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  • Why my dream of visiting Pakistan will never become a reality

    Why my dream of visiting Pakistan will never become a reality

    I am very keen to visit Pakistan, and see the beautiful places and meet the wonderful people there. But I know this will remain only a dream

    https://www.sunrisetoday.pk/single/315

    https://indicanews.com/justice-katju-my-dream-of-visiting-lahore

    I am particularly keen to see Lahore, with which I have a strong 125 year old connection from the time of my revered grandfather D KN Katju who went to study there in or around 1900.

    Many Pakistanis have invited me to come to Pakistan.

    However I cannot come due to these reasons :

    (1) I will never get a Pakistani visa, since I have repeatedly called Pakistan a fake ( farzi ), artificial country, created by a British swindle called Partition in 1947, on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, and said it is part of India ( like Bangladesh ) to which it will be reunited one day.

    https://www.outlookindia.com/national/pakistan-is-a-fake-and-artificial-country-news-284178

    https://www.nation.com.pk/02-Mar-2013/the-truth-about-pakistan

      I explained this in my video interview to my friend Haider Raza, a Pakistani who lives in California, and took my interview there

    (2) Even assuming I get a visa, the chances are that I will be bumped off by some fanatic the moment I step down from the aircraft on Pakistani soil.

    This is because I have repeatedly said that all religions ( which would include Islam ) are false and superstitions, and the truth lies in science, which is constantly developing

    http://justicekatju.blogspot.com/2016/07/religion-and-science-are-diametrically.html

    https://thephilox.com/on-religion-by-justice-markandey-katju-9th-part

    I have also praised Mustafa Kemal who modernised Turkey, and asked Indian and Pakistani Muslims to give up sharia, burqa, madasas and maulanas, as these are keeping them backward.

    Feudal ideas and practices must be suppressed

    I have said that Islam came in the world as a great liberating force, as it spread the great message of equality, from Spain to Indonesia, and gave social emancipation to the suppressed sections of society ( e.g. dalits in India ), but today it has largely become an enslaving force because of sharia, burqa, madarsas and maulanas.

    (3) My Pakistani friends who invited me said that they will ensure state security for me in Pakistan.

    But even the then Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was shot by his own security guard Mumtaz Qadri, just as Indira Gandhi was shot by her own guard Satwant Singh. The Praetorian Guards in ancient Rome, whose duty was to protect the Emperor, often assassinated him.

    https://thefridaytimes.com/03-Jul-2024/pakistan-s-intelligentsia-does-not-properly-understand-blasphemy-vigilantism

    Thus the so called ‘security’ is in fact no security. There are plenty of extremist organisations in Pakistan which would be happy to bump me off e.g. Tehreeke Labaik, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Tehreeke Taliban, Jaish-e-Mohammed, etc

    (4) The Pakistan army are the real rulers of Pakistan, and they have unleashed a fascist reign of terror in Pakistan after the events of 9th May, 2023 ( which many say were stage managed ). 

    In several articles I have described and exposed the Pakistan army, particularly its senior officers, as a bunch of corrupt, amoral, mafia type, gangsters, looters, gundas, terrorists, rogues and rascals, and as vampires who have since long been sucking the blood of the Pakistani people

    https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2019/08/26/opinion-the-truth-about-the-pakistan-military.html

    The Pakistani Vampire

    Several army generals, serving or retired, and their relatives are millionaires, some even billionaires. They spend a large part of the government budget on themselves, enhancing their lifestyle and retirement benefits. They are some of the richest people in Pakistan, and after joining the army and getting promoted to senior ranks (major and above) their lifestyle drastically changes. They live in splendour, with huge houses, luxury cars and designer goods.

    https://theprint.in/world/corruption-runs-deep-in-pakistan-army-report/1266553

    Having said all this about them, will the generals allow me to get a visa, or allow me to live if I land on Pakistani soil ? Highly unlikely

