Letter To PV RAO of the alleged Indian democracy.

Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon's Letter To

PV RAO of the alleged Indian democracy.

Subject: AIR INDIA Dlight 182 (Toronto-Montreal-London-D

elhi/BOMBAY) DESTRUCTION OFF THE EAST COAST OF IRELAND (Cork) on 23rd June, 1985. 

Mr P. V. Narsimhanrao                       

17th June, 1993

Chairman

Council of Ministers

Government of India

New Delhi, India

Mr Narsimhanrao,

RE: AIR INDIA FLIGHT 182 - 22nd JUNE, 1985

Once again, the time has come when your morally and ethically devoid foreign diplomatic machinery, and alleged ambassadors of India and your administration, will be stepping up their hate compaign against the Sikhs under the disguise of the 8th anniversary of the illfated Air India flight 182 that took off from the pious land of Canada. Although the politically dominated Indian judiciary system has been serving its New Delhi masters well, delivering the judgement in New Delhi’s favour by holding the Sikhs responsible for AI 182, no other court has yet concluded that the Sikhs have been responsible for the mishap that happened off the coast of Ireland. You, as home minister in mid 1980s, along with the Indian administration, have been engaged in using your propaganda machinery (news papers, Indian television or doordarshan, sending cultural and sports teams and journalists like Jagjit Singh Anand abroad, academics who speaks the language of brahmins, or high class bigots, slander Sikh gurus and their teachings) to slander, persecute, terrorize and torture the Sikhs since “Operation Blue Star” of June, 1984. However, Indian administrations including your own, have shed no light on the state run airline system. In foreign newsmedia, Indian Airlines flights are aptly referred to as “flying coffins”, especially when one considers what has happened during the airline’s operation in the first six months of 1993. I was wondering if you or your board of enquiries have as yet decided which group you wish to link these unfortunate events with, the Sikhs or Muslims?

I am particularly interested to know, assuming you would care to answer this letter, whether the incident that took place in the late 1970s at the Bombay airport for a scheduled Air India flight to a middle east country, in which then prime minister Indira Gandhi was travelling, was also caused by the Sikhs or by some disgruntled Air India employee(s). According to the findings of a one man commission, conducted by a judge of Maharashtra High Court, the first aircraft (upon which boarding had taken place and Indira Gandhi and her entourage were on board) did not start despite an Air India maintenance crew’s 3 hours struggle to fix the problem. After this struggle, a second aircraft was towed in, passengers, baggage and cargo was reloaded, but the second aircraft did not start. A third aircraft was brought in and the scheduled flight took off to its destination after the delay of several hours. The findings, as I recall, of the commission were that in the first craft electrical wires were found cut and the second aircraft had more water the aviation fuel. Did the enquiry commission conclude that the Sikhs were responsible, under Indian norms, for the electrical wires and high water ratio in the aviation fuel, or did some disgruntled maintenace employee(s) want to play with the lives of innocent but non-political passengers or was it because Indira (a corrupt, morally and etically bankrupt person) happened to be one of the politicians on board, who had no regard for the Indian masses.

Since the late 1970s and partucularly since June 1984, what argument or explaination can you advance for the Air India 182 diaster not being a creation of the Rajiv Gandhi, his administration (of which you were a member) and Indian Research and Analysis Wing, the latter which is beleived to be responsible to only the prime minister. Indicators clearly point out that it was done to slander the Sikhs, destroy their intergity in the eyes of their fellow countrymen, and make them a criminal tribe as done before by bigots like Nehru, Patel, Trivedi, Govalkar, Pant, Charan Singh, V. P. Sinh, Chandrashekhar, and Balram Jhakhar, who said that “to preserve the unity of India, if we have to eradicate 2-kror or 20 millions Sikhs, we will do so”, according to Sardar Amarjit Singh Khalsa, Spokesperson, Panthic Committee. Such defamation is aided by the Sikh quislings Pratap Singh Kairon, Giani Kartar Singh, Kuldip Brar, K. P. Gill, Beant Sinh, Surjit Barnala, Harchand Singh Longowal, Darshan Singh Ragi, Umrao Singh, Rajinder Singh Sparrow (Grewal), Zail Sinh, Giani Kirpal Singh, K. P. Gill, Inspector-General (Prisons) Katoch, Khushwant Singh, Patwant Singh, Jagjit Singh Arora (who justified the Operation Black Thunder) and many non-Sikhs like J. F. Reibero, Gen. Vaidhya, H. K. L. Bhagat, and army officer Ishar Khan, to name a few.

Yours,

Awatar Singh Sekhon, Ph. D., FIBA, RM (CCM)

P S: No reply has been received to-date.

