Join the dots between India sending back Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa to UAE two years ago and the Gulf countries siding with Delhi on everything from oil to Kashmir.
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India’s national interests must be the first priority for our pm, not only for our pm but for everybody.
however i do feel bad for her. but try to understand what if modi didn’t return her daughter to uae, the repercussions maybe bad. many indians live in dubai, we cannot risk their lives. hence to be very honest we can’t do anything.
Yes, India’s strategic interests are obviously greater. Human Right of one person if pays off for entire nations is a good tradeoff. Also not our citizen, his daughter, his affairs. We are benefitting hugely and happy at that.
forcibly taken off a boat off the coast of Goa ? Kidnapped by marine commandos? The princess was trying to enter without any visa etc. What do you expect the commandos to do..roll out a red carpet?
Who pays you for writing this stuff? That would be an interesting read?
She was seeking an asylum. For a person seeking an asylum because their life is in immediate danger, a VISA is not required.
Narendra Modi is really a manipulative person. My heart goes out to both the princess and I hope they get their freedom soon.
It is not a hidden fact that the situation of women in gulf countries is not really good and they are very much oppressed, while young generations are getting radicalized very quickly.
India is not party to the UNHCR 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol and does not have a national refugee protection framework. So even if it would have been a morally correct decision to offer asylum to the princess, India is not obligated to do so. And seeing how this decision, as distasteful as it may seem, would have ended up improving the relationship between the two countries and considering the consequences of the alternative, it was the correct decision taken by the Indian government.
Also, I don’t really understand how Narendra Modi is being manipulative, he is just acting in the best interest of the country.
Completely agree, PM Modi was acting in the best interests of this Country…
MODI was Paid,to send the MARCOS, he used a LIE FAKE “INTERPOL RED NOTICE”, to get the Indian Coast Guard Captains to go along with it. It was a 100% governement op, Murder the Captain and Crew, recover Latifa and Sink the boat. MODI was PAID,and paid HUGE,for ordering the job done,after a fast meeting with the BJP head of Inteligence. For National Interest…For India. Against a USA FLAGGED VESSEL in International Waters. They broke over 400 LAWS, 20 big ones, and 100s of small ones, doing what they did how they did it. Its no DEFENDING INDIA from the Princess,trying to sneak in. They GPS’d the boat, using her friends PHONE, they knew where they where since the 29th of Feb. MODI is EXTREME BJP,and a RACIST against Muslims.
People who are blatantly saying that India’s interests are more important that a women’s life are clearly lacking in any sort of moral compass and have no understanding or appreciation for the values that modern India was built on by our forefathers.
What happened to the Princess is unconstitutional as per the Indian law and ethos? We have not heard from her and do not know whether she is alright.
What happened to her is nothing short of how honor killing works in our country. If this is the new India and this is the mindset of Indians now, I am seriously worried about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and our other forefathers who laid their lives to make a just country for us
People who are blatantly saying that India’s interests are more important that a women’s life are clearly lacking in any sort of moral compass and have no understanding or appreciation for the values that modern India was built on by our forefathers.
What happened to the Princess is unconstitutional as per the Indian law and ethos? We have not heard from her and do not know whether she is alright.
What happened to her is nothing short of how honor killing works in our country. If this is the new India and this is the mindset of Indians now, I am seriously worried about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and our other forefathers who laid their lives to make a just country for us.
For preservation of family values as tradition of joint families in India, Modi did rightly to hand over Princess back to her father. The adults rights are important within the family rights, this modern so called adult rights concept had ruined the joint family pleasures.
Strategic Interest of our ountry is of paramount important than the so called individuals right of a Princess who anyway has not run away because she is being put to sword
To all those people who write here to criticise The Print or the author have to remember that this is what democracy is and The Print chooses democracy. If your leader has his way that democracy will shatter. And it already has in UP and the hini heartland.
”Modi had not only undermined the political clout of the Muslim community; he had added to the insult by enacting three laws that many Muslims felt were inimical to their community interests. The first was the triple talaq legislation, the first time Muslim personal laws were altered since 1940. The second was the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, a long-standing BJP election commitment that the pundits felt could never be implemented. Thirdly, there was the CAA which clearly distinguished between Hindu refugees and Muslim infiltrators. ” PIONEER
Jyoti Malhotra believes that (as proclaimed by herself) Kashmiri Pandits “left” the Valley on their own will. She (and her ilk) are not even willing to acknowledge the brutality and the threat that the Pandits have been subjected to. Ms. Malhotra’s mind is so perverted by the leftist anti-national ideology that her opinion on any matter is not worth even the paper on which it is written.
It is Kashmiri Muslims who are suffering rogue military’s violence and terror and Hindu-extremists’ bias. What was your 900,000 Hindu Army doing if they suffered brutality? What has Modi done to relocate them in six years? These Hindus have no need to go there where rogue Hindu Army frequently imposes curfew and denies them access to media, and so on.
There is an extra zero, there… India’s army is NOT that large.
You are a nationalist and yet you do not know the number of your military.
New name of Pakistan’s ISPR. How’s retired life and scotch? What terrorists doing in kufar land Mr. forced converted animals?
Read correct history of Kashmir and India and then write your views…It seems you don’t know anything and depends on fake news published in the name of Kashmir.
It looks writer is just feeling the space without realising comparison of various incidences. She must read history before referring any action done by BJP. This is example if one sided journalism.
Jyoti should write imaginary stories on minority rights in Islamic countries by ignoring Hindu-extremists like you who are burning in hatred for Islamic countries, but not any non-Islamic countries.
Muslims increase in every non-Muslim countries by higher birth rate and immigration. And in every Muslim countries, non-Muslims decrease every year. Muslims are very tolerant people indeed.