  • Long live the brave people of Kashmir

    Long live the brave people of Kashmir

    Being a Kashmiri myself, I salute the Kashmiris who are holding massive protests and agitations in the Pakistan army occupied Kashmir against inflation, particularly huge rise in electricity bills and prices of foodstuffs.
    To many it seem that such protests will achieve nothing, but to my mind they have a historical significance.
    To my mind, the agitating Kashmiris are providing leadership to not only their own state but to the whole of India and Pakistan, in two ways. Let me explain.
    (1) The Kashmiris have rightly focused on a real, economic issue, i.e. price rise, and they have refused to be befooled by the government which usually tries to divert attention towards irrelevant issues.As the Roman Emperors used to say ” If you cannot give the people bread give them circuses ”. Unfortunately for the Pakistan Government, the Kashmiris will not be satisfied with having circuses any longer, but insist on having bread.
    Massive unemployment and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities have made life almost unbearable for most Indians and Pakistanis, not just Kashmiris.
    Kashmiris are thus showing the path ahead to all Indians and Pakistanis in this respect.
    One may recall the march of Parisian women demanding bread to Versailles in October 1789, which brought down the Bourbon dynasty, and the demonstrations for bread in St Petersburg in February 1917 which brought down the Romanovs.
    (2) The second significance of these protests is that in many places slogans were shouted ” We want freedom from Pakistan ”, and in some places even  Indian flags were hoisted.
    To my mind, this marks the beginning of the realisation among Pakistani people that in fact India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) are really one nation, sharing the same culture, which were one for 500 years ( since the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar ). Partition of India in 1947 was a British swindle, on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, perpetrated by the British through their agents Gandhi and Jinnah, and must be undone.
    The aim of Partition was to keep Hindus and Muslims fighting each other so that we remain weak and backward, and not emerge as a modern industrial giant, of which we have all the potential, and thus become another China, a big rival to Western industry with our cheap labour. ( as explained in the video below )
     Unless we reunify under a secular government and with modern minded leaders we can never emerge as a modern industrial giant, but will remain condemned to massive poverty and unemployment, appalling level of child malnourishment, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc
    The brave Kashmiris, showing magnificent and unwearied fighting spirit, undaunted by all odds, are giving much needed leadership and guidance to the people of the entire Indian subcontinent.
    Long live the brave and courageous people of Kashmir, who have hearts of tigers !
    No amount of military jackboots can cow down such valiant and indomitable people
    Justice Katju
  • The Crisis in Pakistan’s Judiciary

    The Crisis in Pakistan’s Judiciary

    6 Judges of the Islamabad High Court have written a letter to the Supreme Court Judicial Council of Pakistan, whose head is the Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, complaining of the interference in their work, threats, and snooping on them by Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies

    The lawyers have called a convention to discuss this brazen attack on the independence of the judiciary

    For quite some time it has been noticed in Pakistan that Court orders are not obeyed. For instance, the order of the Supreme Court to hold elections for the Punjab Legislative Assembly on 14th May, 2023, was simply thrown into the waste paper basket. 

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pak-parliament-rejects-sc-order-to-conduct-snap-polls-in-punjab/articleshow/99311033.cms

    The latest revelations in the letter of 6 Hon’ble Judges of the Islamabad High Court shows brazen interference by the executive with the judiciary.

    This takes us into the question why have a judiciary at all ? 

    It is in the nature of things that in every society, in all ages, there were, and will be, some disputes between the people, or between the people and the authorities. Hence there has to be a forum for peaceful resolution of these disputes, on the basis of some established principles, by professional experts who are conversant with these principles, known as Judges, otherwise they will be resolved violently by guns, bombs, swords, or lathis. Hence the purpose of a judiciary is to preserve peace in society.

    A person presents his case in court, as does his adversary, and then the judge gives his verdict. Even if a party loses, he has the satisfaction that he was given a hearing, and this pacifies him to some extent.

    But this presumes that the Judge was honest, impartial, and independent. In Pakistan, unfortunately, these features are missing. An example of this is the clearly dishonest verdict of the 3 Judge bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court, presided over by the Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, which deprived Imran Khan’s PTI party of its symbol

    https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-four-glaring-flaws-in-pakistan-supreme-court-judgment/

    A Pakistani journalist, Sohrab Barkat, of the social media forum siasat.pk, who is based in Islamabad, asked me what I would have done in this situation had I been the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

    I told him I would have taken a very tough stand. I would have closed down all courts in Pakistan until the government gives a solemn assurance that it will obey court orders ( subject of course to provisions for review, or appeal to a higher court ), and will respect the independence of the judiciary.

