"The
message to the world is that Pakistanis are a bunch of wild cavemen out to
destroy civilization. But the truth is that it's the crescent - the world
of Islam - that is under attack from the cross. … The alarming issue, of course,
is the tendency of the U.S. and Britain to look at South Asia through New Delhi's
eyes."
Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting India to boost jobs in Britain with a trade deal, has whipped up a hornet's nest in Pakistan by siding with the views of India Prime Minister Singh, who believes that that Pakistan must do more to fight terrorists.
THE fact that the British
government, in league with the media, is intent on making a monster of the nation
of Pakistan, is visible enough from a dreadful sketch of our national flag. Nothing
could be more insulting than generalizing every Pakistani as an extremist. The Islamophic anti-Pakistan tendencies of The Independent
in particular, and Western political circles in general, can be seen from the
crescent on the flag, depicted as a bearded beast trying to devour the star. The
message to the rest of the world is that Pakistanis are a bunch of wild cavemen
out to destroy the civilization. But the truth is that it's the crescent - the
world of Islam - that is under attack from the cross.
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That this distorted cartoon has
appeared on the heels of Prime Minister Cameron’s comments, which in turn came
in response to WikiLeaks’ unsubstantiated reports, leave no doubt that a
premeditated campaign to defame Pakistan is in play. The alarming issue, of
course, is the tendency of the U.S. and Britain to look at South Asia through New
Delhi's eyes. But while the barefaced impudence of John Bull [Great Britain] to
tarnish Pakistan’s image has severely shocked ordinary patriotic Pakistani men
and women, so has our ostrich-like leadership,which
has buried its head in the sand in total disregard of the country’s sovereignty.
To the detriment of its national honor, the Foreign Office took five days to summon
the U.K.'s high commissioner for a less than serious dressing down.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Indian
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh express complete agreement about how Pakistan
The result of this shameful
docility is that Mr. Cameron has refused to offer any apology and is hell-bent
on sticking to his slanderous comments. Unfortunately, riding roughshod over public
feelings and the outcry over this round of undiplomatic mudslinging, President Zardari’s decided to visit the U.K., meet its premiere and
paper over the cracks, which will serve no purpose other than to lower the stature
of Pakistan even further. By not calling off the visit, President Zardari has infuriated the ordinary Pakistani and is hinting
to hostile Western leaders that they're free to humiliate the country. Even the
flood disaster couldn't prevent this non-state presidential visit to Britain.
Furthermore, to see Foreign
Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi
play devil’s advocate by referring to Cameron’s comments as a slip of the
tongue was totally dismaying. Apart from drone attacks, this apologetic posturing
will certainly sow the seeds of additional trouble in the days to come. The
pity is that those at the helm seem least bothered about it.
