Khalistan Calling newsletter dated July 24, 2002.

The following KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA,- Issue of July 24 to July 30, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 30. (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org <) It was also published in the third week of July, 2002, in the Vancouver-based PUNJAB 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. Last week's Khalistan Calling can be viewed on the Khalistan Affairs Centre web site on the internet at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07172002.htm <) The Overseas Sikhs, unlike their 20 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 Karay Ga Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to carve 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.

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Washingon DC: July 24, 2002: "No monsoon, but Bhakra dam is overflowing," says a Times of India(> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=16300283 <) headline of a Chandigarh-datelined July 17 report by one, Surinder Awasthi, narrow-cast in the newspaper's Chandigarh 'cities' section. It is a classic example of typical Brahmin dezinformatsiya overkill which assumes that we disunited Sikhs are incapable of seeing through any Machiavellian game like the current man-made water famine in the Sikh Homeland of Punjab. Some arrogance!

Another New Delhi datelined report today (July 23, 2002) in the prestigious English language Indian newspaper The Hindu, published from Madras (> http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2002/07/23/stories/2002072301891200.htm <) headlined, "No prospect of monsoon on foothills of Himalayas", puts a damper on any hope of relief from the man-made water famine in the Punjab. The Himalayan foothills are where the catchment areas of Bhakra Nangal (Sutlej river), Pong (Beas river) and Ranjit Sagar (Ravi river) dams are located.

According to another July 18, 2002, Patiala datelined, report by one Gur Kirpal Singh Ashk, headlined, "Low water level in Ranjit Sagar worries PSEB", also carried by the Times News Network in the Times of India of July 19, 2002, says, and we quote verbatim, "Due to no rain in upper catchment areas of river Ravi, the decreasing inflow of water into the Ranjit Sagar Dam is causing worries to the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) authorities. However according to the design of the dam, minimum required water level is 487.68 meters but just a week ago when the water level had gone down to 489.25 meters, the dam authorities had started opposing the release of more water due to which the generation of power was badly effected. At present the water level in this dam is being maintained at 490.4 meters while last year (at this point in time) the water level had gone upto 501.4 meters - a drop of 11 feet over last year's figures. Last year the inflow into this dam was 11, 000 cusecs while this year it has come down to merely 6,000 to 7,000 cusecs - a drop of about 5, 000 cusecs."

Gur Kirpal Singh Ashk, in his July 18 Times of India report, goes on to say that, "The Pong dam (Beas river) is also facing a similar situation. The water level in this dam's reservoir has come down to 1,285.11 feet while last year (at the same point in time) the level was 1,316 feet. The inflow to this dam has come down from 68,000 cusecs to 8,300 cusecs only...(A drop of 59, 700 cusecs) Only Bhakra Dam (Sutlej river) is in better condition. Although the inflow of water to the Bhakra Nangal Dam is down to 41, 500 cusecs, as compared to 46, 000 cusecs in the previous year (at the same point in time) but water level is up in the lake then the level of last year. Today in this water-famine or droughty year the water level is at the mark of 1,591 feet while last year (at the same point in time when the monsoons were on time and had dumped rain water for three weeks in the catchment areas of the Sutlej) it was at 1,567 feet which was 24 feet lower."

So, for some strange reason in this droughty or water-famine year, when there is no Monsoon in sight, the huge Bhakra Nangal dam resevoir lake keeps increasing its water level by one foot a day and has thus INCREASED it's water level by 24 feet (yes 24 feet) over last year's level. A miracle perhaps, where the reservoir level goes up in a draughty year and drops during the Monsoons! As a comparison the water level in the reservoir behind the Pong dam (Beas river whose catchment area is adjacent to the Sutlej river's catchment area) has dropped by 11 feet as compared to last year. Interestingly, the water intake from the catchment areas of the Beas river into the Pong reservoir has dropped dramatically from 68, 000 cusecs (yes 68, 000) to a dribble today of 8,300 cusecs. One cusec is equal to one cubic foot of water per second. Where are the 59, 700 cusecs of water of the Beas River disappearing every second is a question which every Sikh must ask himself? Interestibly, the worst effected tubewells where water level has dropped dramatically, are located on both sides of the Beas river (Jullundur, Kapurthala, Kartarpur, Sri Har Govindpur, Qadian, Dusuya, Mukerian, Gurdaspur, Talwara, Hoshiarpur et. al.,) where the underground water level has in some cases dropped from twenty to a hundred meters causing great hardship and financial ruin to the Sikh farmers and urban people of that area?