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Posted by

Parmjit Singh Sekhon (Dakha)

Advisor – Council of Khalistan

Member - Punjabi Sahit Sabha

President – Dal Khalsa Alliance

Member – Bhai Ghanaiya Society

President – International Sikh Sabhiachar Society

510-774-5909

president@dalkhalsaalliance.org

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL:

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL:

Fasts Against Corruption Show Disgust of Indians

June 27 , 2011

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL

Fasts Against Corruption Show Disgust of Indians

Sikhs Are Slaves Under Indian Rule

Freedom Lies in the Heart of the Sikh Nation

Dear Chief Minister Badal:

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!

The corruption in India is starting to boil over.  Activist Anna Hazare, yoga guru Baba Ramdev, and their followers were forcibly removed from the Gandhi cremation site after “hundreds of people” gathered in Delhi to hear Hazare condemn the police crackdown against Baba Ramdev, who continues his fast in his home town of Haridwar, according to the BBC.  Mr. Hazare also held a fast against corruption in April.  Baba Ramdev is demanding the return of bribe money held overseas.

Honest people have joined hands to speak out about corruption.  The people of India are fed up with the corruption, bribery, and the accumulation of dirty money by the ruling class.  Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were recently seen in Switzerland taking care of their secret Swiss bank account where they keep their black money.

What a shame for the Gandhi family and the Congress Party, who claim to be the representatives of the people.  While 80 to 90 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, the Gandhis have billions of dollars stashed away in accounts outside India.  They should bring that money back to India to invest in development, education, health, and other needs of the Indian people.  That would be the right and wise thing to do.

It is a shame that the leadership of the Akali Dal, you and the Badal family, fall into the same category.  You have also accumulated large amounts of black money through corruption.  It is also stashed away in other countries, like the money of the Gandhis.  Your son Sukhbir recently opened a massive hotel of over 1,000 rooms in Gurgaon (Haryana), a suburb of Delhi, worth thousands of crores of rupees.  He didn't even open the hotel in Punjab and create jobs in Punjab.  Where did the money come from?  The obvious answer is corruption.

It was well known that your late wife, Surinder Kaur, could tell just how much money was in a bag just by lifting it. This is how deeply the corruption is rooted.  That money was collected selling jobs to the people of Punjab.  Even driver jobs were sold for black money.  The whole government machinery was so corrupt they had a name for bribery.  It was called “fee for service.”  When the Chief Minister is corrupt, the government officials below tend to become corrupt also.

Mr. Badal, you are in your 80s.  You have serious health problems.  We wish you a long life, but like all human beings, you will eventually die.  All that money you have accumulated did not help your wife escape death.

It is time for you, Mr. Badal, to do your introspection.  You should do your job honestly and earn your living by an honest day's work.  As leader of the Akali Dal, you must be aware of the Sikh code of conduct: Nam japna, kirat karni, wand shakna. (Pray in the morning; earn a living honestly with your own hands; share with the needy.)  You have betrayed this code.  You have accumulated very large amounts of money by corruption and bribes.  That money will not go with you.  It will remain here when you go.

There is nothing wrong with making large sums of money by honest means.  You have not done so by honest means.  My advice to you and your son Sukhbir is to listen, learn, and help the people of Punjab to come out of poverty by investing in industry, education, health, and their other needs so that people can prosper.

Mr. Badal, you are aware that Sikhs are very hard-working people who feed India.  According to the Tribune (Chandigarh), Sikhs provide about 50 percent of India's national wheat pool and 40 percent of the national rice pool, even though Punjab is only 1.3 percent of the area of India and Sikhs comprise only two percent of the population.  Yet Sikh farmers are heavily debt-ridden and are committing suicide at an alarming rate.  The people are under the control of the dishonest leaders because the leaders keep them poor by providing a subsistence level of food at a price of Rs3 per kilo.  They do not even get the cost of production for their produce.  Please use the resources of Punjab to rectify these conditions so that Punjab can be a prosperous state again, instead of storing huge amounts of money away out of the country for your personal use. Punjab is the land of the Gurus and the people who live there should not have to be hungry and deprived  of the basic necessities of life.  Sikh farmers must be free to sell their crops at fair prices on the world market.

Mr. Badal, I hope you will not take this as criticism, but as a wake-up call.  These are the sad facts about the situation in Punjab.

As a Sikh, you always recite “Raj Kare Ga Khalsa.”  Without political power, the Sikh Nation cannot progress and the Sikh religion cannot thrive.  As long as we remain under the slavery of India, it will continue its efforts to eradicate the Sikh religion.  In Punjab, there is no freedom.  As the late General Narinder Singh said, “Punjab is a police state.”  We need to free Khalistan, as declared by the Sikh Nation on October 7, 1987.

