On Sunday, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur lashed out at BBC’s coverage of Article 370’s abrogation and wondered why the Beeb didn’t call Northern Ireland ‘British Occupied Ireland’.

On Sunday, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur lashed out at BBC’s coverage of Article 370’s abrogation and wondered why the Beeb didn’t call Northern Ireland ‘British Occupied Ireland’.

He wrote on Twitter: “Hey @BBCWorld .. each time you call #kashmir ‘Indian Occupied Kashmir’ I keep wondering why you refuse to call Northern Ireland ‘British Occupied Ireland’ ?”

Hey @BBCWorld .. each time you call #kashmir ‘Indian Occupied Kashmir’ I keep wondering why you refuse to call Northern Ireland ‘British Occupied Ireland’ ? — Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) August 11, 2019

BBC statement on #Kashmir coverage pic.twitter.com/XJfLOrh9nQ — BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) August 11, 2019

Many Indian commentators have accused several foreign publications including BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and even NYT of biased coverage over the Kashmir unrest.

England has a bloody history with Ireland. The British Crown continued to violently put down any call for home rule from the people and the potato famine of the 1840s saw around 2 million Irishmen killed, a move we'd see again the Bengal famine a century later courtesy Winston Churchill.

Meanwhile, best-selling author Frederick Forsyth has also BBC of bias in the past, particularly when he was working there as a correspondent during the Biafra War in Nigeria. He even claimed a BBC spy broke into his flat.