75 Years of Secularism: How India’s Generosity Became Pakistan’s Playground

By Harshita Rai

India, the world’s largest democracy and arguably the most patient neighbour to Pakistan, has long prided itself on its secular fabric — a concept noble in intent but deeply compromised in practice. Over the past 75 years, this unchecked idealism has not only blurred the lines of national identity but has turned India into a soft haven for Pakistani infiltrators — not with guns but with ration cards, SIM cards, and even voter IDs.

Take a moment to absorb what secularism has delivered: Pakistani nationals — overstaying, intermarrying, acquiring property, voting, and even receiving government jobs — all under the benevolent watch of successive governments, especially those bound by vote-bank compulsions.

We now have Pakistani women marrying CRPF jawans, Pakistani men raising families on Indian soil with benefits funded by Indian taxpayers, and even participating in our elections — legally or otherwise. Entire ghettos have been established on city outskirts, often built on waqf lands or acquired through dubious means by foreign-linked entities.

India’s hospitals, once symbols of our welfare model, are crowded with foreign nationals receiving “priority” care. Donation centres are flooded with cross-border cases fast-tracked under the guise of humanitarianism, while Indian citizens wait their turn.

Disturbingly, these individuals often serve as cover agents for Pakistan’s ISI reconnaissance missions, using family visits as excuses to scope out sensitive zones. Some are even embedded in media houses and film industries, subtly poisoning public sentiment against India’s military and state institutions — all in the name of art or press freedom.

Most alarming, however, is the demographic distortion in border districts. The unchecked influx and silent settlement of Pakistani-origin populations now threaten not just law and order but national sovereignty itself. The worry is no longer if this will lead to internal unrest — it is how soon.

So how did we get here?

Because for decades, the Congress and its INDI alliance partners — SP, TMC, NCP, DMK, TRS, RJD, PDP, NC — fed the public distractions. While we were arguing over petrol prices, caste quotas, and tomato inflation, the ground reality was being redrawn — not by war but by willful ignorance.

In their pursuit of secular optics and political mileage, these parties opened the gates — not just to diversity, but to demographic dilution. What began as tolerance has now become complicity.

It’s time India wakes up to the cost of weaponised secularism — where appeasement replaces accountability, and national interest is bartered for votes.

Because demography isn’t just destiny anymore — it’s national security.