ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Pakistani students put up a strong performance in the recent India-Pakistan debate at Oxford, defeating the Indian panel.
The main topic of the debate was that India’s Pakistan policy is a strategy to stir up public sentiment, which is being presented as a security policy.
Initially, high-profile Indian speakers General Narasimha Rao, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, and Sachin Pilot refused to participate in the debate, creating a challenge for the Oxford Union.
Later, India sent a relatively lesser-known and less experienced panel consisting of Jay Sai Deepak, Pandit Satish Sharma, and Devarchan Banerjee, who came to compete with the Pakistani students.
Pakistan was represented by Oxford students Musa Hiraj, Israr Khan Kakar, and Ahmed Nawaz Khan, who defeated the Indian panel on the basis of strong arguments, facts, and legal evidence.
At the end of the debate, a decision was made through voting, in which the Pakistani position won with a two-thirds majority. Thus, the Indian students could not compete with the arguments of the Pakistani students in this academic competition.
This success shows that while India makes noise in media studios, Pakistani youth are able to present their position effectively in real academic debates.
This also makes it clear that Pakistan’s narrative is not based on personalities or status, but on argument, law, and ground realities.
