Adnan Harris

Associate Editor and researcher at the Portmir Foundation. Born and raised in England. Parents from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir from Mirpur Division which is not part of Kashmir Province or the Valley but Jammu Province - these are themselves separate places that are part of the same State. Love literature, poetry, film, art, music, sufism, Islam, travel, free thought, liberalism, and lots of other things. Have a particularly strong desire to learn about Indian Civilisation, the place my forbears are from. I have no qualms identifying with India and Kashmir State but not Pakistan. Partition made us Pakistanis - not necessarily those of us from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, an Occupied and Stateless People. I think partition was a bad idea. I'm not averse to the real Pakistan of the ordinary man, woman and child. I feel sorry for Pakistanis, good people lumbered with a Military dominated State created to rip them off. Either all parts of Kashmir become an Independent State or Pakistan Occupied Kashmir joins a secular and democratic India; remaining with Pakistan is more exploitation and corruption. If ethno-nationalist Pakistanis have a problem with Kashmiris exercising their right to self-determination then they shouldn't be living in Britain or outside Pakistan, given their rejection of co-existence for the Two Nation Theory. Okay, the official bit... My opinions are not necessarily those of the Portmir Foundation; the Foundation does not do censorship and neither does it endorse my opinions; if you disagree with any of us, and you're from our background, write your own opinion piece and we'll publish it.