The recent expulsion of Pavan Kumar Rai, the Bharat diplomat in the High Commission of Canada, reminds one of the shenanigans played by that country in the past and portends towards other such or more serious anti-Bharat steps of the said country. The expulsion of the diplomat and rants of Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, in the parliament of that country has to be taken very seriously by Bharat. If we study the actions of Canada, we discover that they are not the brain-child of Justin Trudeau only, they are part of larger anti-Bharat designs of the Anglo-Saxon bloc.
Canada has harboured Khalistani elements for a long on its soil. Many times, observers have a view that the anti-Bhartiya stance of the Canadian regime reflects its mindset of nurturing the Sikh vote bank.
It is a completely wrong notion. According to the latest reports, Sikhs constitute only 2.1 per cent of the Canadian population. For such a small number no political party will give 4 ministerial berths (now 3 after the resignation of Bains) to the representative of that community. Moreover, as far as the Khalistani idea is concerned, even in Canada there is a small fringe of the Sikh community which can be considered as Khalistani sympathisers and that too has been assiduously created and nurtured by Pakistani ISI in cahoots with its Canadian counterpart. If one goes into the electoral arithmetic of the Canadian Sikh community then the percentage of Hindus in that country is 2.3 per cent which is a notch above the Sikh population. To garner 2.1 per cent of votes no seasoned politician will antagonise 2.3 per cent of voters. Therefore, the notion that only the Canadian regime supports Khalistan is far-fetched.
Two factors have to be adequately analysed: Why Anglo-Saxon countries keep troubling Bharat with the Khalistani needle and how they are executing their plans. In the pre-Second World War era, Britain used to be the leader of the Anglo-Saxon bloc; later, due to the steep depletion of its financial and military clout, the baton was transferred to the mighty United States (USA). From 1945 to 1991, the year of the Soviet disintegration, the entire Geopolitics of this bloc was focused on defeating the Soviets. As Bharat was non-aligned and perceived to be pursuing socialist policies, a toolkit was designed by the USA to destabilise our country. The creation of insurgencies and funding of separatist elements was and is part of that toolkit.
The so-called champions of democracy, the Anglo-Saxon countries, armed, funded and extended diplomatic support to Pakistani military dictators at the cost of democratic Bharat. When we were suffering one of the worst droughts in decades in the year 1965, Lyndon Johnson, president of the USA supplied Paton tanks and Sabre jets to the Military dictator of Pakistan, Ayub Khan, and provoked an attack on Bharat. Later in the year 1971 when Pakistani military dictator Yahaya Khan unleashed a reign of terror in East Pakistan and killed 3 million hapless Bengalis, his General Tikka Khan, known as the butcher of Bangladesh and his troops indulged in the rapes of countless Bengali women, the custodians of the human rights, the USA and its allies remained mute spectators. Around 9 million tormented Bengalis from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) sought refuge in Bharat; we took the matter to all global forums but the Anglo-Saxons turned their heads the other way. The custodians of human rights did not consider Bangladeshis as humans. The USA even sent its seventh fleet to the Bay of Bengal to thwart the liberation of Bangladesh.
In the aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in the year 1971, Pakistan, instead of introspection about its atrocities in the eastern part of its territory, embarked upon a project of creation of insurgencies and terrorist groups on the soil of Bharat. The USA and the United Kingdom (UK) willingly became connivers in the nefarious designs of Pakistan. Jagjeet Singh Chauhan, who for the first time coined the term Khalistan and earlier had remained a minister in the Akali Dal-led Government in Punjab, first went to Pakistan and from there to the USA to help the ISI and the Central Intelligence Agencies (CIA), in their project Breaking India. Later Ganga Singh Dhillon, another protagonist of Khalistan joined the ranks in the USA. The Government of Bharat’s repeated requests for extradition of the wanted persons fell on deaf ears.
