Khalistan Calling
Weekly column by Dr. Amarjit Singh, published in Chardhi Kala newspaper. Addresses the significant events of the past week and their affect on the Sikh Nation. Updated every Wednesday.
Lahore-based NATION newspaper cracks the current Indian embargo on any Khalistani news with a report about Sikh diaspora plans of organizing world--wide advocacy protests urging countries like Canada to boycott the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi in which city 10, 000 Sikhs were murdered in the November 1984 state-sponsored pogrom
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Our website (www.khalistan-affairs.org) has been hacked by the Indian intelligence following publication of a report in Lahore-based NATION newspaper about plans of the diaspora Sikhs to boycott the October 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi!...more
At the New York 21st Vaisakhi Sikh Day parade on April 26 Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti, boldly endorsed the right of self-determination of Sikhs for a democratic South Asian buffer state of Khalistan -
On a bright and sunny Saturday, on April 26, 2008, down-town New Yorkers saw the colorful 21st Vaisakhi Sikh Day Parade, marching down Broadway, in Manhatten. The parade culminated in New York’s Madison Avenue Park, where distinguished invitee, Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti, in his speech to the enthusiastic crowd, boldly endorsed the Sikh right of self-determination to seek a democratic water/food-rich buffer state of Khalistan in South Asia. A Sikh state destined to act as a bridge of peace and commerce between South and Central Asia. The patriotic call of Jathedar Vedanti was endorsed with repeated loud cheers of ‘Long Live Khalistan’ (Khalistan Zindabad) by the over 30,0000 Sikhs who had gathered in New York’s Madison Avenue Park. ...more
Punjab farmer MUST be FREE to sell his wheat and rice at world market rates which are currently running at double the government’s Minimum Support Price -
In a Leader (Editorial) headlined, “The silent tsunami – Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed,” the Economist, London, (to its eternal credit) has given a wakeup call to the world in general and Indian occupied Punjab, the Sikh Homeland, in particular, where the government continues to play games, (really cheating the farmers) under cover of the so-called Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat of Rs. 1, 000 when world price is nearly double that figure and rising. ...more
Musings on the April 10 election ‘shock’ in Nepal -
The unexpected victory for the Maoists (Communist Party of Nepal) in the April 10 elections in Nepal is going to be a nightmare for India, writes the Economist London. How true!...more