You KaaIoo have audactiy to say this after burning alive 50 Muslims in capital Delhi under a radical Hindu ruled party, in world’s biggest third-class democracy.
You are all saints, followers of peaceful religion, and proclaiming peace all over the world.
First I guess you must note that Hindus living in Gulf are biggest hypocrites they enjoy everything there including Abu Dhabi, Dubai desert safari earn riyals and dirhams and come back here talking rubbish about these countries. Now mr could you please tell me where are Hindus persecuted in the Gulf?!
Read the article. Understand it. Then comment. If anyone was commenting on the gulf, it was the author.
”are India’s strategic national interests more important than the adult woman’s human rights?” Yes, they are.
What is the purpose of this post? Ans: Find fault with Modi. When Modi haters (include this author) have declared him as fascist and Hitler, what else they want to prove. Can there be anything worst than being called fascist and labelled as Hitler? The pain that Modi haters are feeling is so intense that they continuously want demeaning Modi and now India itself. They have put so mud on themselves that it’s difficult to recognise them as human. They look like wild animals.
he is a DICTATOR, ever heard of FREE PRESS?
Well your India no longer has FREE PRESS.
Guess what else,
Any Indians that left DUBAI with a debt,can and are being Arrested in India and sent back to dubai to PRISON,
back to forced labor camps, soon as the flu bug is under better control.
Thank modi for Signing a Reciprocity Agreement,for DEBTERS from INDIA, that left dubai,with a debt.
your a SHEEPER.
Learn to read a book, get an education
”UK judge Sir Andrew McFarlane’s verdict certainly casts a sharp light on how the rich and powerful not only manipulate the law” This does not happen only in India or third world countries, it also happens in UK itself. How else would you explain that in 2014 alone. Indians bought properties worth more than one billion pounds in central London.
Of course with HSBC help. No one actually investigated when HSBC openly launched ‘progrom’ to further corrupt the corrupt Indians by moving their black money to safe heavens without any questions asked
UK hypocrisy has no limits. On one hand, it forces its own people, poor and middle class to disclose all bank transactions for last six months when buying any property. it looks the other way when millions changes hands in London property market. Nigerians, Arabs, chines, Russians and Indians, all buy property in millions without being asked any questions about their sources of income. India should not pay much attention what the judges say in the above case. India must do what is good for its own interests.
India must extend all help to MBS of Saudi Arabia to help him stay in power. the alternatives are disastrous for India. Idealism ha sits own place but this is hard politics.
Indian Hindutva and Saudi Wahhabi Islamist forces joining hands.
Nothing illustrates right wing fascism, trickery and cunning better. You support people who murder and cut a journalist into pieces. You really are something.
And UK supports Pakistan that is running a factory of murderers from Pirates in Sea to bombers on London streets
@Vomit: Pakistan-paranoid Biackie Hindu. Pakistan helps fight pirates in the bay by frequently holding joint naval drills with US, Russia, China, France, the UK, Japan, South Korea. You slumdogs who audacity to bring your ugIy face and talk about murderers after burning alive 50 Muslim minority in capital Delhi of world’s biggest democracy.
Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford. The towns change, but the pattern is always the same. Gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani Muslim heritage, lure white girls as young as 10 with gifts and displays of affection. Next, the girl is raped as a way of “breaking her in”. Once the child’s spirit is subdued, and her mind fogged with drugs, she is sold for sex to multiple men at £200 a time. If the girl tries to break away, a gang member might threaten to behead her or firebomb her home.
@Gopi M. Salman is fond of eating cow beef foods. A Slumdog dreaming BIackie Hindu from sheethoIe. India is supplier of upper-caste Hindu women to M. B. Salman.
In fact, you have immunity if you kill in the name of Islam. Just look at the 50,000-plus Pakistanis who have fallen to jihadi terror. Few have been arrested, leave alone tried and convicted for this slaughter of the innocent.
Muslims everywhere become enraged if a mosque is deliberately damaged. But it’s OK for Jihadis to blow them up, preferably with hundreds of believers praying inside. And it’s fine to desecrate Hindu temples, Sikh gurdwaras and Christian churches.
Irfan Hussain in DAWN
@Gopi;; No Sikh Gurdwara or Hindu temple has been desecrate. You Hindu terrorists have audacity to post myths even after burning mosques and Muslims alive in world’s biggest Hindu chacIa that calls itself a democracy. Your Hindu Army destroyed Golden Temple in 1984, and killed 30,000 Sikhs. You Hindus have audacity to post it here.
Pakistanis would be eating grass had it not been for the saudi largese.
How did this comment get nod from moderation? Useless “ThePrint”
Look at you.. pakistan still can’t get over slave mentality..forgot the pakistan sending girls to China… Our slumdongs shall become millionaire but yours shall breed in filth and die there and so shall their kids..have some shame and stop begging for money and attention
You Hindus have lived under Muslim slavery and British slavery. Supplying HinduPhuddie is work of Hindus all over the world, and to the Arab Muslims in Dubai for your IPhone.
Mulla ka lulla jala
Did any one notice how the author use the sentence “It’s been two years since Princess Latifa was kidnapped by Indian marine commandos and sent back to her father.” Kidnapped, seriously?
So first daughter was Kidnapped from UK itself. It was easier than kidnapping someone from Wassipur. No one in UK government got bribed or got jailed. …wow that would have been some operation even Mossad would not have done that..In this lies duplicity of Brits.
Why are you not worried about Modi’s wife who he kicked out? These issues seems to have affected Hindus a lot whose women want to do Love-Jihad, as Hindus burn them for dowry, kick them out after they become widow.
