KHALISTAN EXTREMISM MONITOR
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Riding the wave of popular sentiment on anti-farmer bill, secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has announced a reward of $10,000 for hoisting Khalistan flag at Shambhu toll plaza at Punjab-Haryana border during farmers rally on Sunday.
Agencies have warned both Punjab and Haryana police to be on alert as the US-based SFJ's General Counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has given the call for raising Khalistan flag at Shambhu border to highlight its agenda that "independence from India is the only permanent solution".
During the farmers rally at Shambhu border, SFJ's referendum ambassadors will try to register votes for the outfit's 'Referendum 2020' agenda and will distribute literature to educate farmers about the permanent solution to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agricultural reform bills, agencies informed.
Situated on the Punjab-Haryana interstate border, Shambhu village in the Patiala district in Punjab has turned into a major hotspot of farmer protests in the area. While 31 farmer organisations laid siege to the railway tracks on New Delhi-Rajpura line here on Thursday for an indefinite period, the village has been witnessing protests since September 23 against the farm legislations. It is learnt that the farmers have planned a rally on Sunday at Shambhu border.
On September 25, thousands of farmers accompanied by social organisations and Punjabi artists staged a protest at the village, blocking the national highway throughout the day as part of their Punjab bandh call asking the Central government to withdraw the farm bills and guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
The agitation is continuing since the two Houses of Parliament last month passed The Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 during Monsoon Session.
Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, a leader of NDA ally Shiromani Akali Dal -- which enjoys significant support among the Sikh peasantry in Punjab and Haryana -- had resigned from the Union Cabinet, hours ahead of voting in the Lower House on the two earlier Bills on September 17.
The SFJ is trying to fish in troubled waters and is collecting applications and data from farmers of Punjab and Haryana from October 1-8 to distribute $1 million among those who are defaulting in agricultural loan payments.
Earlier the group had announced that from October 1 to October 8, any farmer -- irrespective of his faith -- can register 25 votes for the Khalistan Referendum 2020 and get a grant of Rs 5,000 as assistance to repay their agricultural loans.
The security agencies have since received inputs on the latest offer by SFJ.
Attributing the roots of Modi's land grabbing policy as legacy of "British Raj", the SFJ has launched a dedicated portal in British cyber space to distribute $1 million among farmers of Punjab and Haryana who are defaulting in agricultural loan payments, declaring "the distressed farmers can apply for a monthly grant till October 8".
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun recently stated that "its not only Modi's BJP but Congress, AAP and SAD (Badal) are equally complicit in throwing farmers to the corporate wolves".
"In Khalistan, all agricultural loans will be written off," Pannun claimed in his message.
Through the British portal www.khalistan4farmers.uk, the group also sought applications for Rs 5,000 monthly grant from farmers of Punjab and Haryana who own less than 5 acres of land and have defaulted on their agricultural loans.
During the last 90 days 221 plus farmers of Punjab have committed suicide due to the mounting pressure from agricultural loans and looming danger of their lands being taken by corporations under the New Farm Bills, SFJ's UK Coordinators Paramjeet Singh Pamma and Dupinderjit Singh have alleged.
The SFJ had earlier announced to hold its 'Referendum-2020' campaign in November this year. In September beginning the group had offered Rs 3,500 each as grant on monthly basis to woo Punjab farmers ahead of its anti-India 'Referendum-2020'.
Based on the National Investigation Agency's recommendation regarding ongoing anti-India activities of the SFJ, the Ministry of Home Affairs had, in the beginning of September, ordered attachment of properties of SFJ's key leaders -- Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Pannun is the SFJ's General Counsel while Nijjar is 'Referendum 2020' Canada coordinator.
The NIA said that the SFJ, headed by Pannun, is presently making efforts to propagate the 'Referendum-2020' on social media.
The MHA declared the SFJ as an 'unlawful association' under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act through a notification dated July 10 last year. The MHA, in a notification dated July 1, had designated Pannun, Nijjar and seven other pro-Khalistanis as 'terrorists' as per the Act's Fourth Schedule.
Source: https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=757353
Are Canadian communities being politically targeted by a state-sponsor of terrorism? The answer, according to a recent report by veteran former CBC journalist Terry Milewski, would appear to be yes.