    I would have also sent to jail for contempt of court those who defied court orders, however high the person or persons may be

    Unfortunately the former CJP Bandial, and the present CJP Qazi Faez Isa, have proved to be spineless in this regard, and the latter has proved to be servile to the Pakistan Establishment, and a disgrace to the judiciary, like a modern Judge Jeffreys.

    Justice Katju to Justice Isa
  • Justice Katju Urges Joint Holi Celebrations in Pakistan and Bangladesh

    Justice Katju Urges Joint Holi Celebrations in Pakistan and Bangladesh

    Holi, the festival of colour, is falling on 25th March this year. I appeal to Pakistanis and Bangladeshis of all communities to celebrate it together.

    Justice Katju Urges Joint Holi Celebrations in Pakistan and Bangladesh

    Before 1857 Hindus would participate in Eid and Muharram, and Muslims in Holi and Diwali together, and there was no communal feeling among them. There were no communal riots or animosity till that time.

    In 1857 the Great Mutiny broke out, in which Hindus and Muslims jointly fought against the British. After suppressing the Mutiny the British decided that the only way to control and rule over India was divide and rule, that is, create animosity between Hindus and Muslims. 

    I may here give a historical account of an incident which occurred before 1857

    Inn the reign of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Avadh, the capital of which was Lucknow, Muharram and Holi once fell on the same day. Muharram is an occasion of ghami or sorrow (for Imam Husain, grandson of the Prophet and his 72 followers who were killed in the battle of Karbala by the forces of the tyrant Yazid) while Holi is an occasion of celebration (the festival of colours, marking the beginning of spring).

    The Hindus of Lucknow decided not to celebrate Holi that year out of respect for the sentiments of their Muslim brothers and sisters, who were in grief.

    The Nawab took out the tazia from the Bada Imambada in Lucknow in a procession and buried it in Karbala, a site in Lucknow with the same name as the place where Imam Husain was martyred. Having done so, he asked why people were not playing Holi. After being told the reason, the Nawab said that since our Hindu brethren have respected the sentiments of Muslims, it is also the duty of the Muslims to respect the sentiments of Hindus, and declared that Holi must be played the same day. And he was the first to start playing Holi and it was played all over Avadh by both Hindus and Muslims, although it was also Muharram.

    The Moghuls and other Muslim rulers and their subjects ( including Muslims ) would celebrate and play Holi with great gusto. There are many accounts and paintings to prove this, as given below.

    https://www.awazthevoice.in/culture-news/mughals-nawabas-turned-holi-into-state-festival-10495.html

    http://scroll.in/article/800900/in-mughal-india-holi-was-celebrated-with-the-same-pomp-as-eid

    https://sabrangindia.in/article/colourful-history-holi-and-islam/

    Muslims and Festival of Colours, Holi

    http://scroll.in/article/711675/these-miniature-paintings-show-how-the-mughals-and-other-indians-royals-celebrated-holi

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/phoolon-wali-holi-during-qutub-shahi-era-reflects-ganga-jamuni-tehzeeb/articleshow/90315654.cms

    https://sabrangindia.in/article/who-says-holi-just-hindu-festival-muslim-scholars-sufi-mystics-mughal-emperors-not-speak/

    https://indianexpress.com/article/research/akbars-court-to-bulleh-shah-couplets-colours-of-indias-many-religions-blended-over-holi-7823260/

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/who-says-holi-is-a-hindu-festival/story-wLBl9qfCogU9rbc1Kw6EON.html

    https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-good-faith-holi-mughal-era-colours-hindu-festival-muslim-culture-5663983/

    After 1857 the British, through their local agents, propagated the idea that Holi was only a Hindu festival, and it was unislamic to celebrate it,  and so many Muslims stopped playing it. 

