Recently, during the Deepwali celebrations at Brampton, Canada a Hindu crowd gathered at a temple, was attacked by a group of people supporting the Khalistan movement. The attackers also include a police officer from the Canadian police. However, later on, that policeman was suspended from his duties. This attack has shown us a new pattern as earlier these terrorists used to create chaos on August 15 and January 26, but now they are creating havoc in the socio-cultural celebrations of the Hindu community!
In the past several months strains on the Bharat-Canada relations has been occurring due to the issue of Khalistan. But this is not the first time that due to the Khalistan issue miscreants have created problems for Bharatiya community in foreign lands.
Earlier in October 2023 these rogue elements held a protest outside the Bhartiya High Commission in London with a anti-Bharat rhetoric. Before these violent protests, the Bhartiya High Commissioner in United Kingdom Vikram Doraiswamy was stopped by these Khalistani activists from entering a Gurudwara in Scotland’s Glasgow . However the Gurudwara later issued a statement and condemned this it by stating that it was a show of “disorderly behaviour to disrupt the peaceful proceedings of a Sikh place of worship.”
In the same 2023 , such type of protests also occurred outside the Bhartiya High commission at Canada by these terrorists . On April, 2024 the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner was summoned by the Ministry of External Affairs at New Delhi with regard to the raising of separatist slogans on ‘Khalistan’ at an event personally attended by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The statement by the Ministry has stated that the Canadian official has been cautioned that this will “encourage a climate of violence and criminality”, this speculation of the ministry has been proven by the Brampton attacks. The statement by the Ministry read : “The Government of India’s deep concern and strong protest was conveyed at such disturbing actions being allowed to continue unchecked at the event. This illustrates once again the political space that has been given in Canada to separatism, extremism and violence. Their continued expressions not only impact Indo-Canada relations but also encourage a climate of violence and criminality in Canada to the detriment of its own citizens.”
But today there is a need to understand this movement of Khalistan in the light of the new emerging warfare tactics. Today the world has moved from a warfare where explosion was their, rather their has now been a implosion in the target’s territory inform of internal disturbances and social unrest. This generation of warfare is known as Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW), where non kinetic weapons like Propaganda, Disinformation and Misinformation campaigns and Social Engineering was used as a tool to dismantle the target.
Bharat is a diverse country . Since the time immemorial embracing diversity has been the original Bhartiya content. But with the arrival of Fifth Generation Warfare these diversities have been treated as social faultlines and a expansion of these faultlines by the use of propaganda and social engineering will lead to social unrest in the country. Earlier this tactic has divided Bharat and led to the creation of Pakistan ! Now the Khalistan conspiracy has been the part of the same thread.
Khalistan and the Colonial Conspiracy
The British in order to divide the society, has picked away Muslim leaders like Jinnah to carry forward their divisive agenda among the Muslims. But it was impossible for the British to find someone in the Sikh community, who could further their treacherous anti-Hindu divisive agenda among the Sikh community .
So for this, the British used one from their ranks to perform this work . That person was Max Arthur Macauliffe . Macauliffe was born on September 10, 1841 in Ireland . In 1862 Macauliffe qualified the Indian Civil Services (ICS) examination and in 1864 was posted in Punjab .
With the help of Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha , Macauliffe converted into Sikhism and undertook the task of translating the Sikh manuscripts including the pious Guru Granth Sahib . He translated the Sikh scripture in a colonial framework, which will eventually fed the British agenda .
In 1897, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha wrote a pamphlet, which later on become the basis of Khalistan movement, titled “Hum Hindu Nahi” . A white man, now a devoted Sikh, has been a major development . The high esteem of Macauliffe in the British Colonial State apparatus gave him a position of repute in the Sikh community !
Macauliffe engineered to create a divide between the Hindus and Sikhs, through his propaganda works by misquoting the sacred texts .
Sardar Khushwant Singh , a noted Sikh historian and author, in his introduction to the Macauliffe’s celebrated work “The Sikhs, their religion, Gurus, sacred writings and Authors”, wrote :
“It has been suggested that the British government of the day had sinister motives in commissioning Macauliffe to undertake this work . That Sikhs were fast relapsing back into the Hindu fold was recorded by Lord Dalhousie soon after he annexed the Sikh Kingdom . He and other British administrators felt that it would serve their interests better if the Khalsa Sikhs were encouraged to retain their separate and distinct identity .”
The technique adopted by Macauliffe to alienate the Sikh community from the social mainstream and convert it into an ally of the British Masters, was to invoke the ‘divine’ injunctions .
Sikh For Justice (SFJ) and Khalistan Referendum, 2021
Sikh For Justice, a terrorist organisation working in the foreign soil with a aim to balkanise Bharat, was founded by a terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun . It is a banned outfit as a unlawful organisation in Bharat since 2019 . According to then Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh SFJ “had unleashed a wave of terror in Punjab in recent years” .
SFJ in 2021 organised the Khalistan referendum in various countries. This is an unofficial non binding referendum organised regarding the creation of Khalistan, thus putting a plan to balkanise Bharat again on the lines of 1947 . This attracted criticism from across the Bharat as well as the world. Former New Zealand MP Kanwaljeet Bakshi opposed the referendum on the lines that it will strain the Bharat-New Zealand relations and it affects the Bharat’s territorial integrity also .
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was the same person who had recently threatened for a attack on Air India flight and also opined for the balkanisation of Bharat by calling for the separation of states like Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh . The anti Bharat statements and acts by Pannun makes a very long list which is available in the public domain for discourse !