You have tested your power with the Indian government.  They refused to change the punishment of Professor Bhullar, who was sentenced to death, despite the combined efforts of your government, the opposition, the SGPC, and the international Sikh community.  The whole Sikh Nation cannot change the sentence of Professor Bhullar to life imprisonment.  Dara Singh and others, the murderers of two Christian missionaries from Australia, were not hanged.  When 20,000 Sikhs were murdered at the behest of the Indian government, no one was punished.  Yet Professor Bhullar was sentenced to death for killing one person who had a hand in the murders of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab.  It wasn't even a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court.  Yet the whole Sikh Nation acting in unison can't get this reduced.  This shows how India subjugates the Sikh Nation and people.  If you can't even get one man's sentence reduced, then what kind of power do you have?  If you want real power, you should support freedom for the Sikh Nation in a sovereign, independent Khalistan.

India is not one nation, but many nations thrown together under one rule for administrative convenience.   Such countries are doomed to fall apart, as Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia show.  America's Central Intelligence Agency reported that by 2015, it expects that India will disintegrate and become many countries.  The only solution for the Sikh Nation is an independent Khalistan.  We have seen the treatment of the Sikhs by the Indian regime for over 60 years.  At this point, it isn't going to change.  We have been discriminated against, tortured, murdered, and generally mistreated to wipe out the Sikh religion.  They even try to deny its existence by proclaiming Sikhism a branch of Hinduism.  The Hindu government of India wants minorities either subservient to Hinduism or completely wiped out.  In spite of the fact that the religions believe completely opposite things, Hindus desire to engulf Sikhism just as they did with Jainism and Buddhism in India.  As a Sikh leader, it is incumbent upon you to help free the people you lead from this oppression.  Always remember our heritage.  We must end the corruption and rededicate ourselves to the cause of freedom.  Without a free Khalistan, the Sikh Nation does not have any future.  Let us join hands to free Khalistan.  Khalistan Zindabad!

Panth Da Sewadar,

Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh

President

Council of Khalistan

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Issued by 

Parmjit Singh Sekhon (Dakha)

Advisor – Council of Khalistan

Member - Punjabi Sahit Sabha

President – Dal Khalsa Alliance

Member – Bhai Ghanaiya Society

President – International Sikh Sabhiachar Society

510-774-5909

president@dalkhalsaalliance.org

Indian government secretive about uranium pollution of Punjabi children

Indian government secretive about uranium pollution of Punjabi children

India’s generation of children crippled by uranium waste
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations
Guardian.co.uk The Observer by Gethin Chamberlain 30 August 2009

Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country’s borders………………………

Health workers in the Punjabi cities of Bathinda and Faridkot knew something was terribly wrong when they saw a sharp increase in the number of birth defects, physical and mental abnormalities, and cancers. They suspected that children were being slowly poisoned.

But it was only when a visiting scientist arranged for tests to be carried out at a German laboratory that the true nature of their plight became clear. The results were unequivocal. The children had massive levels of uranium in their bodies, in one case more than 60 times the maximum safe limit.

The results were both momentous and mysterious………………..if a few hundred children – spread over a large area – were contaminated, how many thousands more might also be affected? Those are questions the Indian authorities appear determined not to answer. Staff at the clinics say they were visited and threatened with closure if they spoke out. The South African scientist whose curiosity exposed the scandal says she has been warned by the authorities that she may not be allowed back into the country.But an Observer investigation has now uncovered disturbing evidence to suggest a link between the contamination and the region’s coal-fired power stations………………………

India’s reluctance to acknowledge the problem is hardly unexpected: the country is heavily committed to an expansion of thermal plants in Punjab and other states. Neither was it any surprise when a team of scientists from the Department of Atomic Energy visited the area and concluded that while the concentration of uranium in drinking water was “slightly high”, there was “nothing to worry” about. Yet some tests recorded levels of uranium in the ground water as high as 224mcg/l (micrograms per litre) – 15 times higher than the safe level of 15mcg/l recommended by the WHO. (The US Environmental Protection Agency sets a maximum safe level of 20mcg/l.)…………………………

There have also been claims that the contamination may have been exacerbated by depleted uranium carried on the wind from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At a seminar in Amritsar in April, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, a former chief of the naval staff, suggested that areas within a 1,000-mile radius of Kabul – including Punjab – may be affected by depleted uranium. Although the prevailing monsoon winds blow either from the north-east or the south-west, there are times when a depression originating in the Mediterranean can result in rainfall in Punjab.

http://nuclear-news.net/2009/08/31/indian-government-secretive-about-uranium-pollution-of-punjabi-children/