Published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and titled “Khalistan: A
Project of Pakistan”, the report explores Pakistan’s ongoing sponsorship of
Khalistan-related extremism, defined by Canadian authorities as an ideology
supporting “violent means to establish an independent state within India.” This
mode of extremism was listed in a 2018 Canadian government report, as one of
the “top five national security issues for Canada”.
While these particular extremists seem to have successfully sidestepped some of the global notoriety of fellow extremist entities like the Muslim Brotherhood or its various offshoots, it has nevertheless compiled a competitive and distinguished resumé of egregious terrorist violence.
Canada in particular is painfully familiar with just how deadly this
particular genus of extremism can be.
The Canadian public first became fully aware of Khalistani extremism
with the 1985 Air India bombings. The attacks were the deadliest aviation
terrorist incident in history prior to 9/11, murdering 329 people including 286
Canadian citizens, 86 children and 29 entire nuclear families.
These bombings were a distinctly Canadian event – perpetrated by Canadians, targeting Canadians; and orchestrated from Canadian soil. But, as noted by Milewski, the Air India victims represent only a small fraction of the Khalistani extremist body count. Over a 12-year period ending in 1993, 21,469 lives, mostly Sikh, were murdered primarily by Sikh fundamentalists, in the Sikh home state of the Punjab.
The 2018 government report would seem to strengthen earlier reporting by Milewski and other journalists that supporters of violent Khalistan-related extremism have remained neither politically dormant nor ideologically reticent in Canada. But Milewski’s most recent report goes a step further, perhaps shedding light on the current prioritization of Khalistani extremism by Canadian security officials.
As compellingly laid out in his report, Milewski contends that this extremist element is not acting independently. Rather, it has foreign state support from a regime described by the Brookings Institution and other think tanks as one of the world’s most prolific sponsors of terrorism – the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The same Pakistan which drove out millions of Hindus and Sikhs in the
aftermath of partition, leaving a quarter of a million Sikhs among the dead.
The same Pakistan that has subjected the remaining 10,000 Sikhs under its
dominion to forced conversions, attacks on gurdwaras and worsening
discrimination. The same regime that brutally oppresses other Muslim and
non-Muslim minorities and sentences people to death for blasphemy. And the very
same Pakistan that has shown no proclivity for ceding a single inch of Sikh
“territory” located in Pakistan to the proposed Khalistani state it
enthusiastically supports if established on sovereign territory belonging to
its arch-rival, India.
As Milewski demonstrates, Pakistan’s cynical interest in the Khalistan issue is not new. He traces Pakistan’s proximity to and support of Khalistani violent extremism from Justice Major’s findings in the Air India inquiry to present efforts to hold a “referendum” for November 2020, by proponents of an independent Khalistan. The current referendum campaign, argues Milewski, is supported primarily by Khalistani separatists in the West enjoying a close relationship with the Pakistani government, a contention that is likely to be denied and vigorously challenged by the organizers.
Canada for its part has already declared its support for a united India and will not recognize this referendum, and according to Milewski’s data it would appear there is little appetite for this idea in the Punjab itself. The last Punjabi elections saw the success of a fervently anti-separatist government in this Sikh-majority state which is home to 92% of all Sikhs, with separatists claiming a paltry 0.32% share of the vote.
It is also unclear whether the Sikh diaspora, which Milewski emphasizes
will not and should not forget the “vicious pogroms which took thousands of
Sikh lives” in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, will
show up to vote, in what numbers, or how they will vote if they do.
To be clear, choosing to support an independent Khalistan in no way
renders one an extremist, and opposing that same proposition does not define
one as a racist. But whatever the results may be, the only predetermined “winner”
in this plebiscite will be Pakistan itself. A Pakistan that, according to
Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistani Ambassador to Washington, has supported
Khalistani extremism and other Islamist terrorist entities, primarily “to bleed
India”.
It is hardly a surprising allegation. Pakistan frankly is a state that has adeptly proven itself quite proficient at literally bleeding others — and Canadian citizens have been amongst the victims who have bled at the hands of Pakistani enabled terrorism.
The regime’s strategic penchant as an accelerant of extremism and violence is therefore a threat to all sides of the Khalistani equation, and Pakistan should be given no place in this debate. That being said, Canada has very good reason to give the Pakistani regime a prominent place on Canada’s list of state sponsors of terrorism with all the ignominy entailed in such a listing. Pakistan is already listed on the FATF’s “grey list” for concerns over terrorism financing, and Milewski’s report should provide further impetus for Canada to add Pakistan to Iran and Syria, on its list of states that utilize the scourge of terrorism as a preferred form of statecraft.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL that sought action against social media giant Twitter on the charge of involvement in a conspiracy to promote the Khalistan movement of radical Sikhs.