But as our negotiating team has discovered, the rest of the world is neither blind nor stupid. In fact, Pakistan has been given a lot of time on the grey list to block channels of terrorist financing. Now, the vice is tightening, and if our tottering economy is to avoid a mortal blow, the authorities had better deliver on their promises. Irfan Hussain in DAWN 16/3/19
Irfan Hussain sounds like a Hindu convert
UK shelters the largest no of INDIAN ECONOMIC OFFENDERS and refuses to extradite them and Jyoti is so concerned what UK COURTS who are complicit in protecting INDIAN ECONOMIC OFFENDERS say. Really!!!
Print’s hatred for Mr modi shows. A strategic win should be celebrated, as we all know that Congress could not have pulled it off. But you want to set narrative of hatred. Sadly now indian citizens know this game and hence yu are irrelevant. I only watched this news for strategic win details. Rest fake tears now dont matter. ..
UK courts are unnecessary butting into the personal affairs of a UAE Sheikh. They should concentrate on British Royal family and murder of Princess Dianna and now walking away from Royal Purse of the Prince. Write as much as you wish about the British Royal family and leave others alone.
Shame it took 70 years for Indians to get a Govt that realized this simple logic.
By begging oil and weapons and depend on moving to Christian and Muslim countries.
We have created a reality of our own. Oblivious of our iron begging bowl, oblivious of the fact that, but for the largesse of, if not infidels at least of non-Muslims, we would be a broke nation, we really subscribe to the fiction that we are a fortress of Islam. Ayaz Amir in The News
Quote Arundhati Roy who says while Hindus are sleeping on footpaths, pop lives on less than 50 cents, India’s Hindus consider itself as a Superpower.
Gotta to say something complimentary DAILY WITH PHOTO.Oh, indeed a hard profession. Just hold your nose and do it. Remember in the front page!!
When did the niceties or freedom of choice matter to previous govts made up of your ilk matter ?? Did Indira ask if India wanted emergency? Did Nehru ask Hindus if he could take over their temples and holy sites? Did Rajiv Gandhi ask us before he went into sri lanka with the IPKF??
Being blissfully ignorant of your dubious and disgraceful history to justify your prejudice against Modi and the BJP is worse than what happened to Latifa – it is like a murderer sitting in the jury of a trial convicting his victims pretending amnesia!
Each wrong is right to some one. Right and wrong are not universal as one’s terrorist is freedom fighter of other. So come out from the stupidity of right and wrong. You say “Two wrongs don’t make a right”. I say “Each wrong make a right also.”
Hehehe…looks like someone got u r liberal goat…anyway we support modi and his policies of keeping India ahead of individuals…have the TOLERANCE to accept other views…like I m ok with you feeling what you do about a princess and her rights…but guess what…I don’t give a fig…to her rights…India first..always and everytime
While I am an ardent defender of human rights, dignity, freedom and equality; the question asked here is convenient. While what-aboutry shows childish and immature thinking and must be denounced every step of the way, same treatment must be afforded to the partisan and unfair western world view.
The CIA, MI and their devil masters in power chairs, from the hideous Churchill to worse-than-Hitler, mass civilian murderer Roosevelt have done and continue to do, justify and even glorify their subhuman and inhuman acts against freedom, equality and humanity with impunity.
Our is the greatest interest of humanity to deface these murderers and the lying machinery of the west than to raise these questions concerning a single individual.
Ask what happened to Mujibur Rehman and what was the cost his nation paid, ask ergo murdered Saddam and what cost his nation paid, what history did humanity lose, ask who divided India and what cost have the two nations have paid, ask who denied a nation to Kurds and what have the Kurds paid…
ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS KEEPING THEIR IMPACT IN MIND.
We can question Britain and also India at the same time.
Certainly the UK courts are hypocrites. I think Indians should denounce the kidnapping of Princess Latifa while also bringing up the murders of people like David Kelly by the British government itself.
@ What about denial of nation to Kashmiris, Khalistanis, Nagas. Democratically electing a mass murderer Hindu-extremist as PM, and a terrorist nun Pragya Thakur who adores the killer of founder of independent India, no word on recent burning alive of Muslims by Hindus in Delhi, lock up of millions of non Hindus in Kashmir. But let’s talk about Kurd, Mujib, Saddam. Hypocrite BIackies.
Human rights are not on top of the agenda in India at the moment. 2. With the collapse in oil prices – one wonders what this will do to Aramco’s valuations – unlikely that the deal with Reliance will go through. Nor is it likely a huge refinery complex will come up on the Konkan coast. Sovereign wealth funds from the region have not in fact invested anything worthwhile in India. 3. A recent Print column explained that while autocratic rulers can hold off on issues like Kashmir and CAA, where the governments are broadly democratic, popular emotion bursts forth on the streets. What the good people of Bangladesh make of being constantly referred to as termites, fit to be cast into the Bay of Bengal, was on full display in Dacca recently. We should thank Covid 19 for the birth centenary function of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman being deferred. Also take seriously the Supreme Leader of Iran when he says India will be isolated from the Islamic world.
Iran is best advised to save it’s own citizens from the scourge of Coronavirus. Right now it has the highest mortality after China. A government which is itself an international pariah and on the FATF black list and killed more Iranians with a missile attack on a passenger plane, than those killed in Delhi’s riots is hardly in a position to advice/warn anybody leave alone India.
Some of us are looking for news that is negative about India no matter how small or where it originates from. A country which has never denied entry and protection to single alleged scoundrel from any part of the world is the leading light for some, more so when it comments or hints against India.
This lot is worried about how the Princess Haya’s kids were treated but never thought of writing about the Finger nail Factories run by her father in Amman. They will not mention that not even a single Muslim country in the world has democracy that respect the minority rights.
