Discredited West ought to keep quiet on Kashmir
ful leader of a major oil-producing country, the Western world openly backed the Arab Spring that attempted to remove him from power.
A multinational coalition led by Nato entered the country, ostensibly to protect civilians but mainly to oust Gaddafi.
Human catastrophe
Since then the country has witnessed two major civil wars, with the second, ongoing since 2014, claiming thousands of lives.
Barack Obama, the US president at the time, admitted in public that supporting the removal of Gaddafi was among the biggest errors of his administration.
This could open the door for IS to rise again.
Pressure on Turkey will not work as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to push the three million Syrian refugees living in his country into Europe if his actions are objected to.
Western support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE has resulted in their interference in the crisis in Yemen, leading to a face-off with Iran and making Yemen the worst human catastrophe of recent times.
The turmoil in Afghanistan exists because US-led Nato forces neither adopted the correct strategy of hitting the Taliban leadership in Pakistan nor deploying the necessary civilians in Afghanistan, for which no action has been taken against those who erred.
This is because the West believes that they possess immunity for their actions.
The US’ maltreatment of Afghan prisoners is well documented.
Uncertainty still exists in Afghanistan, where US strategies and end goals have regularly changed.
No one is certain whether Trump will pull another Syria in Afghanistan and withdraw all forces, leaving the country to its fate.
All this shows that wherever Western nations have ventured, they have left behind chaos and confusion.
The result has been thousands of innocent casualties that would never have occurred if they had acted in good faith and not for their narrow national interests.
The large-scale migrations into western Europe is a result of their follies and interfering in regions where they neither comprehend the realities nor stay on until they achieve the desired objectives. They walk in and walk out, leaving chaos behind.
Despite their failures everywhere, they still have the gall to advise India, which has kept Kashmir under control despite changing its status.
These Western politicians have never bothered to understand the reasons why India acted how it did and the intentions behind continuing with restrictions.
Their biased notions are based on a few write-ups in the Western media.
They comment without comprehending the realities and India’s responsibility to protect lives.
Their only belief remains that they consider themselves to be guardians of human rights, whereas everywhere that they have interfered, human rights have been ignored, if not extinguished.
With such a miserable track record, politicians in the Western world should be examining their own failures, rather than advising a nation which has an excellent human rights record.
The day India seeks to openly criticise these nations for the damage they have caused to the world on the pretext of rectifying a wrong, they would have no answers.
India as a policy should ignore their criticism, or in case they do not desist, remind them of their debacles.