Nationality ...

Through Santosh's buzz I came across following post about one Zainab,a past Indian national, who was denied Indian citizenship when she wanted to return to India after her parting ways with her Pakistani husband.
http://indiansinpakistan.blogspot.com/2010/04/ill-call-you-when-i-get-lonely.html

I started thinking ...

Accepting X nationality means believing in X country's values and the nation. Having high respect + patriotism towards the country.
Personal circumstances may force someone to live in some other country for some finite period of time as a foreign national but when there is question of accepting host country's nationality factors which play important roles are more or less same as mentioned in first sentences.
As that is what it takes to be true citizen of a country than just to be someones spouse. (Generally it's believed that on family level view and values towards country are more or less the same and that might be the reason that you can get X country's citizenship if you marry national of the country and is resident in the country for some period)

Though giving up A country's nationality and becoming B country national does not necessarily mean person in question hate country A; BUT if A and B countries have radically different ideologies and are in conflict with each other then questions can certainly be raised.

If a foriegn national wants to be a Indian citizen, the person somehow should be able to prove fist point and should be resident in India for N years at least and complete other necessary requirements.
Again how easy should it be to change citizenship based on personal circumstances, is a question to ponder over.

I have full sympathy toward Zainab (lady in question), but above things just popped in my head while reading comments to the post.
I do think that Indian government could have considered her as political refugee and granted her stay; I would never support insensitivity and harassment.
But granting citizenship just based on emotional factors won't work, I guess even Indian government agrees with me. (http://www.mha.nic.in/citizenship/acquisition.htm)

-Nile