We are far from perfect, but a small acknowledgement of an effort to provide a toilet, a gas connection, a house with electricity and running water and above all PREVENTING BIG TIME THEFT OF THE PUBLIC MONEY GOING INTO THE POCKETS OF RULERS in stead of running the country down just because of a dislike for MODI will help the country more.
so India should have allowed Princess latifa to live in India and sacrifice Indias’ strategic interest as well as crores of Indians working in gulf countries to jeopardy.The prints’ hatred of Mr Modi and India surprises me.
UAE would have been insane to simply deport Indians working there.
UAE’s offices would not run if they got rid of white and blue collar Indians.
They would never be able to do it.
I dont think they would have deported Indians working there. Infact they would have gone the other way round.. make sure there is no easy exit for Indians .. and then show them hell on earth !! These mindless journalists bring up Human rights thing when its convenient for them. This same journalist criticized Modi govt for siding Afghan democratically elected govt and thus loosing the strategic interests in Afghanistan now that Taliban is being backed by US. As you can see , the same journalist criticized Modi for siding with a Govt which wants to respect democracy and women rights and not siding with Taliban. In that case, She wants Modi to put India’s strategic interests ahead of Afghan people basic fundamental rights( you can check out her previous articles about it.) The hypocrisy of ThePrint journalists is beyond anyone’s comprehension
@Raghu: You mean a country which has twice democratically elected a mass murderer of 50,000 Muslim minority in Gujarat in 2002, and who has locked up millions of Kashmiri Muslims since August 5, 2019, and who recently allowed burning of Muslims in capital Delhi while celebrating with Donald Trump, and who has introduced anti-Muslim is a fond of democracy, women’s rights (who has himself kicked out his wife and whose supporters, voters, followers everyday abuse women with rape-threats)?
India and Modi have no legitimate interest in a Muslim-majority Afghanistan, except to use its soil for sponsoring terror to Pakistan and destabilising Afghanistan for own interests to be there.
@Fam UAE has majority of the Filipinos, Bangladeshis, Indonesians working there. Hindus are only suppliers of women to Arab Muslims there.
Pakistan’s HIV rate is the highest in South Asia; that fact alone is shocking. The time to judge and pretend that ‘these things’ don’t happen in ‘our society’ is long, long passed. Everything happens in ‘our society’, as it does everywhere else in the world. The only difference is that our pretence and denial puts us all in danger, be it drug use, unsafe sex and all the other ‘things’ we stubbornly deny. NATION 12/5/19
@Gopi: India’s commercial and entertainment capital Mumbai has 60% of its population living in Asia’s largest slum called ‘Dharavi’ (without facilities like clean-water, sanitation and toilets). According to the reports, there are about 600 million Indians who live in thousands of slums (total 1,00,000) all over India. World Bank reported in the year 2010 that India’s poverty is higher than all the poor African countries combined together. In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, there are 3 million Indian children suffering from malnutrition – thousands of them die every year. India’s leading newspaper ‘The Hindu’ reported in the year 2014-2015 that India’s 800 million population lacks ‘toilet’ facilities at home; hence they go to the bushes, or beach areas to defecate.
Interestingly, no other Muslim country has taken a similar measure, indicating that Pakistanis are more easily upset by any hint of blasphemy than our brethren elsewhere. And yet, according to Google, the popular search engine, the word ‘sex’ is typed in more often by Pakistanis than by Internet users in any other country. Clearly, we are not entirely consistent in our attachment to religious dictats. DAWN
Since when did Hindus start believing in Pakistani Jihadi newspaper on bankroll of ISI, as per Hindus?
Hindus who lynch non Hindu humans for cows are discussing blasphemy. Imao. It was a fake report which Google has never released. But even if it is true, it is at least they are searching those terms, unlike Naked Sadhus who show their tools to sanskari Hindu women in the street, or those Swamis, Gurus and Yogis who rape Hindu women in temples and ashram in the name of getting them rid of black magic. India is declared world’s most dangerous country for women where a woman is raped every 20 mint. 2012 Nirbhaya case is example.
Devdasi means servant of god, Devdasi should dance in temple and she is also forced into prost*tution and saxually abused by the Brahmins. Although Devdasi is banned by government but Temple prost*tution or sacred prost*tution is still prevalent in many parts of India,
According to a report by one-man commission headed by Justice Raghunath Rao in 2015, there are 80,000 Devdasi in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states.
(timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Devadasi-system-still-exists-in-Telangana-AP-says-report/articleshow/46337859.cms)
As per theguardian’s 2011 report “The National Commission for Women estimate that there are 48,358 Devadasis currently in India.”
(theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/21/devadasi-india-sex-work-religion)
I can see the milk of human kindness that Muslims in the subcontinent are famous for.
You are alive is the example of their milk and kidness.
That is why are you alive today after 1000 years of human kindness shown by Muslim rulers.
You Hindus who have recently burned 50 Muslims in capital Delhi, have shameless face to come up with such lines. Imao
Wrong article yet to know facts
India’s national interests must be the first priority for our pm, not only for our pm but for everybody.
however i do feel bad for her. but try to understand what if modi didn’t return her daughter to uae, the repercussions maybe bad. many indians live in dubai, we cannot risk their lives. hence to be very honest we can’t do anything.
Yes, India’s strategic interests are obviously greater. Human Right of one person if pays off for entire nations is a good tradeoff. Also not our citizen, his daughter, his affairs. We are benefitting hugely and happy at that.
@Chilman K Saafi, I apologise to you for the riots and burning alive of the Muslims.