A Division Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad declined the petition on the ground that petitioner Sangeeta Gupta had not made a representation to the central government and instead directly approached the court.
"Merely because you say something is in public interest doesn't mean you don't approach the government first," the court said.
When the petitioner's counsel said that a member of Parliament had raised the issue, the court questioned: "Are you the gentleman's lawyer? We don't propose to entertain this petition without you making a representation first to the authority concerned."
The plea contended that some "promoted handles" on Twitter were used for promoting the agenda for a separate Khalistan.
"... Respondent No 5 (Twitter India) deliberately and knowingly in order to create rift in society deliberately promoted the prohibited content of the Sikhs For Justice."
"... in the absence of any law to deal with offensive and hate messages, platforms like Twitter are knowingly promoting messages that are against the law of the land and, therefore, the Respondent needs to explain circulation and promotion of prohibited content...," the plea added.
The plea had sought court directions to the Ministry of Law and Justice, Information Technology Ministry and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to formulate a mechanism to check the content and advertisements promoting anti-national agenda and hatred among communities.
"The brazen attack on the sovereignty and integrity of India on Twitter is to the detriment of citizens as a whole. Hence the present PIL," the plea said.
The petitioner also sought an NIA inquiry as many users promoting the cause of Khalistan were stationed outside India.
Source: http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=756332
Pannun told TOI on Saturday, “A day after the rally, SFJ will start distributing $1million among farmers who have defaulted agricultural loan payments”.
However, SFJ never declared the names of beneficiaries whom it had extended financial help.
A Canadian think-tank that recently published an explosive report, which argued that the Khalistan separatist movement is a project of Pakistan, has said it stood by the author and his findings despite a sustained campaign against both.
Pro-Khalistan elements in Canada have held protests against the report titled Khalistan: A Project of Pakistan, written by veteran Canadian broadcaster Terry Milewski. The MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) was criticised in an open letter written by over 50 Sikh scholars, as well as by the World Sikh Organisation (WSO).
“We reject attempts to bully the Institute or its authors into silence,” the Ottawa-based think tank said in a statement.
The letter sent by the Sikh scholars had said, “We hope that you carefully consider our concerns and re-evaluate your decision to publish such vitriolic content under your institute’s name, particularly considering the lack of academic integrity and the gravity of the accusations being levelled against a highly visible, racialised community.”
MLI said it is simply false to argue that the report somehow criticises or marginalises the Sikh community or Sikh political activism.
“The paper in no way maligns or criticises Sikhs or Sikhism as a community or religion. It instead criticises pro-Khalistani extremism, detailing how such extremism is catalysed by Pakistan, and rightly rejected by the vast majority of Sikhs.”
The WSO, in a statement, had said that the report released earlier this month was “poorly researched”, made “unfounded claims”, failed “to engage in a contextually based analysis”, made “no attempt to present a balanced analysis on the issue” and “uncritically” parroted “a narrative” that is “pushed by India with respect to Sikhs in Canada.”
This argument was also countered by MLI, saying the “report does not suggest or insinuate what the letter signatories and other critics have come to conclude without evidence, nor have the actual claims made in the report been refuted.”
In the report, Milewski had connected the WSO to the separatist Khalistan movement, citing its Constitution.
In an emailed response to the criticism, Milewski said, “it does not dispute the whole thesis of the article. It does not dispute the Pakistani role in the Khalistan movement, and it does not dispute that support in India is very weak, or even that the movement is fulfilling Pakistan’s purpose in bleeding India without doing anything to create a Sikh state.
“In that sense, it’s hard to see how I could ask for more. Still, I think the Khalistani reaction reveals a degree of desperation that I had not expected.”
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/canadian-think-tank-defends-report-linking-pakistan-to-khalistani-separatists/story-omAMV1GvNZCGQyU3YMXhUJ.html
The Punjab Police on Friday arrested two Pakistan-backed drug smugglers in the Khem Karan sector of Tarn Taran along the International Border, and seized 13 kg of heroin from them.
A manhunt has been launched to nab another accomplice, said the police.