THE WHOLE WORLD IS HIS FAMILY

THE WHOLE WORLD IS HIS FAMILY

Sikh Guru Sahiban consider the whole world as His family, and they inspire the Sikhs to behave toward it like a family; this is a part of their Message. They also stress on falling in love with only one Creator by getting out of duality once for all. Sixth and Tenth Nanaks had to fight in self defense, but never ever they broke the rules of treating the world as His family; this suggests how our Guru Sahiban dealt carefully with worldly conflicts. In this book, based on and supported by Guru–thought, an appeal is made to all Sikhs to develop universal mind, and get out of small holes of mentality that do nothing but divide humanity. Guru Nanak Dev Ji accepts only one path to realize the Creator, and that is to involve with Him and praise Him. Nonetheless, he also stresses on looking at various faiths and ideologies as a part of His Will; in other words, it is all right to support a free will of the people, who are living in His Will literally; regardless whatever they say, they say as per His Will. There are passionate people, and there are cruel people in this world. We can sever our relations with selfish and cruel people without hating their existence; we should not make them a subject of slandering. Treating His big family like our own doesn’t mean we should support tyranny or ill intentional behavior of others in submissiveness; we should rather resist it to keep goodness in His show. If evil people exist in His will, so do the virtuous people. As our Guru guides us, we support goodness. Self defense is naturally programmed in the body; that is the reason that it reacts toward any attack if it occurs on it. For instance, automatically our hands come out to protect our body if we face an attack; when the birds or animals overwhelmed with the “feeling of a threat,” they get ready to bite or attack. He has blessed everyone with this kind of awareness of survival (self–defense). Being humans, we need to act in self defense if our lives are threatened. Our Guru Sahiban have shown us how to do that. Anyone, who doesn’t want to listen to what the Guru says, is free to do whatever his or her thinking guides because that will be also His Will. We should just try to pass on Guru Message to those who are ready to listen.

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People out there on the internet, question about Sikh Gurus’ preaching by saying that they themselves didn’t implement their teachings; for instance they ask why Gurus Sahiban, who spoke against caste, didn’t marry their off spring in lower castes, and while asking others to “work hard and give it away,” why they never worked hard to give away to the needy. These questions are a display of shallow knowledge of the questioners about Sikh Guru Sahiban and Gurbani. Without knowing circumstances of Sikh Guru Sahiban during their physical presence on the Earth, such people, with their own small–minded agendas, are merely into insulting by posing as Sikh–seekers. The Guru Ji questioned Caste system in those times when down trodden people wouldn’t even be allowed to worship on religious places. To speak against castes doesn’t need marrying off springs into so called lower castes; many of these people cannot even realize how it was difficult for a lower caste to seek relations in upper class and survive. After Tenth Nanak’s Amrit ceremony event, a big roar was created by high caste believers against it because through it, Tenth Nanak leveled the wall of castes. (Gursobha, by Sonepat).

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They forget that Guru Nanak Dev Ji personally worked as a clerk, Buffalo care–takers and a farmer. No other founder of a religion worked as hard as Guru Nanak Dev Ji did before him or after him. All other Guru Sahiban worked hard to bring harmony in the society, to help people in the time of famine and other natural disasters, and to teach self defense in time of danger. When a business needs to be taken care of, the owners though do not work physically on business premises, they put all efforts in it to take care of its existence; it is also deemed hard work. Working hard doesn’t mean that the business owners need to work hard physically in the business! There is manual hard work, and there is also mental hard work too. Childish questions can come only from childish minds. Sikh Guru Sahiban were spiritually enlightened leaders; they did what they should have. These are false accusations on Sikh Guru Sahiban obviously by those (who pose as Sikhs on different sites) who intend to promote a different agenda. Their baseless claim about Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s advice on “His Name Simran” as “an ambiguous statement” proves that they do not know Gurbani, and they remain busy in leveling false accusations against Sikh Guru Sahiban and Bhagatas, because “Naam Simran” is well elaborated in many ways in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. These are the people, who keep saying that Guru Nanak Dev Ji wrote in Hindi (as a proof they want hand written note of Guru Nanak Dev Ji); they are so ignorant that they do not know that people do not write in Hindi but in its script “Devnagari.” They just cannot understand that in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, there is a Bani named “Patti,” that defines “Gurmukhi script–letters.” Sikhs need to deal with such people carefully and forgive them as ignorant, and ignore totally what they say. They are also members of His big family, never forget that. That is the reason I have referred their ignorant questioning.