    It is high time now that this false propaganda be put an end to, and all people in the Indian subcontinent again start celebrating each others festivals, including Holi, which is a symbol of our composite ‘Ganga Jamuna tehzeeb’

    In this connection, here is my interview by my Pakistani friend, Sajjad Azhar Pirzada, a journalist based in Lahore, on Holi

     Here is a beautiful poem on Holi by the great Urdu poet, Nazir Akbaradi

    And here are some Pakistani youth, both Hindu and Muslim, celebrating Holi

    I was pained to learn that a few years back the Pakistan Higher Education Commission banned Holi celebrations in Universities, calling them ‘Unislamic’, when students of Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad ( both Hindus and Mulims ) celebrated it.

    I appeal to Pakistani ( and Bangladeshi ) youth, particularly Muslims, to defy such a silly ban if it is again imposed this year, and jointly celebrate Holi this year with their Hindu brothers and sisters, with great enthusiasm, fervour and verve, and thus give a blow to religious bigotry, which is plaguing our sub continent.

  • Attempt to Silence the Media in Pakistan

    Attempt to Silence the Media in Pakistan

    Unprecedented media suppression in Pakistan as journalist's critical interview is silenced amid a government crackdown. Concerns rise over threats to free speech and expression.

    A disquieting thing happened yesterday.

    Three days back a Pakistani journalist Ali Hasnain Shah, who works as researcher/producer with Khabarhar Team of Aftab Iqbal, called me on whatsapp and said he wants to take my interview about the recent judgment of the Pakistan Supreme Court depriving Imran Khan’s PTI party of its symbol.

    I immediately agreed, and shortly thereafter my interview of about 10-12 minutes wes recorded in which I criticised the judgment. I had written an article about it earlier too.

    After the interview was recorded I asked Ali Hasnain Shah when will he send me a link so that I can post it on my fb page and twitter. He said it will be sent the next day, after it was edited.

    I waited the next day, and messaged him a few times. He replied it was still being edited.

    Yesterday morning ( i.e. 2 days after the recording ) I received his message that the editing was complete, and the video link will be sent to me between 9 and 10 a.m.

    I waited till 10.30 a.m. and when the link did not come I messaged Ali Hasnain asking as to when was he sending it ? He gave no reply. I messaged again several times, but there was no response. I tried to call him on his whatsapp number, but he would not take my call.

    In the evening I received a text message on whatsapp from him that in view of a government notification forming a JIT ( Joint Investigation Team ) to investigate ‘malicious criticism’ of Pakistan Supreme Judges and launch criminal prosecutions against the ‘offenders’, it had been decided not to air my interview, and the link would not be sent to me.

    This government notification was evidently issued because there had been tremendous criticism of the Supreme Court judgment in the media and elsewhere. The notification is contained in the article below 

    https://www.brecorder.com/news/40284030

    This notification, which threatened criminal prosecution of those who criticised Supreme Court Judges, evidently so scared and petrified the team to which Ali Hasnain belonged, that they decided to suppress my interview ( which I had given at their request ).

    I responded to the text message of Ali Hasnain by saying that another Pakistani journalist had taken 2 interviews in which I criticised the 3 judges who had given the bat symbol judgment, so what was there to be frightened and terrified about ? I whatsapped these 2 interviews to him.

    However, despite several more messages by me, and attempts to call him on whatsapp, there was no response from him and stony silence. I got only one message of only one word from Ali Hasnain ‘busy’.

    So evidently at the behest of Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and some of his colleagues, the Pakistan Government has decided to silence people who ‘maliciously’ criticise them.

    There is already power in the Court to punish for contempt and send to jail those who maliciously criticise judges. So where was the need of this notification ?

    Moreover, what is ‘malicious’ ? The word is vague, and susceptible to any number of meanings.

    In a democracy the people are supreme, and have a right to criticise judges, who are only their servants (,like all state authorities ).

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/satyam-bruyat/contempt-law-threatens-freedom/

    https://www.facebook.com/justicekatju/posts/the-case-against-arundhati-royi-have-carefully-perused-the-article-of-arundhati-/1100626633311215/

    Evidently the media and people are being silenced in Pakistan

  • Gaza and Pakistan: Justice Katju Warns of Impending Chaos

    Gaza and Pakistan: Justice Katju Warns of Impending Chaos

    There are today two stormy centres of turbulence, crisis, and confrontation in the world today, Gaza and Pakistan.