It should be obvious to our readers that the disinformation carried in the Times of India report (> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=16300283 <) mentioned in paragraph one above has been planted to fool and lull the 'captive' people of the Sikh homeland of Punjab, an agricultural area, who are suffering water-famine conditions all over the state, in every district, because of the non-arrival of the summer monsoons, which were due on June 28, 2002. The people are today looking at decrease of power generation and shortage of water not only in the canals but in the tubewells as well while the non-riparian Hindu-majority states of Haryana and Rajasthan who have been stealing - without paying a penny - Punjab's river waters for decades are being publicly reassured, via the Times of India dezinformatsiya story by Surinder Awasthi that, and we quote verbatim, that "the Bhakra Nangal Management Board (BBMB) is able to fully meet (despite the water-famine) irrigation needs of its commandment area spread in the partner states of Haryana and Rajasthan and that power generation (in this draught year) has shown an increase of over 30% since April 2002 at Bhakra Nangal." End quote.

Incidently, a similar plan to starve our Punjabi Muslim brothers, (the people of Pakistani Punjab) of Chenab river water at critical times (a la the current man-made water famine in Sikh Punjab) is being secretly implemented in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir at this very moment in contravention of the international 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. There, the morally repugnant Brahmins are feverishly building the socalled 'run of the river' Baglihar hydroelectricty project on the river Chenab in Jammu without obtaining Pakistan's agreement, as laid down in the 1960 Indus Water Treaty. This project is an exact repeat of the Beas-Sutlej-link project which was built without Sikh Punjab's permission in Himachal Pradesh. In order to fight a common mortal enemy, who wants to destroy the Punjabi civilization, we suggest that the Sikh Punjab's leadership, youth and people coordinate with their counterparts in Pakistani Punjab who are being threatened by the Brahmin's water war as well. See Jan. 23, 2002, Khalistan Calling headlined, "India provoking war with Pakistan if it diverts the Chenab":> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc01232002.htm >

Nearly a year ago we alerted the Sikh leadership of Occupied Punjab in the September 05, 2001, Khalistan Calling headlined, "SYL Canal is a Poisened Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Sikh Punjab," from which we have culled the following presciently paragraph as it is very relevant (and today's water famine in Sikh Punjab has proved us right) describes then, what is happening today with the diverted Beas river which is disappearing into the Bhakra Nangal Dam lake on its way to Hindu-majority non-riparian states of Haryana and Rajasthan. > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc09052001.htm <

We wrote then, in the September 05, 2001, Khalistan Calling as follows:- "In half of Punjab (in the North and North West) water tables have been falling at such a fast rate because of tube wells and over-use that in a decade or two vast tracts of farmland will become desert if the ground water is not replenished. The underground water table in this region of Punjab (Hoshiarpur-Jalandhar-Kapurthala triangle) can be raised if replenished with water from the River Beas. The crafty anti/Sikh Brahmin rulers in Delhi are trying to pre-empt that possibility with a Beas-Sutluj Link project in Himachal Pradesh (financed by the central government) which diverts the water of River Beas into the Bhakra Nangal dam by means of two huge 25 Kilometers long tunnels and some canals. These tunnels carry Beas river water from the rock fill dam at Pandoh, located East of Mandi in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, to a reservoir near Sundernagar and on to the Govind Sagar Lake formed by the Bhakra Nangal dam. This Machiavellian project when completed will dry up the Beas river, to a trickle, which will cause the underground water tables around it to fall rapidly - because of very little replenishment - as a result of which in less then ten years, impartial engineers estimate, the fertile farmland area in its (river Beas) vicinity will become a desert as thousands of tube wells will go dry or sink out of reach. The present situation in the Punjab is that out of about 105 lac acres of cultivable area in the Punjab 55 lac acres are irrigated by tubewells and 37 lac acres are irrigated by canals. Where is the water going to come from to replenish Punjab's underground aquaducts? It will come if and when a noble leader takes over and decides to do something about the underground water level?" End Quote.

We therefore respectfully appeal to Sikh leaders, like Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann, to take a lesson from what is happening today. We urge him to take the lead and give a clarian call for Sikh unity and muster the people and Punjabi leadership - including his wayward brother-in-law Punjab Chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh, Badal and Tohra et. al., - to meet and defeat the Brahmin's Machiavellion challenge to the Sikh civilization, holy places and wonderful people and resolve that; "Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, not a drop of Punjab rivers water will flow in the socalled Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal (SYL) or in the illegal Beas-Sutlej link canals and tunnels, built in Himachal Pradesh (secretly and illegally without permission of lower riparian Sikh Punjab) by India's Swastika-worshipping Brahmin caste-dominated fundamentalist rulers, in their war of annihilation against the muscular Punjabi Sikh minority. Period!"

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