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My effort is to deal with the current situations by understanding Guru Message to tread on that path Guru Nanak Dev Ji laid out for us. I have taken support from Gurbani by keeping “the concept of Guru Message” in my mind. Here and there, I have tried to discuss some issues I faced some time in my life, but their reference are given in the book solely to make clear the concept of Guru Message. Time to time, some people have been opposing virtuous ideologies; it has been happening like this since the beginning of History (or before that), but the true Sikhs should remain focus on what Sri Guru Granth Sahib says. They should live according to Guru–teachings. In the beginning, let me state that the Guru shown path will appear very difficult to follow because our Guru asks us to feel detached from what is shown as “dear and necessary” in our society. Nonetheless, when “feeling detached to Maya” becomes understandable in pursuit of the union with Him, the Guru–shown path will become a way of life, and it will fill the life with joy as it becomes free from worries and anxieties.

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Guru Message is for the whole world, it is not designed for particular area or population, and here is a verification of this fact in the Guru’s own words, 647, SGGS, Mehla 3: 

sloku mÚ 3 ]

prQwie swKI mhw purK boldy swJI sgl  jhwnY ]

gurmuiK hoie su Bau kry Awpxw Awpu pCwxY ]

gur prswdI jIvqu mrY qw mn hI qy mnu  mwnY ]

Salok Mehlaa 3:

Parthaa–ay saakhee mahaa purakh bolday saajhee sagal jahaanai.

Gurmukh ho–ay so bha–o karay aapnaa aap pachhaanai.

Gur parsaadee jeevat marai taa man hee tay man maanai.

||1||{647} Salok of Third Nanak:

In Essence : Guru–teachings are for the whole world; who are true followers of the Guru, they feel fear/respect of the Creator, and search themselves (analyze their purpose of life and try to find His presence within), and then with the Guru, they become detached being alive. Thus, by convincing their minds, they believe in Him. 

I feel, Third Nanak uses the word “Mahapurakh/Great man” for the Guru, and in the end of the Saloka, he talks about believing in the Creator by having full respect and fear for Him. And “man hi te man mania” means they believe in Him by convincing their minds through the Guru; the next following Vaaka makes it clear that it is about believing in the Guru–teachings and Him. 

ijn kau mn kI prqIiq nwhI nwnk sy ikAw kQih igAwnY ]1]

Jin ka–o man kee parteet naahee naanak say ki–aa katheh gi–aanai. ||1||{647} 

In Essence : Nanak says those who have no faith (in the Guru and Akalpurakh), there is no use of expounding divine knowledge to such people?

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(Some interpreters interpret above Vaakas like this, “Those people, who have no faith in their minds, how they can expound divine knowledge?” I disagree with them. If we go through earlier Vaakas of this Saloka, Guru expresses about the importance of Guru–blessings; therefore the word “parteet/trust/faith” expresses about the faith in the Guru and Akalpurakh.)

In above Guru – Vaaka, it is stressed that when the believers realize the importance of their coming into this world, through the Guru, they get detached from the Maya. They have fear of Akalpurakh (Fear here also means respect that comes out of fear). If one doesn’t have faith either in Guru or Akalpurakh, there is no use of imparting Guru knowledge to such a person. In other words, if the people have interests in different pursuits, they will prefer their pursuits to Guru–guidance; let them enjoy what they want to; it is not necessary to try to convince them. (believe in His “Will”)

Above article is taken from GURU MESSAGE book.

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Sincerely yours

Anant Singh

Punjab (India)

Women's Chamber and FPCCI News

Women's Chamber and FPCCI News

Women enterprisers will be provided more opportunities: Senator Ghulam Ali

We need govt, community support to become self-sufficient: Samina Fazil

Dated: June 23

Islamabad:

President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Senator Haji Ghulam Ali on Thursday said women entrepreneurs have been given more opportunities to excel.

He said that he will facilitate meeting of Islamabad Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI) with Prime Minister and President who are very concerned about welfare and development of 52 per cent of the population of Pakistan.

Speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by Samina Fazil, President IWCCI, Haji Ghulam Ali said that government has provided Rs 60 billion to BISP for social welfare; it can also help business women by providing interest-free loans.

He said that FPCCI will promote women entrepreneurs, boost their presence in business delegations and arrange women-specific tours to foreign countries so that they can have exposure and enhanced trade opportunities.

The FPCCI President who was on his first-ever visit to any women’s chamber, also assured women of provision of a plot for Chambers building and grant from TDAP.

Earlier in her welcome address, Samina Fazil, President IWCCI, demanded 25 per cent presence of women in all foreign business trips.

She said that male-dominated business chambers should amend rules and support women to help them become self sufficient.

Samina also demanded FPCCI to help establish a display centre in Islamabad to encourage the cottage industry run by women and arrange financial literacy programmes.

We deserve to have independent workingwomen development programmes by government and private sector, Samina underlined.

Others present on the occasion included VP FPCCI Fazal-e-Elahi, Chairman Capital Office FPCCI, Hameed Akhtar Chadda, President RCCI Syed Ali Raza, Chairmen of FPCCI Standing Committees Malik Sohail, Tariq Mehmood and Arif Rafique were also present.

