistan violated its first international ‘map’, as ‘new map’ is malevolent, and its campaign can never legitimise its aggressive This over-exertion has extracted its cost; treaty-the no-aggression treaty with the rejection of the political maps as ‘incorrect adventurism of seven-decades. Pakistan’s domestically all important priorities have then princely state of Jammu and Kashmir- and legally untenable’ is in violation of the sympathies for Kashmiris are all sham. been thrown into the wind. Preoccupation and invaded Kashmir. The move, hailed as recognised geographical boundaries. There with Kashmir has taxed Pakistan’s time, Pakistan continues to repeat the slogan energy and economic resources to the that Kashmir is Pakistan’s jugular vein. It utmost. finds encouragement from recent comments of some international players on Kashmir. The international outline of the new map French Parliament’s discussion on Kashmir is exactly the same as the outline of the old and some US Congressmen allegedly asking map. Pakistan should not unnecessarily create Washington some ‘hard questions’ has caucus. It is time to move on from Kashmir encouraged Pakistan to drag the Kashmir and focus on domestic economic problems at question to the world’s attention. Indian hand. diplomats must proactively, continuously and effectively present a true picture of Pakistan’s No amount of argument is going to change excesses in Kashmir through terrorism. They the fascist designs of Pakistan over the must engage with world capitals to explain the years. Rather, the focus of its government current Indian initiatives against a rampaging should be on serving people of Pakistan. It Islamist agenda. should first resolve the issues within. The government and its entire machinery are Moving into fresh territory, overpowering kept under curfew by the Maulanas. Should it demographically through unchecked Pakistan not worry more about its economic population growth and then claiming a problems? separate Islamic state of “Sharia Law” has a strategic endeavour, literally convinced is nothing new in the Indian map. India has been the routine Islamist agenda. Let there By shouting like a hen from the rooftop, King Hari Singh to immediately accede the been claiming Pak-occupied-Kashmir as be no illusions among the world community the Pakistanis are making a fool of state of Jammu & Kashmir to India. well as certain areas of Gilgit-Baltistan as about Pakistan following a virulent form of themselves. Pakistan’s intelligence wing-ISI Indian Territory and has been waiting for extreme Islamist agenda. Terror state Pakistan is involved in genocide in Kashmir through The UN resolution is just a moot spectator these lost territories for over seven decades! has tried all it could to pass on the baton of the promotion of terror activities, and to Pakistan’s expansionist intention which “aggressor” to India which actually belongs to Xenophobic Islamabad never lets go of any was manifested when the resolution required Pakistan claims that the political map issued this Islamic state. opportunity to criticize Modi! Canadian TV Host is no Racist Cherry’s next sentence was spot on and ◆ By Tarek Fatah Author & Columnist, Canada the absolute truth. He said: “I live in Mississauga, nobody wears — very few @TarekFatah people wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto [email protected] forget it! Downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy.” “Y ou people… love our way of life…” Seven words uttered by Don Cherry If there was any doubt about Cherry’s that carried a degree of truth but could not assertion, it was removed the next evening, conceal its racist tone even if the 85-year- by Mississauga-based Pakistani-Canadian old quintessential Canadian nationalist may broadcaster Tahir Gora. He tweeted: never have intended it that way. “I attended 2 events Nov 10th evening organised by two diaspora groups in which Still recovering from an election that has I couldn’t find a single person wearing left the country divided into a patchwork poppy – I can’t name those diaspora groups of regions each reflecting conflicting otherwise I would be called a ‘racist’ by visions about our future, Cherry’s words politically correct media and politicians. But and his cowardly firing by Sportsnet on Don Cherry makes a point.“ Remembrance Day will leave a fresh wound that will further anger Canadians into rival Gora added: “It’s not about reducing them cultural and ethnic groups. [immigrants] to less Canadians. It’s about for the streetcar, I barely noticed anyone sleeps, I’m also not sure how Canada gains the feel of taking ownership of our own wearing the poppy. From the fashionistas to by burying a national treasure and, perhaps Cherry may never have heard the phrase beloved Canada. I met dozens Canadians of the burka-clad, men in suits and long coats to inadvertently, turning him into cause célèbre “you people” in a racist context before. such diaspora last night who immigrated to cabbies, the poppy was missing. Only a few that will inspire future jackasses.” However, it’s familiar to most of us who used Canada 30-40 years ago, serve as doctors, yellow-helmeted power workers seemed to to be listed as “ethnic minorities,“ and then professors and engineers here, but no be wearing it. The real villains and racists in Canada are categorized as “racial minorities,“ which poppies.” those politicians responsible for the slow was later changed to “visible minorities,“ Cherry needs to be heard instead of being and steady ghettoization of Canada with and now, I am told, defined by the neo-left On Monday, I wrapped myself in a parka and fired; educated instead of being harangued. race, religion and tribalism being promoted as “facially different.“ sat down for two hours at the intersection He is after all a Canadian icon whom we all as vote-getting tools. of Parliament Street and Carlton St. in love to hate. He is 85 and deserves a bit of As for Cherry, I don’t believe his intention downtown Toronto where $2-million homes respect rather than scorn. There are cities and towns in Ontario and was racist. It was a reflection of his anger in Cabbagetown hug co-op housing and the B.C. where one can only get elected if he or at the dying tradition of people wearing a social housing of Regent Park and high-rise The Toronto Star’s Vinay Menon said it she belongs to a particular race or religion.