She is a princess so care for her rights but never seen any article on thousands of poor girls those are trafficked every poor. #Hypocrisy!
All this sounds like fiction to defame bilateral relationship of great civilizations. Unless evident with some international law
forcibly taken off a boat off the coast of Goa ? Kidnapped by marine commandos? The princess was trying to enter without any visa etc. What do you expect the commandos to do..roll out a red carpet?
Who pays you for writing this stuff? That would be an interesting read?
She was seeking an asylum. For a person seeking an asylum because their life is in immediate danger, a VISA is not required.
Narendra Modi is really a manipulative person. My heart goes out to both the princess and I hope they get their freedom soon.
It is not a hidden fact that the situation of women in gulf countries is not really good and they are very much oppressed, while young generations are getting radicalized very quickly.
India is not party to the UNHCR 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol and does not have a national refugee protection framework. So even if it would have been a morally correct decision to offer asylum to the princess, India is not obligated to do so. And seeing how this decision, as distasteful as it may seem, would have ended up improving the relationship between the two countries and considering the consequences of the alternative, it was the correct decision taken by the Indian government.
Also, I don’t really understand how Narendra Modi is being manipulative, he is just acting in the best interest of the country.
Completely agree, PM Modi was acting in the best interests of this Country…
MODI was Paid,to send the MARCOS, he used a LIE FAKE “INTERPOL RED NOTICE”, to get the Indian Coast Guard Captains to go along with it. It was a 100% governement op, Murder the Captain and Crew, recover Latifa and Sink the boat. MODI was PAID,and paid HUGE,for ordering the job done,after a fast meeting with the BJP head of Inteligence. For National Interest…For India. Against a USA FLAGGED VESSEL in International Waters. They broke over 400 LAWS, 20 big ones, and 100s of small ones, doing what they did how they did it. Its no DEFENDING INDIA from the Princess,trying to sneak in. They GPS’d the boat, using her friends PHONE, they knew where they where since the 29th of Feb. MODI is EXTREME BJP,and a RACIST against Muslims.
People who are blatantly saying that India’s interests are more important that a women’s life are clearly lacking in any sort of moral compass and have no understanding or appreciation for the values that modern India was built on by our forefathers.
What happened to the Princess is unconstitutional as per the Indian law and ethos? We have not heard from her and do not know whether she is alright.
What happened to her is nothing short of how honor killing works in our country. If this is the new India and this is the mindset of Indians now, I am seriously worried about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and our other forefathers who laid their lives to make a just country for us
People who are blatantly saying that India’s interests are more important that a women’s life are clearly lacking in any sort of moral compass and have no understanding or appreciation for the values that modern India was built on by our forefathers.
What happened to the Princess is unconstitutional as per the Indian law and ethos? We have not heard from her and do not know whether she is alright.
What happened to her is nothing short of how honor killing works in our country. If this is the new India and this is the mindset of Indians now, I am seriously worried about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and our other forefathers who laid their lives to make a just country for us.
For preservation of family values as tradition of joint families in India, Modi did rightly to hand over Princess back to her father. The adults rights are important within the family rights, this modern so called adult rights concept had ruined the joint family pleasures.
Criticism for the sake of criticism
Strategic Interest of our ountry is of paramount important than the so called individuals right of a Princess who anyway has not run away because she is being put to sword
To all those people who write here to criticise The Print or the author have to remember that this is what democracy is and The Print chooses democracy. If your leader has his way that democracy will shatter. And it already has in UP and the hini heartland.
This so-called “journalist” needs to be arrested for sedition…. Gossipmongerers
You should READ a BOOK and get an EDUCATION…
”Modi had not only undermined the political clout of the Muslim community; he had added to the insult by enacting three laws that many Muslims felt were inimical to their community interests. The first was the triple talaq legislation, the first time Muslim personal laws were altered since 1940. The second was the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, a long-standing BJP election commitment that the pundits felt could never be implemented. Thirdly, there was the CAA which clearly distinguished between Hindu refugees and Muslim infiltrators. ” PIONEER
Jyoti Malhotra believes that (as proclaimed by herself) Kashmiri Pandits “left” the Valley on their own will. She (and her ilk) are not even willing to acknowledge the brutality and the threat that the Pandits have been subjected to. Ms. Malhotra’s mind is so perverted by the leftist anti-national ideology that her opinion on any matter is not worth even the paper on which it is written.
It is Kashmiri Muslims who are suffering rogue military’s violence and terror and Hindu-extremists’ bias. What was your 900,000 Hindu Army doing if they suffered brutality? What has Modi done to relocate them in six years? These Hindus have no need to go there where rogue Hindu Army frequently imposes curfew and denies them access to media, and so on.
There is an extra zero, there… India’s army is NOT that large.
You are a nationalist and yet you do not know the number of your military.
New name of Pakistan’s ISPR. How’s retired life and scotch? What terrorists doing in kufar land Mr. forced converted animals?
Read correct history of Kashmir and India and then write your views…It seems you don’t know anything and depends on fake news published in the name of Kashmir.
It looks writer is just feeling the space without realising comparison of various incidences. She must read history before referring any action done by BJP. This is example if one sided journalism.
Jyoti would never write on ”Minority rights in Islamic countries”. That would annoy her sponsor.
Jyoti should write imaginary stories on minority rights in Islamic countries by ignoring Hindu-extremists like you who are burning in hatred for Islamic countries, but not any non-Islamic countries.
Muslims increase in every non-Muslim countries by higher birth rate and immigration. And in every Muslim countries, non-Muslims decrease every year. Muslims are very tolerant people indeed.
You KaaIoo have audactiy to say this after burning alive 50 Muslims in capital Delhi under a radical Hindu ruled party, in world’s biggest third-class democracy.