The arrested have been identified as Jora Singh and his associate Ranjit Singh alias Rana Singh.
The two were planning to deliver the consignment to drug syndicates and suppliers across the state, the police added.
Their arrest has exposed the nexus between drug smugglers operating in Punjab and their handlers in Pakistan, said DGP Dinkar Gupta.
The operation was carried out by a team led by SSP, Tarn Taran, Dhruman Nimbale. It included SP (Narcotics); DSP (Bhikhiwind); In Charge (Narcotics); SHO, Khem Karan; and SHO, Sarai Amant Khan.
An FIR under sections 21 and 29 of the NDPS Act has been lodged at Khem Karan police station in this case, said the police.
Acting of specific information, Tarn Taran Police increased their vigil on Jora Singh, a resident of Mahedipur village.
Jora Singh was apprehended by security agencies near the IB for suspicious activities in August 2019 and is out on bail since March 2020.
Four FIRs are already registered against him for drug smuggling, in which huge quantity of narcotic substance was recovered. He has also amassed a number of properties without any legal source of income, said the police.
The DGP Gupta said that initial investigations had revealed that Jora Singh, along with his two associates – Pawandeep Singh and Ranjit Singh – was in touch with Pakistan-based smugglers and was trying to procure a heroin from the Pakistan side into the Rattoke border out-post (BOP) area.
They had also conducted recce near the IB, Rattoke village, he said.
During investigation, Ranjit Singh, a resident of Havelian, admitted that he had organised the delivery of a heroin consignment that was scheduled to arrive in the area of BOP Rattoke from Pakistan, said the top cop.
The BSF was contacted immediately and taken into the loop and the heroin recovery was made from about 50 metres from the zero line, he added.
Ranjit Singh, resident of Sarai Amanat Khan, has three FIRs registered against him and he was out on bail since October 14, 2014.
There are also two FIRs against Pawandeep Singh, a resident of Sidhwan, for his involvement in drug trafficking and he was out on bail since February 20, 2018, said the police.
As thousands of Indian farmers protest against the three contentious agriculture-related Bills passed by Parliament, banned US-based secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) is trying to fish in troubled waters, declaring a grant of $1 million for farmers in Punjab and Haryana in lieu of their support for Khalistan.
This new offer from the SFJ has alerted security and intelligence agencies, which have promptly shared the latest inputs with law-enforcement wings in both the states.
Authorities have directed the state police forces for “quick action” against such elements trying to pursue an anti-India agenda amid a critical situation vis-a-vis the farmers.
Capitalising on the ongoing protests by farmers, the SFJ said it would distribute $1 million among farmers who had defaulted on agricultural loans.
“From October 1 to October 8, any farmer — irrespective of his faith — can register 25 votes for the Khalistan Referendum 2020 and get a grant of Rs 5,000 as assistance to repay their agricultural loans,” SJF said. The security agencies have since received inputs on the latest offer by SFJ.
Dubbing the Indian government’s new farms Bills as a “colonial agenda to ultimately turn the farmers landless”, SFJ General Counsel, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, said in his announcement that “the Modi government wants to enslave the farmers of Punjab and Haryana by turning them into destitutes. The SFJ has included farmers of Haryana also because we consider Haryana as part of Khalistan”.
The two Houses of Parliament have passed The Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The Bills, after President’s assent, will be notified as laws.
Source: https://www.siasat.com/sfj-now-announces-1-mn-grant-to-farmers-for-khalistan-support-1981789/
Pakistan has been eliminating its Sikh population for decades through killings, rapes, abductions and forced marriages of young women, yet it is funding and fuelling Khalistani terrorism and separatist movement globally to achieve it sinister plans to break up India, a Canadian expert has said.
The expert Terry Milewski, who authored a recently released report on the subject, made the remarks while was speaking at a webinar "Khalistani Terrorism and Canada" organised by Delhi-headquartered think-tank Law and Society Alliance through video conferencing on September 18. Milewski, who wrote the September 9 report "Khalistan: A Project of Pakistan" published by the Canadian think-tank MacDonald-Laurier Institute, said the Khalistani terrorists have sworn their allegiance to Pakistan, which in turn has pledged to play the tunes of China.
The MacDonald-Laurier Institute report has taken the Khalistani extremists by storm, triggering an intense global debate on Khalistani terrorism, and exposing Pakistan's major hand in it.
