Credit: My telegraph by Wasim Saroya.

Much is being written about right wing politics these days in the British media.  This morning someone told me about an article in The Independent . I read the piece and very casually went on to say to the person that I was a million miles away from the world of the National Front in the 70s. I was in glorious Lahore, I chirped back. What the person said in response was not a ground-breaking fact, yet in the context that it was said, it left me reeling. The person in question is a brilliant young Ahmadi of about the age of my sons. He was raised here in the UK, received fine education and then most selflessly went to live in the country of his forefathers, Pakistan, to make a difference. As he pointed out the re-emergence of British extreme right wing politics to me, I responded from the safety of my secure home in the UK referring to the past glory of Lahore. With hindsight, how frivolous was my response. The young man replied to me that the Lahore of today was not a million miles away from the threat of extreme politics either; he said most Pakistani politicians were a million times worse than anything the National Front could put forward. The force of this remark made me stop in my tracks.

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