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    As regards Gaza I have already written several articles and posted a video interview on the origin and nature of the events leading upto the events of 7th October, so I am not repeating the same.

    In Pakistan, the situation has not yet reached the same level of insurrection as in Gaza, but the situation is potentially explosive, and may soon become a rebellion against the army, which has, after the events of 9th May, ( which many Pakistanis believe were stage managed ) imposed a reign of terror in Pakistan, arresting and imprisoning over 10,000 people, torturing many, and even ‘disappearing’ some, muzzling most of the media, and rendering the judiciary impotent. 

    The Pakistan army is now trying to foist on the Pakistani people the hated and corrupt former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Pakistani court for massive corruption, as evidenced by the Panama Papers, but fled to England thereafter.

    About 90% people of Pakistan solidly support former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been locked up in jail since early August, along with many of the leaders and supporters of his PTI party.

    It is thus a Pakistani army versus the Pakistani people situation.

    Presently many Pakistanis are lying low out of fear of being arrested ( though there have been massively attended meetings in KP and elsewhere in Imran Khan’s support ). 

    But this situation cannot last long. National parliamentary elections are scheduled for 8th February, and the Pakistan army will resort to every means of opposing Imran Khan’s coming to power ( which he certainly will if elections are free and fair, considering his popularity ), so the army will get the PTI banned, or resort to massive rigging.

    This will not be tolerated by the Pakistani people, who will then devise means of combating the army, by Guerilla War or other ways.

    Pakistan will become another Vietnam or Afghanistan

    Terrible times are coming in Pakistan, and it will soon become another Gaza

    The shape of things to come in Pakistan: Justice Katju anticipates

    The ‘crimes’ of Imran Khan

  • Pakistani’s behaved stupidly in celebrating India’s defeat

    Pakistani’s behaved stupidly in celebrating India’s defeat

    I was sad to see on youtube many Pakistani’s celebrating India’s defeat in the World Cup Cricket final by Australia, as if Pakistan had won the World Cup.

    Naseem Shah delivering a crucial over in the Pakistan vs. Afghanistan cricket match
    Naseem Shah delivering a crucial over in the Pakistan vs. Afghanistan cricket match

    Many Pakistanis distributed sweets, danced, and did other foolish things

    These silly and misguided people did not realise that it was their own defeat too, since India and Pakistan are really one country, with a common culture, and were one for 500 years ( since the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar ). We were temporarily and artificially divided by that British swindle called Partition in 1947, on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, to keep Hindus and Muslims fighting each other, and thus to keep us weak and backward. But we are sure to reunite one day, like West and East Germany, or North and South Vietnam, under a secular government with modern minded leaders determined to transform our subcontinent into a highly modern, highly industrialised, and highly prosperous region, with its people enjoying a high standard of living, and leading decent lives.

    https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-indian-reunification-is-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

    https://www.newslaundry.com/2015/12/08/we-must-reunite-why-pakistan-india-and-bangladesh-should-be-one-country

    https://indicanews.com/indo-pak-reunification/

    When Pakistan was defeated by England in the T20 World Cup cricket final on 13th November 2022,  I called Indians who celebrated it stupid, since it was really India’s defeat too ( since we are one nation )

    Babar Azam addresses the Pakistan cricket team - Motivation and unity for success.
    Babar Azam addresses the Pakistan cricket team – Motivation and unity for success.

    https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-did-pakistans-loss-against-england-call-for-an-indian-celebration-no/

    Throughout the World Cup series I supported the Pakistani team, regarding it my team too, and in the India-Pakistan match I supported both teams.

