The three million strong diaspora Sikhs, unlike their 21 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it every day; "Raj Karayga Khalsa; (Sikhs will rule) Aaaqi Rahaya nah Koyay: Khawar hoiyey Sab Milaingay; Bachay Sharan Joh Hoyay; DILLI Takht Par Bahay Gee; Aap Guru Kee Fauj; Chattar Chulayn gay Sis Par; Barri Karaygee Mauj." - to create a sovereign, democratic, egalitarian Sikh buffer state of KHALISTAN in South Asia, stretching from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West, China on the Northeast and Kashmir on the North, playing its God-given role of a granary for countries of Central Asia and acting as a 'bridge of prosperity' and commerce between Central and South Asia.

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Washington DC: July 16, 2003: The central message from the UN's 2003 Human Development Report, (an annual 'yardstick' and a comparison of human progress in various countries of the world - from the richest to the poorest) which was released last week, is that, Indian officials seem to have 'done a number' on the United Nations Development Programme. They have submitted doctored figures which exaggerate India's performance, (GDP - PPP - figures for example) and as a result, may have stopped India's downwards slide in the HDI (Human-development-index) ranking but these shenanigans may have, in our opinion, tarnished that excellent UN's Human Development report's integrity and reputation. More on this hanky-panky at the end of this column in our appeal to Mr. Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nation's Development Program (UNDP).

The annual UN's Human Development Report is of special interest to the persecuted monotheistic minorities - Christians, Sikhs and Muslims - captive in polytheistic India currently misruled by the Hindutva-fundamentalist, Neo-Nazi BJP coalition. These monotheistic minorities were abandoned to their fate when an exhausted Imperial Britain retreated, in August of 1947, from its South Asian colony in haste, after World War II. These monotheistic communities in India have since then lived in fear and are at the mercy of polytheistical, and inherently fascist and crafty, Brahmin-caste-dominated majority which took over the instruments of state power, both democratic and coercive, from the retreating British in August of 1947. As a backgrounder please also see Khalistan Calling dated August 14, 2002, at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc08142002.htm < and Khalistan Calling dated July 04, 2000, headlined "UN's Human Development Report-2000 released" at:> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc07042000.htm < and Khalistan Calling dated July 17, 1999 headlined, "World's sixth Nuclear Power Ranks 132nd in UN's Human Development Report -1999", at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/KC071499.html <

The world's largest 'Democracy' - India - whose ambitious Hindutva rulers want it to occupy a permanent seat in the UN's Security Council before even Japan, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Brazil and Mexico (and whose 'all-powerful' socio-economic Caste system follows a basic precept that, "All men are created UNEQUAL"- click at the National Geographic site at: < <http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/feature1/index.html > >) is stuck at No. 127 in HDI ranking just below such wonderful countries as Morocco (126th), Botswana (125th), Namibia (124th), Sao Tome & Principe (122nd), Nicaragua (121st), Guatemala (119th), Gabon (118th), Momngolia (117th) Equatorial-Guinea (116th), Honduras (115th), Bolivia (114th) and Tajikistan at 113th. India's Hindutva-fundamentalist BJP rulers can take pride that India at 127th HDI ranking is a shade above Vanuato (128th), Ghana (129th), Cambodia (130th), Myanmar (131st), Papua New Guinea (132nd), Swaziland (133rd), Bhutan (136th), Bangladesh (139th), Nepal (143rd), Pakistan (144th), Kenya (146th) and Yemen (148th).

WE urge the Administrator of the United Nation's Development Program (UNDP) Mr. Mark Malloch Brown and Human Development Report-2003 Director, Sakiko Fukuda Parr, to investigate how India with a GDP per capita annual growth rate of 4% could increase its GDP per capita PPP for the year 2001 to $. 2, 840 from $. 2, 358 in the year 2000 an increase of $. 482 one of the highest - out of proportion - increases among 173 countries ranked in the HDI? China, with a 8.8% GDP per capita annual growth rate, increased its GDP per capita PPP for the year 2001 to $. 4, 020 from $. 3, 976 in 2000 - an increase of only $. 44. Interestingly the Indian protectorate of Bhutan, with a 3.5% GDP per capita annual growth rate increased its GDP per capita PPP for the year 2001 to $. 1, 833 from $. 1, 412 in 2000 - an increase of $. 420. Bangladesh with a 3.1% GDP per capita annual growth rate increased its GDP per capita PPP for the year 2001 to $. 1, 610 from $. 1, 602 in 2000 - an increase of only $. 8. Interestingly India's GDP for the year 2001 was US $. 477 billions an increase of about US $. 20 billion from the figure for the year 2000 which was US $. 457 billion. In comparison China's GDP for the year 2001 was US $. 1,159 an increase of US $. 79 from the GDP figures for the year 2,000 which was 1, 080 Billion. All figures in this paragraph, for the year 2001, were culled from page 280 - chart 12, Economic Performance - from the UN's Human Development Report 2003. Figures for the year 2000 taken from page 192 - chart 12, Economic Performance - from the UN's Human Development Report 2002.

This horrible situation in the world's largest Castocracy - India - visible in the UNDP report will continue to persist and India will never, not even in a hundred years, be able to shed the squalor, the misery and the lack of hope that is India unless liberal infusion of social investment takes place, and that will never happen, as long as the medieval Hindu caste system, and its morally repugnant Hindutva-fundamentalist champions, continue to misrule the roost in Delhi.

The only way Indian Occupied Sikh Punjab can prosper, reduce its unemployment, recapture its life-giving river waters, export its surplus foodgrains to the 'Stans' of Central Asia and improve the lot of its Sikh majority, their children and their children, is by saying "Good Bye" - "Sayonara" - to the squalor that is India by creating a democratic, egalitarian buffer state of Khalistan, West of the Jumna river, East of the Pakistan border, South of Kashmir and South West of Tibet China.

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The above newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA, - Issue of July 16-22, 2003 :: Vol. 19 : No. 30. Last week's Khalistan Calling is available on the Khalistan Affairs Centre website at: (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc07092003.htm <) The Khalistan Calling newsletter was also published in the third week of July 2003, in the Vancouver-based PUNJAB GUARDIAN, and AKAL GUARDIAN, Toronto-based SANJH SAVERA, Calgary-based SIKH VIRSA and numerous other Punjabi/English weekly and monthly publications which cater to the three million strong Sikh diaspora in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

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