Tariq Mehmood stressed information to women about good borrowing practices, proper business planning, productive use of the loan, repayments, avoiding over-indebtedness, increase in savings, and knowing consumer rights.

Of 1.6 million microfinance borrowers some 100,000 enterprises are exclusively owned by women, said Tariq.

Arif Rafique pointed out that low literacy and social constraints are barring women, especially micro- entrepreneurs from avenues through which they can grow their businesses and increase contribution.

Malik Sohail lauded the struggle of women and offered full cooperation. He said that women will soon overcome all obstacles.

He said it is responsibility of men to support women wherever they need help otherwise country cannot climb ladders of success.

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Samina Fazil,

President,

Islamabad Women's CCI

Mobile: 0323-5343199

Land-line: 051-2252256

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REJECTION OF MERCY PETITION BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA !

Re: REJECTION OF MERCY PETITION

BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA !

Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa

Justice of Peace

AUSTRALIA

Piare Vade Bhai Sahib ji,

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!

Bhai Sahib Panthpreet Singh ji described the matter in 'Two words", which we would say in a paragraph or two. Our profound thanks to Bhai Sahib ji, because the big pracharaks, so to speak, of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhal Committee (SGPC) and/or the Akali Dal-Badal Private Limited Incorporation will not dare to open their mouths, because they are afraid of their master, Hanera (Darkness/Prakash) Sinh Badal and gang. The latter is an agent of the Research and Analysis Wing and one of the characters involved in an 'undeclared' war on the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB in the form of a brutal military "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984 (under the occupation of the Brahmins-Hindus' demoncracy/democracy since 15th August, 1947). The 'undeclared' war took a toll of more than 260,000 innocent Sikhs.

We offer our CONGRATULATIONS to Bhai Sahib Panthpreet Singh ji. May Waheguru ji bless him and do his duties for the 'House of Guru Baba Nanak Sahib ji alias Guru Khalsa Panth' and the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB; the Holy and Historic Homeland of Sikhs.

Please convey our best wishes and warmest regards to Bhai Sahib Panthpreet Singh ji and like minded brothers and sisters of the Guru Khalsa Panth.

Best wishes and warmest regards.

Your younger brother,

Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)

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Dear Editor Joginder Singh, Rozana Spokesman (Chandigarh),

In the light of today's Editorial, if the President of India is merely a Rubber Stamp as it has already been proved especially by Giani Zail Singh and Mrs. Pritbha Patil, then why not to

abolish the Posts of the President, Vice President and Governors of different States? Their formalities could be performed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Chief Justices of the State High Courts. Moreover, such duties may not take more that 4-5 hours

in a week.

But Big Question is who will amend the Constitution of India and save millions rupees on these ceremonial establishments?

Gurmit Singh (Australia)

Open Letter to the Leader of the opposition to invite his immediate attention

Open Letter to the Leader

of the opposition to invite his immediate attention

June 22, 2011

The Honourable Jack Layton, M.P

Leader of the Opposition
House of Commons

Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0A6  

Dear Mr. Jack Layton,

On behalf of the Kashmir Diaspora Alliance, we would like to draw attention to grave humanitarian crisis in the Internationally Disputed Area of the Indian occupied Kashmir (IDAJK). The IDAJK question remains one of the oldest, unresolved, international problems in the world as an agenda item of the United Nations UN). Kashmir today a nuclear flash point, a root cause of poverty and wars in South Asia originated when India, on October 27, 1947 forcefully captured and occupied Kashmir (IDAJK) and denied the promised right to 'Self-Determination' as agreed upon several United Nations Security Council resolutions. This action divided its land and people by a cruel line of control, like the Berlin wall consequently creating a great human crisis in this region and the biggest military occupation on the planet. With the passage of time, instead of finding out the will and aspirations of the then IDAKJ through a plebiscite, India kept on cementing its illegal occupation through fraudulent accession and military suppression, which changed this paradise on earth into a bleeding vale today usually referred to as the land of atrocities, brutalities and suffering around the world. 

The atrocities committed by more than 700,000 Indian soldiers in a small area, virtually devoid of human rights, of the Kashmiri citizens cannot be forgotten. The Indian regime and its armed forces have killed more than 192,802 citizens, made 215,994 arrests, 110,117 individuals have disappeared, 115,782 homes demolished, leaving 122,792 widows and 207,335 orphans. Indian forces have been committing crimes such as rape, torture, persecution, terror, and gross human rights violations of the innocent IDAKJ. These cruelties have been documented by international human rights organizations such as United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Educational Development, International Tribunal on Kashmir and many others.  The sad fact behind all of this is that nobody is there to listen to the agony of the Kashmiri people, despite India allegedly claiming to be a 'progressing democracy', so to speak, since 15th August, 1947. 

