Khalistan Calling newsletter dated July 31, 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 31 to August 06, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 31. (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org <) It was also published in the first week of August, 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: (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07242002.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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Washington DC: July 31, 2002: The increasing prevalence of water-famine conditions in many parts of Indian occupied Punjab (one of the most irrigated areas in the world, served by criss crossing canals, thousands of tubewells and three huge river dams - Thien or Ranjit Sagar dam on the Ravi, Pong dam on the Beas and BhakraNangal dam on the Sutlej river) within a few days of the delay in the Summer Monsoons - which were due on June 30 - is a clear indication of a 'water war', nay pogrom, being waged by the Hindu-fundamentalist BJP rulers, on an agricultural Sikh majority state (Punjab). A state and its hardy people who were tricked into the Indian "Union's" map by Gandhi/Patel/Nehru & Co., on August 15, 1947, when an exhausted Imperial Britain handed over the instruments of state power to a Brahmin-caste dominated coterie of rascals, when it quit South Asia in haste, after World War II.

Today's Khalistan Calling, a follow up of last week's July 24 newsletter (headlined, "WATER FAMINE - No monsoon rains, but Bhakra dam is overflowing,") is a tale of two major glacier-fed rivers of South Asia - the INDUS and the SUTLEJ. Both rivers rise from the same area - within 100 miles of each other - in Tibet, China, in fact they have a common 'mother glacier' near Pt. 21, 360 also called Kaerrh Tsangpo in Chinese. (See: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07242002.htm <) The Sutlej river which originates from the Southern slopes of the Tibetan glacier, heads due West towards Sikh Punjab and falls into the Bhakra Nangal dam, from where it flows South-Westward to join the mighty Indus near Uch and Punjnad 100 miles North-West of Bahawalpur in Pakistan.

It is obvious that the July 24, 2002, Khalistan Calling, in which we ridiculed India's leading English language newspaper, The Times of India, which carried a report, really disinformation, by Surinder Awasthi, headlied, "No monsoon rains, but Bhakra dam is overflowing," has forced a reaction - as one deceit always needs many others - from the Indian propagandists - all inept Swastika-worshipping students of the German Nazi propagandist Dr. Joseph Goebells (1897-1945). > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=16300283 < No coincidence this: a reporter, one Sonu Jain, has suddenly popped up on the media scene (from the ranks of some Indian intelligence agency probably) and arranged a front page placing for the broadcast of his New Delhi-datelined dezinformatsiya, headlined, "Bhakra's overflowing - hold the celebrations: glacier in trouble," in the July 27, 2002, Indian Express. In an attempt to fool us Sikhs, Sonu Jain writes, "Another paradox from this year's failed Monsoon: the Bhakra dam is gushing with more water than is normal, but that's actually bad news."> http://www.indian-express.com/print.php?content_id=6667 < Indeed!

In marked contrast, the DAILY TIMES, a Pakistani Lahore-based English language daily newspaper, reported yesterday (July 29, 2002) in an Islamabad datelined story, by Khalid Mustafa, headlined, "IRSA asks Punjab to cease Indus withdrawals." The report says that, the country's Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has asked Pakistani Punjab to halt water withdrawals from the glacier-fed Indus river's Tarbela dam so that, "the Tarbela dam reservoir could be filled up by Aug. 20 since the inflows into the Tarbela is less than expected and the water level this year is less than the corresponding period last year."> http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-7-2002_pg7_3 <

The crafty Brahmin's game is obvious to us! It should be obvious to the slumbering Sikh Punjab's, and Pakistani Punjab's, leadership as well. Sikh leadership ought to unite and warn the morally repugnant, Swastika-worshipping BJP rulers in Delhi that they are not fooling any Sikh by their dezinformatsiya. We Sikhs know as to how the socalled glacier-fed (one glacier) Sutlej river has 'filled' the Bhakra Dam reservoir, during a drought without any monsoon rains, and how the Sutlej is about to overflow its banks near Anandpur Sahib below the dam? We Sikhs have compared the performance of the Sutlej with its glacier-fed 'brother' river Indus which rises from the same area in Tibet, China, and has not been able to, despite receiving snow-melt from umpteen glaciers, fill the Tarbela dam in Pakistan because of the delayed monsoons. Also one look at the state of water level in the Pong dam on the River Beas, which is near the dead level at this point in time (as the intake figures have dropped to 8,000 cusecs from nearly 60, 000 cusecs last year), will tell any observor - even a layman - that Bhakra dam reservoir has been stealethly filled up by syphoning the Beas river's inflow, into the Sutlej before it reaches the Pong dam, via the Pandoh hydro-electric project's tunels in Himachel Pradesh. A tactic New Delhi wants to repeat on the Chenab river before it enters Pakistan with help from the socalled Baglihar hydroelectric project tunnels now under construction in Indian occupied Jummu. The syphoning of water into the Sutlej has been deliberatly done to ensure water for the Hindu-majority non-riparian Haryana and Rajasthan states who recieve water free of charge from the Sutlej river via numerous canals, including one named after that wretched Punditani, Indira Gandhi.

The tubewells of the Sikh farmers along the Beas river, (Jullundur, Kapurthala, Kartarpur, Sri Har Govindpur, Qadian, Dusuya, Mukerian, Gurdaspur, Talwara, Hoshiarpur et. al.,) which is not getting much water from the Ravi-Beas Link canal or the Pong dam, have gone dry as a consequence. These Sikh , farmers, desperate to save their crops, are being exploited by the greedy Hindu banias - leachers all - as they have to find money to bore additional deeper tubewells to tap into the falling ground water level, in order to survive. A Brahmin-style state-sponsored water-pogrom which targets the Sikhs is unfolding before our very eyes.

This latest act of state-sponsored terrorism, nay water-pogrom, nay man-made water-famine in the captive Sikh homeland should open the eyes of every Sikh and convince everyone - including the present leadership that salvation for the Sikh civilization - its holy shrines and its people - lies in an independent, sovereign, democratic, buffer state of Khalistan stretching from the Jumna river on the East to the Pakistan border on the West, to Kashmir in the North and China on the North East.

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