Milewski said his report had exposed the Khalistan extremists and Pakistan, where real Sikhs still suffer from forcible conversion to Islam, attack on gurdwaras, abductions and killings.
He said the trigger for writing the report even after 35 years of the Khalistani terrorists' Air India bombing, the largest mass killing Canada had ever seen and its victims yet to see complete justice delivered, was the ambitious Khalistan map that he saw of the 'Referendum 2020' campaign.
The proposed Khalistan map had included several parts of India, including some landmass of Rajasthan, the entire Indian side of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi.
"But this map, put up by Sikhs For Justice as part of the voter enlisting exercise in Canada, did not claim a single inch of Pakistani territory as part of Khalistan. It should have included Lahore, from where Maharaja Ranjit Singh ran an empire, and Nakanana Sahib, where Guru Nanak DevJi was born. Why are those parts of land with Sikh history being left out? The answer is that people who are organising the movement for Khalistan cannot afford to run the campaign without Pakistan's monetary and other kinds of support. They do not want to annoy their masters."
Milewskicriticised liberal nations like Canada for waiting for the Khalistani terrorists to strike and kill its citizens rather than to act pre-emptively despite tell-tale signs of the plot regarding the Air India flight.
Member of the UK's House of Lords, Remi Ranger thanked Milewski for the "explosive" report and noted that his credibility made it even more powerful.
Source: https://www.sentinelassam.com/national-news/pakistan-kills-sikhs-but-funds-fuels-khalistani-terror-elsewhere-502559
In a rare occurrence, the Akal Takht has announced to confer title of “Jilawatan Sikh Yodha” (Sikh warrior in-exile) on Gajinder Singh, one of the five men accused of hijacking an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore in 1981.
Presently, Gajinder, the founding member of Dal Khalsa, has been residing in Lahore.
It is learnt that the five high priests headed by Akal Takht’s officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh, had decided to honour Gajinder for his contribution to the Sikh Panth, during the meeting held on September 18.
Today, Akal Takht Secretariat officially informed the Dal Khalsa Head Office in Amritsar through a letter in this regard. Identical letter was sent to Gajinder’s daughter Bikramjit Kaur who lives in UK with her husband and two children.
Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh Bittu said Akal Takht letter has authorised Gajinder’s daughter or any representative from Dal Khalsa to receive this honour at Akal Takht.
Kanwarpal Singh said the Akal Takht letter has been forwarded to Gajinder too. “As per the contents of the letter, though the Akal Takht has authorised his daughter or Dal Khalsa office to receive the coveted title, it also mentioned that it would be the prerogative of Gajinder only to take a final call on the one who would receive the honour on his behalf,” he said.
The final date of the customary ceremony would be announced in due course. “Probably, it would be scheduled during mid-October,” he said.
Gajinder along with four others had hijacked the Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines flight IC423, with 111 passengers and six crew members on board, to Lahore on September 29, 1981 to protest against the arrest of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and death of 16 Sikhs in police firing at Chowk Mehta earlier that year.
They were arrested by Pakistan agencies on September 30, tried and jailed. They were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Lahore in 1986.
After they got scot-free in November 1994, two of the hijackers returned to India, Gajinder decided to stay back, the two others took asylum in Switzerland.
India had put Gajinder Singh’s name in the list of 20 “most wanted” terrorists in January 2002 and had been seeking his extradition from Pakistan.
“After the Parliament attack on December 13, 2001, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had handed over a list of six most wanted persons, including him, and demanded that he be deported to India. However, the then Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf had turned down India’s demand,” he said.
This year the government has twice blocked Gajinder Singh’s Facebook page in India.
Gajinder hails from Chandigarh and his wife Manjeet Kaur passed away in Germany in January 2019.
A report published earlier this month is proving to be an eye opener for people aware with the debates around Khalistani terrorism. Canadian journalist and researcher Terry Milewski’s report titled ‘Khalistan — a project of Pakistan', published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI),has empirically and objectively deconstructed the Khalistani terror network and traced its roots to Pakistan. The report was well received and has subsequently triggered intense debates amongst the external observer.
However, a group of pro-Khalistani elements, based out of Western Countries , soon came up to counter the report in order to neutralize its impact and delegitimize it. Their hurried attempt to counteract against the report is really interesting, as they floated a website on 15th September and uploaded a public letter addressed to the Ottawa based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, criticizing the report and expressing their ‘concern’ on it.