You are all saints, followers of peaceful religion, and proclaiming peace all over the world.
First I guess you must note that Hindus living in Gulf are biggest hypocrites they enjoy everything there including Abu Dhabi, Dubai desert safari earn riyals and dirhams and come back here talking rubbish about these countries. Now mr could you please tell me where are Hindus persecuted in the Gulf?!
Read the article. Understand it. Then comment. If anyone was commenting on the gulf, it was the author.
”are India’s strategic national interests more important than the adult woman’s human rights?” Yes, they are.
What is the purpose of this post? Ans: Find fault with Modi. When Modi haters (include this author) have declared him as fascist and Hitler, what else they want to prove. Can there be anything worst than being called fascist and labelled as Hitler? The pain that Modi haters are feeling is so intense that they continuously want demeaning Modi and now India itself. They have put so mud on themselves that it’s difficult to recognise them as human. They look like wild animals.
he is a DICTATOR, ever heard of FREE PRESS?
Well your India no longer has FREE PRESS.
Guess what else,
Any Indians that left DUBAI with a debt,can and are being Arrested in India and sent back to dubai to PRISON,
back to forced labor camps, soon as the flu bug is under better control.
Thank modi for Signing a Reciprocity Agreement,for DEBTERS from INDIA, that left dubai,with a debt.
your a SHEEPER.
Learn to read a book, get an education
”UK judge Sir Andrew McFarlane’s verdict certainly casts a sharp light on how the rich and powerful not only manipulate the law” This does not happen only in India or third world countries, it also happens in UK itself. How else would you explain that in 2014 alone. Indians bought properties worth more than one billion pounds in central London.
Of course with HSBC help. No one actually investigated when HSBC openly launched ‘progrom’ to further corrupt the corrupt Indians by moving their black money to safe heavens without any questions asked
UK hypocrisy has no limits. On one hand, it forces its own people, poor and middle class to disclose all bank transactions for last six months when buying any property. it looks the other way when millions changes hands in London property market. Nigerians, Arabs, chines, Russians and Indians, all buy property in millions without being asked any questions about their sources of income. India should not pay much attention what the judges say in the above case. India must do what is good for its own interests.
India must extend all help to MBS of Saudi Arabia to help him stay in power. the alternatives are disastrous for India. Idealism ha sits own place but this is hard politics.
Wonderful.
Indian Hindutva and Saudi Wahhabi Islamist forces joining hands.
Nothing illustrates right wing fascism, trickery and cunning better. You support people who murder and cut a journalist into pieces. You really are something.
And UK supports Pakistan that is running a factory of murderers from Pirates in Sea to bombers on London streets
@Vomit: Pakistan-paranoid Biackie Hindu. Pakistan helps fight pirates in the bay by frequently holding joint naval drills with US, Russia, China, France, the UK, Japan, South Korea. You slumdogs who audacity to bring your ugIy face and talk about murderers after burning alive 50 Muslim minority in capital Delhi of world’s biggest democracy.
Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford. The towns change, but the pattern is always the same. Gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani Muslim heritage, lure white girls as young as 10 with gifts and displays of affection. Next, the girl is raped as a way of “breaking her in”. Once the child’s spirit is subdued, and her mind fogged with drugs, she is sold for sex to multiple men at £200 a time. If the girl tries to break away, a gang member might threaten to behead her or firebomb her home.
@Gopi M. Salman is fond of eating cow beef foods. A Slumdog dreaming BIackie Hindu from sheethoIe. India is supplier of upper-caste Hindu women to M. B. Salman.
In fact, you have immunity if you kill in the name of Islam. Just look at the 50,000-plus Pakistanis who have fallen to jihadi terror. Few have been arrested, leave alone tried and convicted for this slaughter of the innocent.
Muslims everywhere become enraged if a mosque is deliberately damaged. But it’s OK for Jihadis to blow them up, preferably with hundreds of believers praying inside. And it’s fine to desecrate Hindu temples, Sikh gurdwaras and Christian churches.
Irfan Hussain in DAWN
@Gopi;; No Sikh Gurdwara or Hindu temple has been desecrate. You Hindu terrorists have audacity to post myths even after burning mosques and Muslims alive in world’s biggest Hindu chacIa that calls itself a democracy. Your Hindu Army destroyed Golden Temple in 1984, and killed 30,000 Sikhs. You Hindus have audacity to post it here.
Pakistanis would be eating grass had it not been for the saudi largese.
How did this comment get nod from moderation? Useless “ThePrint”
Look at you.. pakistan still can’t get over slave mentality..forgot the pakistan sending girls to China… Our slumdongs shall become millionaire but yours shall breed in filth and die there and so shall their kids..have some shame and stop begging for money and attention
You Hindus have lived under Muslim slavery and British slavery. Supplying HinduPhuddie is work of Hindus all over the world, and to the Arab Muslims in Dubai for your IPhone.
Mulla ka lulla jala
Did any one notice how the author use the sentence “It’s been two years since Princess Latifa was kidnapped by Indian marine commandos and sent back to her father.” Kidnapped, seriously?
No she willingly went to vegetarian Commandos.
So first daughter was Kidnapped from UK itself. It was easier than kidnapping someone from Wassipur. No one in UK government got bribed or got jailed. …wow that would have been some operation even Mossad would not have done that..In this lies duplicity of Brits.
Ironic how Print is worried about Human rights for women while it has yet to voice out against Triple talaq or nikah halala
Why are you not worried about Modi’s wife who he kicked out? These issues seems to have affected Hindus a lot whose women want to do Love-Jihad, as Hindus burn them for dowry, kick them out after they become widow.
