It is not possible for the Muslims of Britain to tolerate a Prime Minister who continues to look away from the major cause of Pakistan’s suffering – the sixty years of bloodshed in Kashmir. The ongoing Kashmir occupation by the brutal hindu regime in India has imposed on Pakistan decades of wars, conflict and impoverishment.

It is time for the Prime Minister to face up to the British Government’s most shameful and destructive act – the 1947 Partition Agreement which in its ill-advised haste and incompetence not only caused the death of millions of refugees but put on the Muslims of the Sub-Continent the curse of a corrupt Partition.

Everyone knows that the Partition was disgraced by the notorious affair of the Viceroy’s wife with the hindu leader, Nehru. The changes to the frontier of Kashmir are well-documented. Yet the matter remains unconfronted and un-admitted.

It is time that the significant sector of the British electorate – its Muslim Community – receives an apology from its government for this, the greatest of all the colonial crimes. That in itself is not enough.

It is time for the Foreign Minister to insist at the relevant political institutions that India grant Kashmir a referendum. Note should be taken of the World Court’s validation of Kosovan independence from Serbia.
We want a Kashmir Referendum now – finally.

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