“A close look of the website suggests that “www.sikhscholarsresponse.com” was registered on 15" September and the letter was uploaded on it on the same day. Most strikingly, the website has only one web-page in it and does not contain other content, links, or web pages except the letter,which has been published on its homepage. This reflects that the website was created solely for the purpose of uploading this letter.” Sources told to Zee Media.
Besides, making three allegations, the letter has asked MLI to “reevaluate your (MLI’s) decision to publish such vitriolic content under your institute’s name”. The letter has further expressed, “we are concerned to read a report that contains a litany of conclusory statements and allegations without any substantiation”.
It is noteworthy that the letter has been signed by individuals from over a dozen organisations and institutions. Still, it failed to gain organizational credibility, highlighting that the Khalistani elements are eventually losing the feeble support that they had amongst the civil society organisation and educational institutions.
It is also worth mentioning that most of the signatories out of 53 individuals endorsing the letter are infamous for taking an anti-India position and indulging in anti-India activities in the West. Reportedly, the letter was drafted by Harjeet Singh Grewal — Instructor of Sikh Studies at Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary. It is believed that he reached out to other signatories under the guidance of the Pakistani ISI, as a number of the signatories have strong connections to Pak missions in the West, especially in Canada.
The letter has also been signed by pro-Khalistan Indra Prahst, who has strong connections with Pakistani Consulate in Vancouver. She has previously interviewed several Pakistani Consul Generals and has been participating in anti-India events organised by the Pakistani Consulate. Another signatory who underlines the organic linkages of Khalistani extremists with Pakistan is Hafsa Kanjwal, who has pro-separatist sentiments and has been opposing India’s position on Jammu and Kashmir and has been contributing to the anti-India advocacy campaigns of Pakistani mission. Her connections with radical Islamist organizations in the in the Western countries also keep resurfacing.
“The Pakistani connection of this letter provides the rationale for the silence of Khalistani elements to question human rights violations of minorities in Pakistan, including the targeted attacks on the Sikh minorities. They have kept mum over exclusion of the larger territory of so called ‘Khalistan’ that falls in Pakistan. In fact, all of Pakistani Punjab comes under this landmass. However, under ISI’s pressure, they have failed to include that part in the map of Khalistan.” said an official deployed in Central Security.
In another interesting development of attacking the dissenting voices,pro-Khalistani elements along with the ISI proxies are attacking a New Delhi based non-profit organisation — Law and Society Alliance (LSA). As soon as the organisation broke the news of organising a webinar on the said report and invited Terry Milewski to deliver a talk, these elements began attacking the Twitter handle of LSA - @LawSocietyAlly and mass reporting it to bring it down. They also attacked the Twitter handle of co-organiser of the event Defence Capital - @DefenceCapital. LSA plans to organise a webinar on “Khalistani Terrorism and Canada” on 18th September, wherein the report of Terry Milewski would be discussed along with Terry, Member of House of Lords, UK Parliament Lord Rami Ranger and California based Punjab foundation’s Chairman Sukhi Chahal have also been invited as speakers .Organisers anticipates that pro-Khalistani elements will keep targeting the event.
“The pro-Khalistani forces are trying to silence the voice of Indians and other nationalities who raise their voice against the Khalistani terrorism and how Pakistan is the conspirator of this terrorism and separatism movement.” said N. C. Bipindra, Chairman of Law and Society Alliance and Editor of Defence.Capital
The worst state of affairs is that the pro-Khalistani elements operate from liberal and open countries of the West but have themselves failed to provide space to opposing voices. They seemingly prefer a one-way model of communication as at numerous instances, the pro-Khalistani elements have restricted the entry of pro-India or dissenting voices to their events and Gurudwaras.
Terry Milewski has been a veteran reporter, with an experience of over four decades of journalism. He has also closely covered the Khalistani terrorism in India and in the west, since its early days. Rebuttal to such an authority on the Khalistan issue had to be logical, rational and factual. However, countering not with concrete but ambiguous criticisms and umbrella allegations highlights the ‘gagging acts’ of the pro-Khalistani elements to silence the voices opposing them.
Source: https://zeenews.india.com/world/with-isi-backing-khalistani-elements-targets-canadian-journalist-who-authored-khalistan-a-project-of-pakistan-2310223.html