What is the meaning and usefulness of Pakistani British community's support to the Labor Party or Prime Minister Tony Blair who never misses any opportunity to equate Kashmiri political struggle with terrorism. Although it was the government of this country in 1947 which first encouraged India to annex Jammu and Kashmir with the force of her army and later gave unqualified support to a UN sponsored plebiscite in Kashmir.

Where does lie the wrong? Is it the failure of the Pakistani Muslim perception and the success of Indian maneuvering in UK or Pakistani community and its representatives in the parliament and Labor Party have failed to run successfully their campaign for the right of self determination of Kashmiris or is it failure of Muslim diplomacy and politics in UK.

If Britain's influential Pakistani and Kashmiri community leaders cannot change the biased view of Mr. Blair towards Kashmir movement then the community should decide once for all to review their relations with this party. Both Azad Kashmiri leaders and British Pakistani leaders would have to answer these questions as to why they were so enthusiastic for Tony Blair in the last elections. Nobody should take Kashmiris for granted.

I am raising these questions in the context of an article entitled "Muslim Statesmanship on trial by Tanvir Ahmed Khan a former foreign secretary of Pakistan. He writes in daily Dawn thus,

"The fact of the matter is that far too many Muslim states, including Pakistan, have embraced the United States' global war on terrorism uncritically. The attempt to locate Islamic resistance to foreign occupation everywhere in its matrix is false and motivated. Mr. Blair's Los Angeles speech was an unabashed bid to present Hezbollah's long resistance to Israel as terrorism but he also took a swipe at Kashmir and included the struggle there in the same net. It is time that the Muslim rulers distance themselves from this imperial project and address their internal problems, be they of ethnicity, sectarianism or sheer political violence, in their proper and specific framework. They have to find the right template to achieve their own balance between extremism and moderation."

Similar questions are raised by people about a recent statement of US Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Bushier during his press conference in New Delhi alleging Pakistan of being the place of terrorism against India. Here again we can say that Pakistani community leaders, diplomats and Kashmiri groups and their leaders in the United States should ponder overthis contradictory state of affairs.

Why should America take our support for US policies granted and himself be free to discover new ways and means of relations with India and Israel to make the two states day by day stronger against Muslim countries. Do we lack courage and wisdom to stand by our own national interests whether in Kashmir or Palestine or any other region? Because our unqualified support to the policies of west and America during the last several decades have taken us to failure while as India was supported by US and west when former was in the soviet camp and our countries were in the military pacts of west.