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Finally, in 1947 after looting and half a million Kashmiri Pandits were Ton 25th September on Kashmir of Labour Party have stooped to the level plundering India for around 200 years, thrown out of valley 30 years ago. Their about abrogation of Article 370 and of appeasement of Muslim community in the Britishers were forced to leave India women were raped, and children and 35 A, in Brighton. The motion stated England. but they still played to their wicked ways men butchered, their houses were burnt that Kashmiris should be given right and spilt India one more time on religious down and businesses looted. None of the It’s a basic human nature that even if of self- determination and that Labour lines. Hence, Pakistan was created for so-called human rights agencies of the you are told a lie, a thousand times, you Party stands with Kashmiris fighting Muslims and India for Hindus. It is so world ever uttered a word when all this tend to start believing it. This is what is against the Indian occupation. The ironical that 72 years after independence was happening on the nefarious designs exactly happening in case of Kashmir Indian government and the diaspora there are more Muslims in India than of Pakistan. issue. Pakistan has been constantly community’s world over have reacted very in Pakistan and majority of them are spreading lies all over the world, at It is the moral duty and a legal right sharply against this partisan and divisive flourishing in their chosen areas and are almost every forum so now some people of a sovereign nation to protect its politics of UK Labour Party and have faithful to the country, they made their have actually started believing it to be citizens and to take any corrective lambasted it, telling them to come out home. Indian history goes back thousands true. Unfortunately, successive Indian measures to rectify the mistakes of past, from the colonial hangover. India has paid of years and Jammu and Kashmir has governments in the past have been on this is what exactly the present Indian a heavy price in last 72 years for the sins always been an integral part of India for defensive about this Pakistani propaganda government has done. It is completely committed by the former colonial rulers several thousand years while Pakistan till Modi government came to power in India’s internal matter and the country is before leaving India. was created only in 1947 by dividing 2014 and decided to take the issue head capable of solving it without any outside India. The Kashmir has always been ruled India’s Foreign Minister reacted sharply on. Hence Mr. Modi is the enemy number interference, this is what India has told by Hindu rulers for centuries including stating that there is no question of one of these fundamentalist groups and to the world’s superpower, USA also. It the last ruler Maharaja Hari Singh. So, engaging any Labour Party members they are now targeting India & Modi with is so ridiculous that the same people Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir is laughable. on this issue, he further said that the more vengeance and hatred. kept silent when Kashmiri Pandits were They don’t have any ethical or moral right Labour Party is just pandering its vote thrown out of valley some 30 years back. Anyone having a little knowledge of to even talk about Kashmir. As far as the bank interests. The motion was submitted Not a word was said to sympathise with the India-Pakistan conflict background majority of population is concerned, the by a Pakistani lobbyist Uzma Rassol, their human rights & to their agony. needs to understand few very important non-Muslims native Kashmiri Pandits who is part the ‘hate India and spread Now, the same people are crying foul and points. Just until a couple of centuries were systematically killed and thrown out lies’ brigade, which is active in Britain talking of human rights when the Indian back, India had its boundaries spread of the valley on behest of Pakistan and for many years. These fringe groups government shuts down internet for a up to Iran to its west and to Burma to some of its supporters in Kashmir. This carry one-point agenda of Pakistan, to month or clamps down curfew in some its east.