Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - Christmas, and end of the year, is supposed to be a season of friendship, generosity and forgiveness. But, it seems there is no such reprieve for the beleaguered Indian Sikhs (captive in the Indian map since August 1947) from the conspiracies brewing, in the evil minds of of the Brahmin-caste-dominated Indian rulers in New Delhi, all of them ardent students of Pandit Chanakya's Arthashastra - an ancient guide to statecraft - which calls for state-terrorism to achieve unity within the state and for dominance over neighboring countries.
This Hindu 'holy book', Arthashastra, (4th century B.C.) mentioned above, an ancient guide to statecraft which advocates state terrorism and encourages, the ruthless use of terror, among other vile activities, like fraud, treachery, torture, forgeries, rumourmongering, extensive espionage, use of agents provocateurs and poison etc., etc. An excellent, and more detailed, description of this 'holy book of Hindu Wisdom' - Arthashastra - has been given by Ms. Barbara Crossette, (who was the New York Times correspondent in India from 1984 to 1991 and Professor of Journalism from 1980-81 in the Punjab University at Chandigarh) on page 102 of her 1993 excellent book India Facing the twenty-first Century, published by the Indiana University Press - ISBN0-253-31577-8.
Now consider, that just two weeks ago (on December 09, 2005) the minions of the Indian state were saying that Sikh Punjab is at peace, and has NOT been a disturbed area since 1997, and everything was hunky-dori in the Indian-occupied Sikh Homeland. See report in the Dec 10 Tribune newspaper. (
www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051210/punjab1.htm#2) This Tribune report is typical of the morally repugnant double-faced rulers of India. On December 09, 2005, senior officers of Indian-occupied Punjab government, all of a sudden, out of the blue, told the Tribune newspaper correspondent, Sarabjit Dhaliwal, in Chandigarh, that, 'Punjab has NOT been a disturbed area since 1997.' The officials were reported, by the Tribune correspondent, to have explained that, NO notification had been issued after October, 1997, to declare Punjab a disturbed area under the Disturbed Area Act, and as such it is not a Disturbed Area.
The above Tribune report had gone on to say that, "Punjab Principal Secretary (Home), Mr. A.K. Dubey, and the Punjab Police chief, Mr S. S. Virk, had checked the records pertaining to the enforcement of the Act and they had found that no notification was issued in the state after October, 1997, to enforce the provisions of the Act. The senior officers further told the Tribune that a notification had to be issued to enforce the Act for a specific period and to extend it further, if required, and that all the controversy created in the media regarding the disturbed area was without any basis and rationale. "In our eyes, all this controversy is meaningless and without any substance," the officers are reported to have reassured the Tribune correspondent with a straight face.
It has now been revealed that at about the same time in December, according to a report by the London correspondent of Hindustan Times, Vijay Dutt, (
www.hindustantimes.com/news/59831581517,00430005.htm) the European Union (current EU President, UK) has, on December 12, 2005, at the request of India's double-faced rulers, "put a Sikh militant group Khalistan Zindabad Force in its list of terrorist organisations. The announcement was made almost immediately after a EU-India (December 12, 2005) meeting on counter terrorism in Brussels. Hamid Ali Rao and the deputy director general of the Indian Narcotics Bureau, Rajiv Walia, headed the inter-ministerial Indian delegation. They had a meeting pn that day with EU Troika - Britain, France & Germany - headed by the EU counter terrorism coordinator, Gijs De Vries."
The above Hindustan Times report, by its London correspondent, Vijat Dutt, (
www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_1581517,00430005.htm) a RAW operative actually, was hidden away in a remote corner of the December 24, 2005, UK edition of the newspaper in the least-visited Asian diaspora section. One wonders why? The report, which has the fingerprints of Indian Intelligence 'Hawaldars' all over it, goes on to add that, "According to the EU decision, all the 25 EU member states must freeze assets of the groups or persons on the terror list. According to the Hindudtsn Times, Khalistan Zindabad Force 'is a Sikh militant outfit that advocates 'the creation of an independent Sikh majority state called Khalistan by achieving the independence of the Punjab state in India and adjoining Punjabi-speaking areas of neighbouring Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan via an armed struggle. Ranjit Singh Neeta who is among India's 20 most wanted persons, and is believed to be currently hiding out in Lahore, Pakistan) heads the group, noted Wikipedia." End quote.
The timing of this delayed effort at demonizing the Sikhs in general and socalled Khalistan Zindabad Force in particular, at this point in time, (twenty one years after the Indian Army attack on the holiest Sikh shrine of Darbar Sahib - Golden Temple - in June 1984, which angered the Sikhs and spawned numerous Sikh militant groups) is very suspicious. More than that, the mention of Lahore, (in Pakistan) and Jummu, (in disputed Kashmir) in the same breath, in the same Hindustan Times report, are very suspicious - a Freudian slip - and are coincidences which cannot be ignored. They are cause for great concern as the record and modus operandi of the Indian rulers in the past is well known on this score. They have a history of arranging acts of state-sponsored terror which they synchronize with other events for great political effect.
The readers may recall the state-organized Chitthisinghpura massacre of innocent Sikhs in Indian-occupied Kashmir, in March 2000, when uniformed Indian intelligence agents synchronized that horrible act of state-terrorism (an Al Capone type massacre) with the state visit of US president Bill Clinton to India who was horrified. The phony attack in December 2001 on the Indian parliament was another such act of Indian state-sponsored terror, as was the February 2002 Godhra train incident, which triggered the pre-planned state-supervised pogrom in which 2, 000 innocent men, women and children of the Muslim minority in Gujarat were murdered. All these events were meant to glean political advantage. The attack on the ruins of the Babri mosque last year was yet another similar state-sponsored terrorist act staged in front of TV cameras.
The 60, 000 dollars question therefore, crops up, as to why did the Indian rulers wait so long as they could have declared Khalistan Zindabad Force a terrorist organization decades ago? Why this sudden flurry of activity? Why are they overdoing it now at this point in time? Pehaps the century old Dudley Warner truism applies here that, 'People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception'.
The question everybody (including the naive officials of the EU) should therefore ask, as to why the Sikhs are being demonized at this point in time when an Indian Cricket team is about to start a two month long tour of Pakistan on January 07, 2006, and thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India have started visiting their many holy shrines located in Pakistan after over fifty years? Many Sikhs are also planning to visit Pakistan to watch the Indo/Pak Cricket matches in January and February 2006.
The answer starts ringing in the ear that the two reports (from the Tribune and Hindustan Times we have mentioned above) are smoke signals that something very evil, very Chanakiyan, is cooking in the 'dirty tricks' caldron, the minions of the Indian state are brewing in British-built New Delhi in India. Every Sikh visiting Pakistan in 2006 ought to watch out.