But as our negotiating team has discovered, the rest of the world is neither blind nor stupid. In fact, Pakistan has been given a lot of time on the grey list to block channels of terrorist financing. Now, the vice is tightening, and if our tottering economy is to avoid a mortal blow, the authorities had better deliver on their promises. Irfan Hussain in DAWN 16/3/19
Irfan Hussain sounds like a Hindu convert
UK shelters the largest no of INDIAN ECONOMIC OFFENDERS and refuses to extradite them and Jyoti is so concerned what UK COURTS who are complicit in protecting INDIAN ECONOMIC OFFENDERS say. Really!!!
Print’s hatred for Mr modi shows. A strategic win should be celebrated, as we all know that Congress could not have pulled it off. But you want to set narrative of hatred. Sadly now indian citizens know this game and hence yu are irrelevant. I only watched this news for strategic win details. Rest fake tears now dont matter. ..
Strategic win..?? What a great way to explain our impotence..
Question is, are India’s strategic national interests more important than the adult woman’s human rights?
Answer : Definitely and they should always remain so and any responsible Govt must put the interests of India ahead of foreigners and their tantrums.
UAE has used rogue Indian force for their rogue objective.
Yes.
UK courts are unnecessary butting into the personal affairs of a UAE Sheikh. They should concentrate on British Royal family and murder of Princess Dianna and now walking away from Royal Purse of the Prince. Write as much as you wish about the British Royal family and leave others alone.
India managed the kidnapping of a foreign woman in international waters. Only a fascist could not be ashamed at this.
Hindu Rashtra has its own standards.
Yes its called “India First”…
Shame it took 70 years for Indians to get a Govt that realized this simple logic.
By begging oil and weapons and depend on moving to Christian and Muslim countries.
We have created a reality of our own. Oblivious of our iron begging bowl, oblivious of the fact that, but for the largesse of, if not infidels at least of non-Muslims, we would be a broke nation, we really subscribe to the fiction that we are a fortress of Islam. Ayaz Amir in The News
Quote Arundhati Roy who says while Hindus are sleeping on footpaths, pop lives on less than 50 cents, India’s Hindus consider itself as a Superpower.
Gotta to say something complimentary DAILY WITH PHOTO.Oh, indeed a hard profession. Just hold your nose and do it. Remember in the front page!!
Since when do niceties such as human rights or freedom of choice matter to this government?
When did the niceties or freedom of choice matter to previous govts made up of your ilk matter ?? Did Indira ask if India wanted emergency? Did Nehru ask Hindus if he could take over their temples and holy sites? Did Rajiv Gandhi ask us before he went into sri lanka with the IPKF??
Being blissfully ignorant of your dubious and disgraceful history to justify your prejudice against Modi and the BJP is worse than what happened to Latifa – it is like a murderer sitting in the jury of a trial convicting his victims pretending amnesia!
Each wrong is right to some one. Right and wrong are not universal as one’s terrorist is freedom fighter of other. So come out from the stupidity of right and wrong. You say “Two wrongs don’t make a right”. I say “Each wrong make a right also.”
Hehehe…looks like someone got u r liberal goat…anyway we support modi and his policies of keeping India ahead of individuals…have the TOLERANCE to accept other views…like I m ok with you feeling what you do about a princess and her rights…but guess what…I don’t give a fig…to her rights…India first..always and everytime
While I am an ardent defender of human rights, dignity, freedom and equality; the question asked here is convenient. While what-aboutry shows childish and immature thinking and must be denounced every step of the way, same treatment must be afforded to the partisan and unfair western world view.
The CIA, MI and their devil masters in power chairs, from the hideous Churchill to worse-than-Hitler, mass civilian murderer Roosevelt have done and continue to do, justify and even glorify their subhuman and inhuman acts against freedom, equality and humanity with impunity.
Our is the greatest interest of humanity to deface these murderers and the lying machinery of the west than to raise these questions concerning a single individual.
Ask what happened to Mujibur Rehman and what was the cost his nation paid, ask ergo murdered Saddam and what cost his nation paid, what history did humanity lose, ask who divided India and what cost have the two nations have paid, ask who denied a nation to Kurds and what have the Kurds paid…
ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS KEEPING THEIR IMPACT IN MIND.
We can question Britain and also India at the same time.
Certainly the UK courts are hypocrites. I think Indians should denounce the kidnapping of Princess Latifa while also bringing up the murders of people like David Kelly by the British government itself.
@ What about denial of nation to Kashmiris, Khalistanis, Nagas. Democratically electing a mass murderer Hindu-extremist as PM, and a terrorist nun Pragya Thakur who adores the killer of founder of independent India, no word on recent burning alive of Muslims by Hindus in Delhi, lock up of millions of non Hindus in Kashmir. But let’s talk about Kurd, Mujib, Saddam. Hypocrite BIackies.
Human rights are not on top of the agenda in India at the moment. 2. With the collapse in oil prices – one wonders what this will do to Aramco’s valuations – unlikely that the deal with Reliance will go through. Nor is it likely a huge refinery complex will come up on the Konkan coast. Sovereign wealth funds from the region have not in fact invested anything worthwhile in India. 3. A recent Print column explained that while autocratic rulers can hold off on issues like Kashmir and CAA, where the governments are broadly democratic, popular emotion bursts forth on the streets. What the good people of Bangladesh make of being constantly referred to as termites, fit to be cast into the Bay of Bengal, was on full display in Dacca recently. We should thank Covid 19 for the birth centenary function of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman being deferred. Also take seriously the Supreme Leader of Iran when he says India will be isolated from the Islamic world.
