Diplomacy is a tough art to master, on an honest note. For India, thanks to the utopian ideals of our failed socialist leaders at the helm in the past, diplomacy has been nothing short of a nightmare. It’s even more ironic, when one thinks of India being poor at diplomacy, despite being the first nation in the world to teach so, courtesy our shrewd political genius, Acharya Chanakya.
However, post two small but important victories nonetheless, it looks like the art of tactful diplomacy, which means of winning psychological battles without even raising an arm, is being rediscovered, under the patronage of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, and his able coterie of external affairs personnel, led by the outstanding Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj. With the significant victories in case of Tejinder Singh Dhillon and Uzma Ahmed, who were discriminated abroad, I can say with pride that India is rising on a diplomatic approach.
But who are Tejinder Singh Dhillon, and Uzma Ahmed?
Tejinder Singh Dhillon, is a decorated ex Inspector General of Police from the CRPF [Central Police Reserve Force], which is primarily deployed with the tasks of cleaning out the dirt in Kashmir Valley and Central India, infested by terrorists at the present. When he entered Canada, he was barred from proceeding forward by the Canadian immigration authorities. When asked for the reason for which the arbitrary step was taken, he was bluntly told that since he belonged to a force that is accused of ‘widespread and systemic human rights abuses, for example torture, arbitrary detention, murder, and sexual assault.”
Yes, Tejinder Singh Dhillon was denied a visa and entry into Canada, just because in the Canadian High Commission’s eyes, he came from a force that allegedly abused human rights. A rational can be shocked at such blatant discrimination, but he / she shouldn’t forget, that this is Canada, which is headed by a Canadian Rahul Gandhi, who goes by the name of Justin Trudeau. I say the ‘Canadian Rahul Gandhi’, because Justin has neither acumen nor political practice. For such people, anybody who fights for the country is a criminal of human rights, and must be denied any link to a life with dignity. Ironically, Tejinder Singh Dhillon was denied entry into Canada, despite a Canadian Sikh being the Defense Minister.
As soon as the matter came to light, India strongly objected to the same and took the matter straight with the Canadian government. Realizing the gravity of the incident, the Canadian government was not only forced to apologize for the grave blunder, but also had to issue a renewed visa to Mr. Dhillon on their own expense.
This is not all. Buoyant by his victory, Dhillon blamed it squarely on the newly created Canada Border Service Agency. “They are all young people. I don’t think they are much experienced and probably they don’t know how to conduct themselves. But their powers are supreme and they are misusing their powers.” “The system needs to be screened, they need to be more educated, they need to respect the dignity of every human being who enters in Canada,” he added.It turns out, Canada thought of not messing with India better.
However, the second person in question again exposes the shameless quality of losing with fanfare that Pakistan sports proudly. A notorious flag bearer of the ideals of Islamic imperialism since 1947, Pakistan has always been a sore in the eyes of their neighbors, be it India or Afghanistan. On backfoot ever since they lost face down to Indian advocate Harish Salve’s legal acumen at the International Court of Justice with respect to the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, Pakistan this time lost to its own court of judiciary, in case of the woman named Uzma Ahmed.
Uzma’s case is the best example of a love story gone horribly wrong. She had met her husband Tahir in Malaysia a few years back. They fell in love, and would apparently marry each other. However, Tahir Ali, who lives in Buner, a backwater region in the Khyber Pakhtunwa province, begged Uzma allegedly to come to Pakistan, so that they could marry with the blessings of his parents.
It was only when Uzma arrived in Pakistan, when she got to know the reality of her situation. Lured into a car, when she arrived at Wagah land border, by her husband, she was drugged, kidnapped, and trafficked to Buner, where she not only discovered that Tahir was already married to a woman, but also forced to marry him on gunpoint. She managed to escape that hell with great difficulty.
Arriving at Islamabad, she appealed for freedom before the High Court and the Indian High Commission, and refused to vacate the premises until she got justice. In her own words, as she came back to India, ‘Pakistan is a living hell. It is very easy to get there, but very difficult to return back.’
Led by a concerted effort of the Indian High Commission and the Ministry of External Affairs, the Indian side successfully convinced the Court to rule in the favor of the woman Uzma Ahmed, securing another important diplomatic victory, right in the face of the imperialist Pakistanis, who wish to pressurize India by threatening to hang Kulbhushan Jadhav.
I just saw an image of Uzma touching the holy Indian ground when she stepped into the Indian border. I dream then of our ex commander, Shri Kulbhushan Jadhav, smiling and touching the same with respect, and unlike some great idealists, who waste their time in blocking folks on Twitter, I believe and I assert that this can be a reality in a few weeks, courtesy our own Indian government, diplomatically strong like never before.
