We Don't Believe That The Western States Didn't Know, 21 Million Sikh Knew, Why Didn't They?
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 13, 1998 - India’s May 11/13 Daylight Nuclear Bang at the Pokhran site in the backyards of the two Punjab’s takes "AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE BY SURPRISE"--says Washington Times and other US media. Now contaminated with nuclear fall out the 100 million Punjabis do not want to believe the Washington fable. WE CAN’T!The muscular Punjabis whose homeland have been contaminated by the Nuclear fallout from the five crude devices(no thermo-nuclear device was tested, press reports not withstanding) detonated by the Indian scientists on May 11 and 13, at Pokharan in the Rajasthan State of India, are shocked by the callousness, and lack of concern, of the leadership of the civilized world for not to condemning the deliberate environmental damage caused by the test to the Indian Occupied Punjab(and Pakistani Punjab) where over one hundred million Punjabis, innocent victims of Indian nuclear chauvinism, now live under a "nuclear cloud". Not a word of concern was spoken or sympathy offered, for the plight of the Punjabi victims by the leaders of the world playing 19th century power games, in the world of 1998, over who signs, and who does not sign, the CTBT(Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) and other pieces of paper.
It may be recalled that last week in this column-Khalistan calling- (published in the English language sections of CHARDI KALA and Punjab Guardian Weeklies- of Surrey, BC Canada-issues of May 7th 1998 and other ethnic newspapers) we did a "broadcast" to the world onto India’s secret that Delhi was about to test a nuclear device at Pokharan, a site located in Punjab’s backyard. How can anyone now claim that the tests came as a surprise? Some surprise!
Our information, based on Indian nocturnal activities near Pokhran, was published on May 7 1998, about the impending nuclear test. It turned out to be correct, as we knew it would! On Monday afternoon, May 11, a Pakistani seismic station at Nihlore, near Islamabad, was the first to record shock waves from the nuclear test ordered by the Hindu Fundamentalist BJP Government of India at the Pokharan site. The tests were held in broad daylight.
Incidentally the test site is a former Artillery range and is located only 63(yes 63) miles from the border of the Pakistani Punjab and is quite close to the Sikh’s Punjab. By selecting the Pokharan test site (where May winds blow in a Northerly direction towards the two Punjab’s) for a nuclear bang, in the backyard of the Punjab’s in preference to an uninhabited Indian owned island in the Nicobar group of islands in the middle of the vast Bay of Bengal, comfortably located 2,000 miles away, the Swastika worshipping Hindu fundamentalist BJP government sent a "message" to the Punjabis --Sikh and Pakistani alike, and gave a preview of the direction of their fascist thinking.
We hope that the morally repugnant BJP Fundamentalists in Delhi don’t make the mistake of understanding us Punjabis, we are not easily intimidated as we know how to survive in a Nuclear - armed neighborhood having God-given abilities in that department too, to take care of ourselves and our enemies!
On Tuesday, May 12,98 the Washington Times carried a story by its star reporter, Bill Getz that; "US intelligence agencies failed to detect any signs that India was preparing for the underground nuclear weapons blasts carried out yesterday and were embarrassed by New Delhi’s successful efforts to hide the tests". Similar stories were carried by other US newspapers. It may be worthwhile to point out that the primary means for detecting preparations for nuclear tests by any country is through Humanint (Human Intelligence), media surveillance etc., relying on overhead satellites as testing normally is preceded by increased vehicle, personnel and other activities at sites.
It is rather difficult to believe that numerous satellites did not spot the activities noticed by our sources near Pokharan, which were reported in this column on May 7, 98, nor did the world’s intelligence agencies "read" the Indian media or watch the body language of the BJP fundamentalist Brahmins strutting in Delhi. Are we witnessing, what we call in Punjabi, Nura Kushti. It is also rather difficult to believe that the British government, which has the best (200 years old) Humanint in South Asia, were not aware of these incidences. The British must have known and may have given a "wink and nod" to Delhi- they are not known as "a nation of shopkeepers" for nothing. Unconfirmed reports, at time of writing seem to be confirming our doubts, and they state that London, unlike the United States which imposed sanctions today, after sending a wrong signal by waiting for two days (under the 1994; Sanctions for nuclear detonations -- Section 826-a), may not even impose sanctions against India for testing the five nuclear devices. If true it will make it obvious that the British have played their traditional role!
It is also becoming obvious, with each passing day, that Pakistan is showing its wisdom by not testing, its already tested, nuclear device and letting that world anger focus on India, but it is also exhibiting it lack of political will by not firing another Ghauri missile to deflate the jingoism in India. If it waits too long to send to send a second "message" on top of a Ghauri missile its economic mess may not allow it to flex its missile muscles or exercise it nuclear option in face of world pressure which is mounting by the minute. Our Pakistan neighbors-we wish then well-may end up, if they are not smart and stand united, without a nuclear test, without a moral-boosting Ghauri missile display and with 28 obsolete F-16A fighter planes, nay junk, for which they paid 658 million dollars eight years ago. As far as the Sikhs are concerned we hope that the Quisling Indian Occupied Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, for once shows some courage, and condemns the five nuclear tests in Punjab’s backyard and opens up Punjab state to international observers who can come and report on the state of nuclear contamination in our homeland where the majority of our older generation lives. How about it Mr. Badal, can’t you even do this?