Instead of stopping the activities of its armed personnel, the Indian administrations have entrenched itself into the lives of the Kashmiris.  Brutality of the army is disguised as defense of the Nation. What nation? The IDAKJ is not a nation. The occupying Indian army lives with the dictum that power flows through the barrel of the gun. Since June 11, 2010, one hundred and seventeen civilians (mostly school going teenagers) have been killed by the police and CRPF; more than 3,000 people left injured; many of them seriously and thousands were put behind bars. The shocking discovery of unmarked and unnamed graves in the IDAJK puts serious question marks about the safety of the disappeared or most likely deliberately killed youth.  Even the European Union Parliament unanimously passed a resolution in its session in Strasbourg on July 10, 2008 asking India to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the discovery of these graves. This demand is yet to be fulfilled.

As per Greater Kashmir dated June 16, 2011, a Kashmiri newspaper under caption stated “Come clean on AFSPA: Apex Court to Centre.”  The Indian court asked the government to clearly spell out its stand: whether army and paramilitary personnel enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for any penal offence committed in discharge of their official duties including fake encounters and rapes vis-a-vis AFSPA, Section 197 CRPC and Section 17 of the CRPF Act. The Honourable Sir, how long will the Indian army be allowed to enter any home, commit rapes and enjoy immunity as it has been done in discharge of their official duties.  To suppress the voice of Kashmiris, India has introduced Special powers acts, e. g., Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Public Safety Act and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act in the IDAJK which gives immunity to the armed personnel and paramilitary forces to take any action without being held responsible. 

We welcome the European Parliament resolution linking the Kashmir issue with signing of Free Trade Agreement with India. This is a positive development as far as the Kashmir issue is concerned. We have been seeking their facilitation for resolving this dispute. The paragraph-33 of the resolution passed by the European Parliament (EP) on May 11, 2011 over the FTA between India and European Union states showed its concerns on the human rights violations in occupied Kashmir. Prime Minister David Cameron admits that, “Britain is responsible for many of the world’s historic problems, including the conflict in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.” Similarly, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on October 29, 2010 has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir, after so many years of suffering, deserve full respect for their legitimate right to Self-Determination. 

Based on the same analogy, in view of Canada’s ratification of the human rights treaties, we urge that Government of Canada should follow suit. Canada has been a consistently strong voice for the protection of human rights and the advancement of democratic values around the world. Canada is a party to seven major international human rights conventions, many others, and encourages all countries which have not made these commitments to do so. We, as Canadians, expect that our government be a champion in the field of human rights by reflecting and promoting Canadian values. Canadians recognize that their interests are best served by a stable, rules-based international system. The UN charter and customary international law imposes on all countries the responsibility to promote and protect human rights. This is not merely a question of values, but a mutual obligation of all members of the international community, as well as an obligation of a state towards its citizens. The records show, however, that India has not only failed but is also in severe violation of human rights in the IDAJK. Our government should not give preference to business with India over moral and ethical values. It should also link any business dealings with India with the condition of immediate withdrawal of military and paramilitary forces from the IDAJK areas, as it has constructed bunkers, checkpoints, and barricades in residential areas creating a province wide jail. What a paradox it is that in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the juvenile age is 16 years whereas the rest of the states in India has a juvenile age 18 years and under.

We, therefore, solicit that no businesses with India till it resolves the humanitarian crisis in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and takes the following measures: 

1. To implement the United Nations Security Council resolutions on the right to self-determination

2. To uphold the European Parliaments resolution on mass graves in Kashmir


3. To withdraw the occupational forces from the IDAJK


4. To put an end to the consistent gross human rights violations through practices such as arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and summary or arbitrary execution, etc.


5. To respect international human rights norms and treaties which India is a signatory including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

6. To undertake an independent and impartial investigation in all killings including as noted above, custodial deaths, disappearances, fake encounters, rapes, etc., under international law and international auspices

7. To allow access to major human rights NGOs and humanitarian organizations in the IDAJK 

8. To stop torture of the relatives of the Canadian Kashmiris and others in the IDAJK due to their protest and free speech about Kashmir problems here in Canada

9. Draconian Laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Public Safety Act and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act which violate human rights must be withdrawn immediately.

We look forward to hearing from you of your active role in the resolution of this humanitarian crisis in the IDAJK.

Kind regards,

Habib Yousafzai

Spokesperson

Kashmir Diaspora Alliance

127-Westmore Drive Unit 114

Toronto, Ontario

M9V-3Y6

Tel: (647) 889-2829

Fax:(416) 213-1110 

Rifah Party Calls for Dismissal of Rehman Malik & Ambassador Haqqani

Rifah Party Calls for Dismissal of Rehman Malik & Ambassador Haqqani

Janab Usman Khalid ji

Director (Former), London Institute of South Asia

Secretary-General

The Rifah Party, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

UNITED KINGDOM

Piare Vade Bhai Sahib ji (My dear older brother),

Aslaam O Alaikum!

