Anti-Pakistan sentiment
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Anti-Pakistan sentiment, also known as Pakophobia or Pakistanophobia,
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India
Ideological
Indian nationalists led by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to make what was then British-ruled India, as well as the 562 princely states under British paramountcy, into a single secular, democratic state.[6] The All India Azad Muslim Conference, which represented nationalist Muslims, gathered in Delhi in April 1940 to voice its support for an independent and united India.[7] The colonial authorities, however, sidelined this nationalist Muslim organization and came to see Jinnah, who advocated separatism, as the sole representative of Indian Muslims.[8] This was viewed with dismay by many Indian nationalists, who viewed Jinnah's ideology as damaging and unnecessarily divisive.
In an interview with Leonard Mosley, Nehru said that he and his fellow Congressmen were "tired" after the independence movement, so weren't ready to further drag on the matter for years with Jinnah's Muslim League, and that, anyway, they "expected that partition would be temporary, that Pakistan would come back to us."[9] Gandhi also thought that the Partition would be undone.[10] The All India Congress Committee, in a resolution adopted on 14 June 1947, openly stated that "geography and the mountains and the seas fashioned India as she is, and no human agency can change that shape or come in the way of its final destiny… at when present passions have subsided, India’s problems will be viewed in their proper perspective and the false doctrine of two nations will be discredited and discarded by all."[11]
Giving a more general assessment, Paul Brass says that "many speakers in the Constituent Assembly expressed the belief that the unity of India would be ultimately restored."[15]
Hindu nationalist critiques
As per journalist
M. S. Golwalkar, who was the leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and thus one of the most important Hindu nationalist voices, also saw Pakistan as continuing "Islamic aggression" against Hindus: "The naked fact remains that an aggressive Muslim State has been carved out of our own motherland. From the day the so-called Pakistan came into being, we in Sangh have been declaring that it is a clear case of continued Muslim aggression (...) we of the Sangh have been, in fact, hammering this historical truth for the last so many years. Some time ago, the noted world historian Prof. Arnold Toynbee, came forward to confirm it. He visited our country twice, studied our national development at close quarters, and wrote an article setting forth the correct historical perspective of Partition. Therein he has unequivocally stated that the creation of Pakistan is the first successful step of the Muslims in this 20th century to realise their twelve-hundred-year-old dream of complete subjugation of this country."[20]
On the more popular level, there have been many anti-Pakistan rallies involving the burning or desecration of Pakistani flags.[21]
Sports
In February 2011, the
Media
Several major
In 2012, Raj Thackeray and his party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) told Indian singer Asha Bhosle not to co-judge in Sur Kshetra, a musical reality show aired on a local television channel that featured Pakistani artists alongside Indians. The MNS threatened to disrupt the shoot among other consequences if the channel went on to air the show. However, amid tight security in a hotel conference, Bhosle played down the threat, saying she only understood the language of music and did not understand politics.[32] In the past, Shiv Sena has disrupted concerts by Pakistani artists in India.[25] In October 2015, Shiv Sena activists assaulted Indian journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni and blackened his face with ink; Kulkarni was due to host a launch event for former Pakistani foreign affairs minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book in Mumbai.[25] The Shiv Sena have also blocked the screening or promotion of Pakistani films in Indian cinemas, or Indian films starring Pakistani actors, as well as threatening Pakistani artists in Maharashtra.[33][34][35]
According to one Indian minister, Kiren Rijiju, much of the obsession with Pakistan is limited to North India due to historical and cultural reasons.[36]
More recently following the
In 2023, Sunny Deol's Gadar 2 was prohibited in Pakistan because they depicted Pakistan in a negative light . Tensions escalated even more .
Bangladesh
The relationship between
However, many other sources including Bengali/Bangladeshi sources[41] have challenged the Bangladeshi narrative of the war, such as the alleged genocidal acts by the Pakistani armed forces including mass rape.[42]
Pakistani writers meanwhile have also published their own works challenging the allegations of the Bangladeshi government on the events of the 1971 war.[43]
In 2012, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) abandoned a planned cricket tour in Pakistan indefinitely amid fears over players' safety, following protests by Bangladeshis and a Facebook campaign against the visit.[44]
In response to
A 2014 PEW opinion poll found that 50% of Bangladeshis held a favorable view of Pakistan.[46]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan–Pakistan relations have been negatively affected since Pakistan's independence from the British Raj. American scholars cite that Afghanistan was the only country to vote against Pakistan's admittance into the United Nations. They also cited Afghanistan's hostility against Pakistan since its independence from British rule.[47]
Issues related to the
.In the 1990s,
In the course of the Taliban insurgency anti-Pakistan sentiment was again fuelled after a spate of
Anti-Pakistan sentiment has increased in Afghanistan after hundreds of suicide bombings and assassinations.[56] In 2017 there were large protests in parts of Afghan provinces, alleging that Pakistan was sponsoring unrest in the country.[60]
France
After the July 2005 bombings in London, there were waves of "Pakistanophobia" in France. A Pakistani community leader said a "right-wing newspaper, for instance, launched a ferocious campaign against Pakistanis in France and placed them in one basket, calling them a 'cause for concern.'"[61]
Israel
There has been some anti-Pakistani sentiment in
Israeli journalists have also criticized Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.[64]
Turkey
A Turkish vlogger on social media claimed in 2023 that the presence of Afghans in Turkey has led to a crime hike in the country. But because many of these Afghans entered Turkey on forged Pakistani documents, locals there presume them to be Pakistanis and so the sentiment against Pakistanis there has deteriorated badly.[65]
However, according to the BBC polls in 2017, 58% of the population had a favorable view on Pakistan .
United Kingdom
As of 2005[update], the
British Pakistanis were eight times more likely to be victims of a racially motivated attack than white people in 1996.[68] The chances of a Pakistani being racially attacked in a year is more than 4% – the highest rate in the country, along with British Bangladeshis – though this has come down from 8% a year in 1996.[citation needed] According to a 2016 YouGov survey, around 20% of respondents were against admitting immigrants from Pakistan and four other countries – Turkey, Egypt, Romania and Nigeria.[69]
Paki-bashing
Starting in the late 1960s,
United States
Public opinion polling shows that the United States has one of the most anti-Pakistan sentiment of any country with 69% expressing a negative view in a 2014 BBC poll.[74]
Since the
In 2006, Hasan, a
See also
- Pakistani people
- 2021 anti-Pakistan protests
- Anti-Indian sentiment
- Anti-Afghan sentiment
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