Iran is best advised to save it’s own citizens from the scourge of Coronavirus. Right now it has the highest mortality after China. A government which is itself an international pariah and on the FATF black list and killed more Iranians with a missile attack on a passenger plane, than those killed in Delhi’s riots is hardly in a position to advice/warn anybody leave alone India.
Some of us are looking for news that is negative about India no matter how small or where it originates from. A country which has never denied entry and protection to single alleged scoundrel from any part of the world is the leading light for some, more so when it comments or hints against India.
This lot is worried about how the Princess Haya’s kids were treated but never thought of writing about the Finger nail Factories run by her father in Amman. They will not mention that not even a single Muslim country in the world has democracy that respect the minority rights.
We are far from perfect, but a small acknowledgement of an effort to provide a toilet, a gas connection, a house with electricity and running water and above all PREVENTING BIG TIME THEFT OF THE PUBLIC MONEY GOING INTO THE POCKETS OF RULERS in stead of running the country down just because of a dislike for MODI will help the country more.
This is realpolitik or let us say Modi politics where individuals are mere mortals in front of the state.
Jyotiji, bas hogaya????
so India should have allowed Princess latifa to live in India and sacrifice Indias’ strategic interest as well as crores of Indians working in gulf countries to jeopardy.The prints’ hatred of Mr Modi and India surprises me.
UAE would have been insane to simply deport Indians working there.
UAE’s offices would not run if they got rid of white and blue collar Indians.
They would never be able to do it.
I dont think they would have deported Indians working there. Infact they would have gone the other way round.. make sure there is no easy exit for Indians .. and then show them hell on earth !! These mindless journalists bring up Human rights thing when its convenient for them. This same journalist criticized Modi govt for siding Afghan democratically elected govt and thus loosing the strategic interests in Afghanistan now that Taliban is being backed by US. As you can see , the same journalist criticized Modi for siding with a Govt which wants to respect democracy and women rights and not siding with Taliban. In that case, She wants Modi to put India’s strategic interests ahead of Afghan people basic fundamental rights( you can check out her previous articles about it.) The hypocrisy of ThePrint journalists is beyond anyone’s comprehension
@Raghu: You mean a country which has twice democratically elected a mass murderer of 50,000 Muslim minority in Gujarat in 2002, and who has locked up millions of Kashmiri Muslims since August 5, 2019, and who recently allowed burning of Muslims in capital Delhi while celebrating with Donald Trump, and who has introduced anti-Muslim is a fond of democracy, women’s rights (who has himself kicked out his wife and whose supporters, voters, followers everyday abuse women with rape-threats)?
India and Modi have no legitimate interest in a Muslim-majority Afghanistan, except to use its soil for sponsoring terror to Pakistan and destabilising Afghanistan for own interests to be there.
@Fam UAE has majority of the Filipinos, Bangladeshis, Indonesians working there. Hindus are only suppliers of women to Arab Muslims there.
Pakistan’s HIV rate is the highest in South Asia; that fact alone is shocking. The time to judge and pretend that ‘these things’ don’t happen in ‘our society’ is long, long passed. Everything happens in ‘our society’, as it does everywhere else in the world. The only difference is that our pretence and denial puts us all in danger, be it drug use, unsafe sex and all the other ‘things’ we stubbornly deny. NATION 12/5/19
@Gopi: India’s commercial and entertainment capital Mumbai has 60% of its population living in Asia’s largest slum called ‘Dharavi’ (without facilities like clean-water, sanitation and toilets). According to the reports, there are about 600 million Indians who live in thousands of slums (total 1,00,000) all over India. World Bank reported in the year 2010 that India’s poverty is higher than all the poor African countries combined together. In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, there are 3 million Indian children suffering from malnutrition – thousands of them die every year. India’s leading newspaper ‘The Hindu’ reported in the year 2014-2015 that India’s 800 million population lacks ‘toilet’ facilities at home; hence they go to the bushes, or beach areas to defecate.
Interestingly, no other Muslim country has taken a similar measure, indicating that Pakistanis are more easily upset by any hint of blasphemy than our brethren elsewhere. And yet, according to Google, the popular search engine, the word ‘sex’ is typed in more often by Pakistanis than by Internet users in any other country. Clearly, we are not entirely consistent in our attachment to religious dictats. DAWN
Since when did Hindus start believing in Pakistani Jihadi newspaper on bankroll of ISI, as per Hindus?
Hindus who lynch non Hindu humans for cows are discussing blasphemy. Imao. It was a fake report which Google has never released. But even if it is true, it is at least they are searching those terms, unlike Naked Sadhus who show their tools to sanskari Hindu women in the street, or those Swamis, Gurus and Yogis who rape Hindu women in temples and ashram in the name of getting them rid of black magic. India is declared world’s most dangerous country for women where a woman is raped every 20 mint. 2012 Nirbhaya case is example.
Devdasi means servant of god, Devdasi should dance in temple and she is also forced into prost*tution and saxually abused by the Brahmins. Although Devdasi is banned by government but Temple prost*tution or sacred prost*tution is still prevalent in many parts of India,
According to a report by one-man commission headed by Justice Raghunath Rao in 2015, there are 80,000 Devdasi in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states.
(timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Devadasi-system-still-exists-in-Telangana-AP-says-report/articleshow/46337859.cms)
As per theguardian’s 2011 report “The National Commission for Women estimate that there are 48,358 Devadasis currently in India.”
(theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/21/devadasi-india-sex-work-religion)
I can see the milk of human kindness that Muslims in the subcontinent are famous for.
You are alive is the example of their milk and kidness.
That is why are you alive today after 1000 years of human kindness shown by Muslim rulers.
You Hindus who have recently burned 50 Muslims in capital Delhi, have shameless face to come up with such lines. Imao