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Power and majesty of the Sikh prayer ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ is visible every where since Kosovo declared it’s independence
PM Manmohan Singh’s recent letter to SGPC indicates Indian rulers planning some covert anti-Sikh action in Indian occupied Punjab
Is the Supreme Court /Haryana conspiracy over Punjab’s river water coming to surface soon?
Washington D.C. - ‘It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable’ is an old truism. The powerful appeal in our column on KOSOVO, last month, urging the world’s 26 million muscular Sikhs to unite a la Kosovo, in an effort to give meaning to the Sikh prayer of ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’, (which every Sikh repeats in every Gurdwara every day) by creating matching ‘facts on the ground’, in the Indian-occupied Sikh Homeland of Punjab, has flooded the internet with commentaries.
The ‘wake-up call’ has obviously shaken up India’s insecure Brahmin/Bania minority ruling elite from the Indian Prime minister downwards. Read Khalistan Calling, dated 20 February, 2008, headlined, “Is it not the turn of Punjab (Khalistan) to unilaterally declare its’ independence next” by clicking at:-
http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/home/khalistancalling/2008/february20.aspx Reports indicate that the insecure Indian rulers are conspiring with the anti-Sikh bigoted Supreme Court to create trouble, in the coming months, over river waters, and other issues, in Indian occupied Sikh Punjab.
One Gopalapuram Parthasarathy, a former Indian diplomat-turned-journalist (and Honorary Visiting Professor in the RAW-financed Think Tank Center For Policy Research, New Delhi), who is widely known as a ‘Hindutva Hawk’ has turned into a ‘Dove’ in his commentary in awe of the Sikh daily prayer ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ mentioned in our column last month. In his syndicated Op-Ed column published in the Hindutva-dominated Chandigarh newspaper TRIBUNE, headlined, ‘Kosovo and after - Challenges from declaration of independence.’ (and his columns in other newspapers like Pioneer, Indian Express et. al.,) he writes that, “The head of the U.S. based ‘Khalistan Affairs Center, Dr Amarjit Singh, welcomes the developments in Kosovo and proclaims that India’s views are colored by the aspirations of a number of ‘nations’ like Kashmir, Assam and Nagalim in general and Khalistan in particular. India is a pluralistic, secular country, which barely a generation ago faced the trauma of partition driven by religion. It has no option but to join Russia and other like-minded countries in denying legitimacy to separatism in Kosovo.” (For Gopalapuram Parthasarathy’s column in the Pioneer newspaper please click at: http://www.dailypioneer.com/ and for his column in Tribune please click at: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080306/edit.htm#4 ) To read dozens of other related commentaries, please go to any internet search engine and enter the words:-‘Kosovo Dr. Amarjit Singh’Parthasarathy goes on to take shelter for Indian policy of inaction on Kosovo, behind so-called ‘secularism’ when he writes that, “PLURALISTIC states, still grappling with problems of strengthening national unity, while recognizing and cherishing religious, ethnic and cultural diversities, are now confronted with the challenge of how to deal with the unilateral declaration of independence by the Muslim majority Kosovo region of Serbia. Kosovo was an integral part of Serbia since the 12th century, with the invading Ottomans defeating the outnumbered Serbs in the epic battle in 1389 before Kosovo was eventually absorbed in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire in 1455. Ottoman rule, which finally ended in 1912, resulted in a steady influx of Albanian Muslims, with the community becoming a majority ultimately in the 19th century. Following the Nazi depredations of World War II, Kosovo became an autonomous region of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. With the collapse and disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s, tensions in the Balkans rose and the Clinton Administration joined the European Union in ‘demonizing’ Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was dubbed as a ‘new Hitler’. What followed was 78 days of relentless bombing of Serbia by the US in 1999, following which Kosovo was placed under a transitional UN Administration, under UN Security Council Resolution 1244. In practical terms, however, Kosovo became a NATO-EU protectorate with the deployment of NATO forces and EU administrators to run the region. Despite its so-called declaration of independence, Kosovo is set to remain a protectorate of the European Union, administered by over 2000 EU officials and its security ensured by a large NATO troop presence.”
Highlighting an interesting point about a proposed oil pipeline and huge American military base in Kosovo, Parthasarathy writes that Kosvo’s ‘supervised independence’ will, “enable the Americans to maintain a strategic military base at ‘Camp Bondsteel’ in the breakaway region of Kosovo — the largest US military base to come up in Europe over the last generation. Moreover, the Americans appear to have plans through ‘AMBO’ — the Albania, Macedonia and the Bulgarian Oil Corporation registered in the US — to build a trans-Balkans oil pipeline. This pipeline, bypassing Russia, will bring oil from the Caspian Sea to terminals in Georgia and then by tanker through the Black Sea to the Bulgarian port of Burgas and then relay it through Macedonia to the Albanian port of Vlora for shipment to refineries in Rotterdam and the US West Coast.”
As if synchronized with Parthasarathy above 6 March column the BBC carried a story, out of the blue, by one Sunil Raman, also on 6 March, 2008, headlined, ‘India PM warns of Sikh militancy,’ in a letter to the SGPC president. Anyone can see that the BBC story has been planted because of Indian (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7281371.stm) nervousness about the effect Kosovo’s independence might have, not only on the 3 million free and prosperous Sikhs of the diaspora but also on the unhappy 23 million Sikhs held captive behind the barbed-wire ‘Berlin Wall’ on the Indo-Pakistan border, since the British Colonials left the subcontinent in 1947. The morally repugnant insecure Brahmin/Bania rulers in Delhi are scared that all 26 million muscular Sikhs - 3 million FREE and 23 million captive in India - might decide to give meaning to the Sikh prayer of ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’, (which every Sikh repeats in every Gurdwara every day) by creating matching ‘facts on the ground’ in the Indian-occupied Sikh Homeland of Punjab, a la Kosovo.
Sunil Raman’s BBC report further states that, “Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in his letter to the SGPC head) says Sikh separatists based outside India are trying to revive militancy in the state of Punjab”. The BBC report quotes the Indian Prime Minister as saying in his letter that, “there is ‘credible information’ to show that the remnants of separatist groups in Canada, the UK, Germany and Pakistan are regrouping with the help of other hostile forces.” The BBC report goes on to say that Mr. Manmohan Singh, a Sikh himself, expressed concern over ‘die-hard separatists’ in the above mentioned letter to the head of Sikh temples, Avtar Singh Makkar. Sunil Raman quotes the Prime minister’s letter as saying that, “The government and our agencies have credible information of efforts being made by extremist groups to revive militancy in Punjab.” Referring to last year’s bomb blasts in two cinema halls in Ludhiana, Punjab, Sunil Raman again quotes Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s letter as saying that, “the two people who planned it were ‘induced’ to carry out the attack on a visit to Pakistan with funding from extremist elements in the US”. Some credible information!
A Sikh prime minister, who wears a turban and claims that he is a Sikh, should be ashamed for demonizing his Sikh brothers based on information manufactured by some dim-witted Intelligence Hawaldar in Delhi. Looking at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and his demeanor, one is reminded of a line from that great English satirist, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), author of Gullivers Travels, who all his life asserted the integrity of the intellect and the dignity of the human spirit. The line is from his book, ‘Thoughts on Various Subjects’, which reads, “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed”.
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