Talwinder Singh Parmar, accused of killing two Punjab police officers, ran away to Canada in the year 1984 and our attempts to get him extradited remained futile. Next year while Pierre Trudeau, father of Justin, was PM of Canada, Parmar planted a bomb in Air India flight 182 and caused the death of 329 innocent passengers. The champions of democracy and custodians of human rights, remained mute spectators because, in the pursuit of their noble cause of the disintegration of Soviet Russia, the value of Bhartiya’s lives was negligible. During the decade of 1979-89, the prime objective of the Anglo-Saxon nations in particular and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in general remained the expulsion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), from Afghanistan. Pakistan being the immediate neighbor of the said country, played an important role in Western plans. Zia-ul-Haq, a wily military dictator extracted a maximum number of concessions from the USA and its allies; it included funds, diplomatic support and military hardware. Pakistan’s covert nuclear program gained momentum in the said decade and the USA despite having tangible intelligence about it, turned Nelson’s eye towards it. Pakistan had discovered that in conventional warfare it could not win from India hence the formulation of the doctrine of hybrid warfare. Its designs included fueling insurgencies in various parts of Bharat and funding and arming anarchist groups like Naxalites. Gen Zia famously called the plan “bleeding India through thousand cuts”. The Anglo-Saxon group extended overt and covert support to Gen Zia-ul-Haq. These nations did not lose any opportunity to stymie Bharat’s progress in the technological field also; technologies of supercomputers and cryogenic engines for our space programs were denied to us. When Russia agreed to supply technology for cryogenic engines, these very nations imposed Sanctions on it.
Post December 25, 1991, the outlook of the Anglo-Saxons changed towards Bharat. The Hammer and Sickle flag of the USSR flew for the last time in the Kremlin and one of the two superpowers of the world had disintegrated. Majorly, three factors caused the change in the Western dealings with Bharat. Firstly, the sworn enemy of NATO, the USSR had ceased to exist and Pakistan’s strategic importance lessened hence reconfiguration of relations with Bharat.
Secondly and most importantly, Bharat had jettisoned the socialistic economic paradigm and had embarked upon policies of Liberalisation. That presented the USA and its ally countries with the largest middle class in the world and a population of 1 billion (today it is 1.4 billion) as potential consumers. Thirdly, China was slowly replacing the erstwhile USSR as a superpower and Bharat was needed as a counterweight.
With the signing of the Bharat-USA nuclear deal, observations were made that a new era of the relations between Bharat and the Western world was going to be scripted. Of course, the deal was a win-win for both as Bharat’s entry into NSG (Nuclear suppliers’ group) was paved and technology for nuclear reactors was made available. For the USA and its allies, they created a nuclear superpower right at the doorstep of China. However, the toolkit to disturb Bharat, though it was redesigned, remained in its place. Earlier it was USSR-centric with Pakistani ISI playing an important role in it. Today, it is to extract favourable terms for the American corporates and to facilitate the sale of costly weapon systems to Bharat. When we preferred the Russian S 400, anti-missile defence system over Patriots of the USA, the toolkit was activated. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a Khalistani outfit created on the soil of the USA, obviously with the blessings of the state power, announced a referendum on Khalistan. Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, head of the said outfit is routinely issuing threats to Hindus of Canada and Bhartiya diplomats stationed in various embassies and high commissions, worldwide, but the so-called custodians of the freedom of speech are not extraditing him to Bharat.
Today, fortunately, the foreign policy of Bharat is in the hands of dedicated and astute diplomats. They have carefully nuanced diplomatic initiatives and understand geo-strategic imperatives thoroughly. Recently, when it suited Bharat to buy cheap petroleum from Russia, despite pressure from the Western lobby, our policymakers put their foot down and sidelined the arm-twisting tactics of the USA. Anglo-Saxons wanted Bharat to tow their line in the Ukraine-Russia conflict too, but we took a neutral stand keeping in view our long-standing relations with Russia. Participation of Bharat in QUAD, alongside the USA, Japan and Australia is a highly important geo-strategic step to neutralise Chinese designs of expansionism.
Today, owing to our long-standing border dispute with China and its policy of troubling us through its puppet state Pakistan, our foreign policy is gravitating towards the USA-led western states. However, we should not forget that the Anglo-Saxon countries are highly unreliable and untrustworthy. In the name of freedom of speech, human rights and democracy, they will keep on troubling us through people like George Soros and his stooges like Gurpatwant Singh Pannu. How the 5 Eye alliance of the Anglo-Saxon nations which includes the USA, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, deals with the Khalistani troublemakers will determine Bharat’s future relations with them. There are no permanent friends or foes in international politics.
Nobody knows tomorrow China may forget Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh and the West may have to deal with a bloc of Bharat, Russia and China.