This is in reply to your Open Letter to various websites, brothers, sisters, elderly and youth who has the interests of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at his/her heart and recommending the "Dismassal of the Fifth Column Ambassador (Mr Hussain Haqani) and the Minister of Interior of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mr Rehman Malik."I fully agree with your recommendation and decision to take the steps by the Awam of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and to preserve the vision of the Father of Pakistan, Janab M A Jinnah. I am proud of your decisions and recommendations. May the Khudawand Bakhshinda bless you with best of your health, happiness and your vision for the 'Sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan'.

Your younger brother, the writer of this letter, is a Sikh and belongs to the House of Guru Nanak Sahib and you, my older brother, Janab Usman Khalid ji, we both have common interests to work on our common goals. 

My goal, as you know is to inform the Sikh world, to save themselves from the 'Brahmins-Hindus, who are the 'Butchers of this peaceful world, according to Guru Baba Nanak Sahib whom the Awam of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, especially the Punjab of Pakistan respect far more than the Sikhs living under the 'Slavery of the Brahmins-Hindus', since 15th August, 1947. This was the day when the Sikhs of the First Sovereign and Secular Nation, Sikh Raj of Punjab, of a Sikh monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th August, 1947, was 'swallowed', because of the studity of Master Tara Sinh and others, deliberately by the Brahmins-Hindus, the 'unelected' Brahmins-Baniyas' Congress Party. On 10th of October, 1947, the Sikhs were termed as a community of the 'Lawless people and dangerous to the law-abiding Brahmins-Hindus'. The Sikhs have been "Struggling To Regain For Their Sovereignty, Independence and Political power, since 14th March, 1849, and their Struggle to Regain Their Sovereignty will Continue until the Sikhs of Punjab attain their goal."

My older brother, Janab Usman Khalid, with the order of the Khudawand Bakhshinda, has formed The Rifah Party of Pakistan and to guide the Awam of Pakistan, with his visions, against the evil forces who are anti-Pakistan. These forces broderly are four: Brahmins-Hindus of the Brahmins' demoncracy/democracy (3% and 12%, Brahmins and Hindus, out of a total of over 1.2 billion population of India). India had been licking the boots of the defunct state of the USSR in 1970-1980s), and now the United States and may be Israel have been promoting the 'Brahmins-Hindus' demoncracy as a 'progressing state' of South Asia. I question those who call India a progressing state, where more than 76% population of people go to sleep hungary for 7 days a week and 365 days in a year. Who would call India a progressive/progressing democracy? The world witness everyday on the television what kind of democracy or criminal state India is?

My dear older brother, the Khudawand Bakhshinda has brought you out from many situations. For what? Simply to provide alternatives (political) for the ills which have been happening in the great country of Pakistan. These ills are anti-Pakistan people appointed in the foreign service of Pakistan. I am glad you have brought these people in the lime light, i. e., Hussain Haqqani, maybe his wife as well, if my reading of the world affairs is correct; along with the people of the Government of Pakistan. These people are Mr 10-25% Zardari, his colleagues like the Wazir-e-Azam (too weak a character for the office),  Rehman Malik, Foreign Minister and others, who cannot stand the pressure of external nations. If they cannot bear the heat of the kitchen, then they have no right to stay in kitchen even 1/10th of a second.

Indeed, the Sikhs have their incompetents and hungary 'Brahmins-Hindus' in the garb of The Sikhs, like Hanera (Prakash/Darkness) Sing Badal, Manmohan Sinh and many or thousands like them. They are the 'Frankestein of the Sikhs', i. e., KP Gill, Mr Virk, S Dhindsa, etc. Yes, we both, in the PUNJABS of 14/15th August, 1947, have common problems. We have to get rid of our problems. The Sikhs have to be 'sovereign', if they want to survive.

The Awam of Pakistan and its protectors of the political boundaries are other institutions. They all have to realize how to remain as a 'sovereign' country. The sovereignty, which was brought by the Father of Pakistan, Janab MA Jinnah. Not only that, they have give moral support to the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir, where more than 500,000 innocent Kashmiris have lost their life to the 'Frankestein Monster of the Brahmins-Hindus'.

Finally, I wish you the very best. May the Khudawand keeps you in best of your health, cheerful, fight against the evil forces, and to provide your guidance to the great people of Pakistan and your nears and dears.

Your younger brother,

Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki), Ph D, FIBA, RM (CCM)

Editor in Chief

International Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435