    So Pakistanis, it is high time you woke up

  • People’s guerrilla war in Pakistan has begun 

    People’s guerrilla war in Pakistan has begun 

    I had written articles recently predicting that a people’s guerrilla war will begin soon in Pakistan against the Pakistan military, since the latter have inflicted horrible atrocities on the people, and tried to choke the people’s mouths by unleashing a reign of terror
    https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-terrible-times-are-coming-to-pakistan/

    https://indicanews.com/justice-katju-nawaz-sharifs-return-will-set-the-pakistani-prairie-on-fire/

    It seems the people’s guerilla war has begun even sooner than I had predicted

    On Friday a guerilla attack on a Pakistan security convoy in Balochistan killed 14 soldiers

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/attack-on-pakistan-security-convoy-kills-14-military/articleshow/104950236.cms

    Thereafter there was an attack on a Pakistan Air Force base in Mianwali in central Pakistan destroying/damaging some aircraft, for which a new militant organisation called Tehreek-e-Jihad has claimed responsibility

    https://m.timesofindia.com/world/pakistan/air-force-base-attacked-in-central-pakistan-3-terrorists-killed/articleshow/104957922.cms

    .https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/4/pakistan-kills-three-militants-foiling-attack-on-airbase

    https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-is-tehreek-e-jihad-pakistan-the-group-that-attacked-pakistan-air-force-base-13346602.html

    There have been 3 terror attacks in 24 hours in Pakistan

    https://www.timesnownews.com/world/pakistans-mianwali-air-base-faces-terror-attack-tehreek-e-jihad-claims-responsibility-article-104957794

    https://newsonair.gov.in/News?title=Militants-attack-Pakistan-Air-Force-training-base-at-Mianwali-in-Punjab-province%3B-Several-aircraft-damaged&id=470700

    More such attacks on the Pakistani military and soldiers are bound to follow, as I had foreseen. For what else can the Pakistani people do when thousands of their compatriots, kith and kin have been arrested, tortured, and incarcerated in jail in horrible conditions on trumped up, concocted charges, and many just ‘disappeared’ by the Pakistan Establishment ( which principally means the army ) after the events of 9th May ( which many believe were scripted and stage managed ), and the mouths of the people gagged by fear ?

    I had written that since the Pakistan military has tried to silence the Pakistan people by terrible atrocities, and are seeking to impose the hated Nawaz Sharif on them, keeping the immensely popular former Prime Minister Imran Khan in jail in inhuman conditions since early August, a people’s guerilla war is bound to arise against the army, and Pakistan will be turned into another Vietnam or Afghanistan. Wherever there is oppression there is resistance.

    Pakistan will become another Vietnam or Afghanistan

    A contributory factor is the order by the Pakistan government to Afghan refugees who have been living in Pakistan for 4 decades or more, to get out and go back to Afghanistan.

    More than 1.7 million undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan have been told by the Pakistan authorities to leave Pakistan by November 1st, a decision which the Afghanistan Govt has called unacceptable.

    https://www.business-standard.com/cricket/world-cup/icc-cwc-why-did-ibrahim-zadran-dedicate-his-award-to-refugees-in-pakistan-123102400522_1.html

    https://www.indiatvnews.com/sports/cricket/ibrahim-zadran-dedicates-player-of-the-match-award-to-afghanistans-asylum-seekers-sent-back-by-pakistan-watch-2023-10-24-899309

    Most of these Afghans who came to Pakistan came as poor refugees fleeing from a war torn country, which had been invaded by the Soviet Union, and thereafter by the Americans, and occupied for decades. Against the invaders the Afghans bravely fought a guerilla war, but millions with their families had to flee to Pakistan, with only their clothes on their backs.

    Many of the Afghans living in Pakistan have been living there for 40-50 years, and some of them, by hard work, built businesses and acquired property. They no doubt came without visas or other documentation, but how could poor refugees be expected to have them ? To now ask them to leave, and without their properties, is inhuman. Where will they live, and what will do in Afghanistan ? Except for sentimental affinity, they may be having no roots there, having migrated a long time back. Many may not even have been born there.

    It is like asking Bangladeshi immigrants who came into Assam 40-50 years ago without documentation to leave Assam. Or like asking millions of Mexicans who came into USA  decades ago without documentation to leave.

    People who say that those who came illegally should leave must understand that this is not a legal issue but a humanitarian one, as explained in this article

    https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2019/12/13/opinion-citizenship-bill-violates-articles-14-21-of-constitution.html?__twitter_impression=true

    Evidently the Pakistan authorities forgot that they are dealing with a people who had defeated Alexander the Great, the Mughal Empire, the British Empire, the Soviet Empire, and the American Empire, and turned Afghanistan into a graveyard of invaders.

