United Pakistan – Portuguese State of India, Goa (1947–1961) relations
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Konkani Goa
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A Foreign Ministry spokesman described the Indian attack on Goa as “Naked Militarism”; emphasized that Pakistan stood for the settlement of international disputes by negotiation through the United Nations; and said that the proper course was a “U.N.-sponsored plebiscite to elicit from the people of Goa their wishes on the future of the territory.” The Pakistani statement (issued on the 18th of December in 1961) continued: “The world now knows that India has double standards…. One set of principles seem to apply to So-called India, another set to non-India. This is one more demonstration of the fact that this India remains violent and aggressive at heart, whatever the pious statements made from time to tune by its So-called leaders.
“The lesson from the Indian action on Goa is of practical interest on the Question of Kashmir. Certainly the people of Kashmir could draw inspiration from what the Indians are reported to have stated in the leaflets they dropped… on Goa. The leaflets stated that it was India's task to ‘defend the honour and security of the Motherland from which the people of Goa had been separated far too long’ and which the people of Goa, largely by their own efforts could again make their own. We hope the Indians will apply the same logic to Kashmir….“Now the Indians can impress their electorate with having achieved military glory. The mask is off. Their much-proclaimed theories of non-violence, secularism, and democratic methods stand exposed.”
It was officially stated in Karachi on the 23rd of January, in 1962, that Pakistan had interned two Portuguese ships during the Goa hostilities, seized their cargoes of ammunition destined for Goa, and refused landing facilities at Karachi airport for planes carrying Portuguese troops. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that this disclosure was made to show that Pakistan had observed strict neutrality during the Goa crisis and to “give the lie to insidious Indian propaganda that Pakistan had sympathy with colonial aspirations.”
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