Canadian Politics and Khalistani Extremism
Currently the number of Sikhs in Canada exceeds 7,70,000 . The Sikh immigration to Canada happened in between late 19th century and early 20th century when Sikhs were the part of British army.
Today the influence of Sikhs can be felt among the various sectors of the socio-political life of Canada like Real Estate, Trucking, Construction etc. Later on the Financial and Economic success of the Sikhs in Canada has been translated into political influence which also paved the way for Khalistani Terrorism in the Canadian Politics .
The Sikh community have a strong say in the Liberal Party of Canada, due to its pro immigration policies . However, the Liberal Party also receives a large sum of donations from the people belonging to the Sikh community and it’s a obvious fact that a many of these donors are the supporters of Khalistani Terrorism, not the entire community ! Due to which the Liberal Party in order to appease these rogue elements have to support the Khalistan issue .
During the 1980s when the Bharat’s state apparatus started to apply a iron fist over these Khalistani terrorists in the country, these terrorists fled away from Bharat and took asylum in the countries having lenient and pro immigration policies ,and Canada was one of the nation among them .
These Khalistani Terrorists use to run their anti-Bharat propaganda under the barge of ‘Human Rights activism’ and ‘Right of Self Determination’ and they get the support of Canadian state machinery in fueling this agenda of balkanisation of Bharat .
However, for the several times the Government of Bharat had requested the Canadian Government for the extradition of the Khalistani Terrorists . But such extradition requests were used to be rejected by the Canadian Government ! Earlier in 1980s, the then Government of Bharat headed by Smt. Indira Gandhi requested for the extradition of terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar, but the request was rejected by the then government of Canada headed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, father of the current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ! Parmar founded the terrorist outfit Babbar Khalsa, later on in 1985 it orchestrated the Kanishka Bombings, in which 329 people were killed, primarily Canadians and Canadian Government has to face severe criticism from the world .
International Media and Khalistan
Randeep Ramesh wrote a obituary for a separatist Jagjit Singh Chauhan in “The Guardian” on April 10, 2007, after Chauhan’s death and mentioned that Chauhan in a notorious BBC interview in 1984 had called for the ‘beheading’ of the then Bhartiya Prime Minister Smt.Indira Gandhi and her family and later in the same year Smt.Gandhi was assassinated !
Recently a article titled “Sikh Activists See it as Freedom. India calls it Terrorism”, appeared in the New York Times . The article glorifies Khalistani Terrorism and wants that Bharat should stop to see Khalistani Terrorism as a National security issue .
Earlier on November 27, 2023 TIME magazine published a long interview of the Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun .
Bhartiya Opposition and Khalistani Terrorists
Bhartiya opposition in its hatred towards the Prime Minister Modi has crossed the lines in such a way that now they are in the row to support the anti-Bharat activities and even ready to sought support from them in order to defeat the BJP and Mr.Modi .
In his recent visit to USA this year, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi had claimed that Sikhs in Bharatwere not allowed to wear turban and kada and also were not allowed to visit the Gurudwara ! And Mr.Gandhi get the support of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in his assertions ! And strangely till now no official condemnation by the Congress has been their to clear of the records.
Earlier also in 2018 a controversy stirred up the public domain when the image of the Congress Leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surfaced over the public sphere in which he is grown to be posing with Khalistani Terrorist Gopal Singh Chawla. A day before meeting Sidhu, Chawla was spotted alongside with the then Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa .
In the same year of 2018 a sting by senior journalist Shawna Sen created shockwaves in the public domain in which the Khalistani Terrorists accepted that they are working on a grand plan to create social unrest in Bharat by working in alliance with the China, Pakistan and Maoists ! In the same sting, member of once banned Dal Khalsa, Gurcharan Singh has admitted that in 2017 Punjab Assembly Elections Dal Khalsa supported Aam Aadmi Party !
Khalistani Terrorism : A threat to national Security of United Kingdom
In February 2023, the PREVENT Review report was tabled in the UK Parliament . PREVENT is one of the four pillars viz PREVENT, PERSUE, PROTECT and PREPARE, constituting the CONTEST, the official counter Terrorism strategy of the UK Government.
Acknowledging the menace of Khalistani terrorism as a threat to UK’s National Security the PREVENT Report in page 146 stated that “While the current threat is low, praise for violence overseas and a simultaneous belief in a state-led campaign of repression domestically is a potentially toxic combination for the future.”
Earlier in April 2022, then British Prime Minister Borris Johnson on his visit to Bharat had advocated that in order to tackle the “Khalistani terrorists” who were “ threatening India”, both the Bharat and the UK government have agreed to set up an “anti-extremist Task Force” .
There has been a war waged against Bharat by the global forces in order to weaken Bharat by applying the tactics of the Fifth Generation Warfare, so to widen the faultlines and create social unrest which will eventually led to the balkanisation of Bharat and thus weakening of the Asian Tiger . Most interestingly, these Khalistani terrorists never demanded the separation of the Punjab province of the Pakistan, rather they have always demanded the balkanisation of Bharat’s Punjab province and these Khalistani terrorists have never spoke a single word against the atrocities being perpetrated by radical elements of Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Sikh communities of those countries !
These forces have formed the tactical alliances to create havoc in the country . Bharat, with its civilisational legacy of diversity, plurality, private entrepreneurial spirit and knowledge economy is best suited to lead the world on a third way of development. But this is not in alliance with the self interests of these global forces so they are working with their full vigour to stop the yatra of Viksit Bharat which was the key of rising of Bharat .
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