    The thick headed, harebrained, moronic Pakistani generals will only understand when a lot of bodybags containing bodies of soldiers start piling up, amidst howling and wailing of their relatives, as it happened to Americans in Vietnam, or the Russians in Afghanistan.

  • Mounting Tensions in Pakistan: Army’s Grip on Elections Sparks Fears of Unrest and Turmoil

    Mounting Tensions in Pakistan: Army’s Grip on Elections Sparks Fears of Unrest and Turmoil

    The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced that elections to Pakistan’s Parliament will be held in the last week of January, 2024.

    https://northmcd.com/pakistan-general-election-date/

    The question is whether they will be free and fair ? 

    Presently 90-95% of Pakistanis support former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his PTI party ( as all opinion polls indicate ), and if free and fair elections are held the PTI will sweep the polls. 

    However, the Pakistan army, which is the real ruler of Pakistan, is determined not to allow Imran Khan to become the Prime Minister again, and has incarcerated him in jail, and seems determined not to let him come out alive

    https://indicanews.com/the-crimes-of-imran-khan/.

    This means that the army is determined not to permit free and fair elections, and for this it will either not permit the PTI to contest at all, or will rig the elections heavily.

    The army has brought back former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with great fanfare to Pakistan, and is evidently determined to foist him as the next Prime Minister, though he is hated by the vast majority of Pakistanis, who regard him and his family corrupt ( as the Panama Papers and other evidence proves ).

    https://www.hastakshepnews.com/2023/10/nawaz-sharifs-return-will-set-pakistani.html

    In this situation it seems to me obvious that since the people have been denied all rights, and a reign of terror has been unleashed against them by the Pakistan army, a people’s guerilla war against the army is inevitable, as it happened in the early stages of the American War of Indepence, in Spain during Napoleonic rule, in Vietnam during French and American rule, in Afghanistan during Soviet and later under American rule, in Algeria during French rule, and in France ( by the Maquis ) during Nazi occupation, etc. Wherever there is oppression, a resistance is bound to arise.

    An army can fight another army, it cannot fight the masses. A tiger can kill a prey, it cannot kill a swarm of mosquitoes. The army officers who are presently trampling over the Pakistani people do not realise they are playing with fire. 

    An angry populace, whose kith and kin have been murdered or tortured and jailed, once aroused can go to any lengths, and then the conventional rules of warfare will be thrown to the winds. 

    The army officers may feel safe in their guarded houses, but their families are bound to be exposed, by the wives coming out for shopping, social visits etc and the children going to school or college, etc, and then they may be targets of people seeking revenge. 

    Dark days are ahead in Pakistan

  • Pakistan Cricket Team warmly welcomed in India

    Pakistan Cricket Team warmly welcomed in India

    I was very happy to note that the Pakistan cricket team got a rousing welcome from the Indian public on their arrival in Hyderabad, India to play in the World Cup.

    The Pakistani media, which is largely anti Indian, and many Pakistanis, were pleasantly surprised at the hearty welcome given to the Pakistan team in India

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS9Cx_RP4hg&pp=ygUvcGFraXN0YW4gY3JpY2tldCB0ZWFtIGFycml2ZXMgaW4gaW5kaWEgcmVhY3Rpb24%3D

    Pakistani Captain Babar Azam was overwhelmed by the warm welcome he received, and he said he felt he was in Pakistan

    He gave a statement that earlier he and his team were nervous about coming to India, but Indians won their hearts by the enthusiatic welcome they gave

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedF8AEmVlc

    This shows that despite all attempts by certain people to create enmity between India and Pakistan, the Indian public does not harbour any hostility towards Pakistanis, and have displayed maturity. After all, cricket is just a game, and is not war.

    My own opinion is that India and Pakistan are one country, so we should cheer the Pakistani team if it wins any match as if India has won, and if they lose we should feel India has lost.

    https://indicanews.com/2023/05/03/justice-markandey-katju-did-pakistans-loss-against-england-call-for-an-indian-celebration-no/

     In the India vs Pakistan matches, whichever team wins we should think that India has won, because Pakistan and India are really one 

    Pakistan cricket team arrives in India