Ask Pakistan for Khalistan: Canadian journalist Terry Milewski

Amidst the deteriorating diplomatic ties between India and Canada over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, Canadian journalist Terry Milewski lambasted the demand for Khalistan. Milewski additionally asserted that Pakistan has been driving the Khalistani boogie.  

In his current interview, the Canadian journalist categorically requested why don’t Khalistanis demand a share of the greater than 200-year-old Sikh Empire mendacity on the Pakistani facet? He asserted that Lahore was the Capital of the Sikh Empire and it was the seat of energy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. 

“पाक वाला पंजाब क्यों नहीं मांगते, असली राजधानी तो लाहौर ही है”

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Terry Milewski is a famend Canadian journalist working with the CBC TV information. He has carried out intensive analysis on Khalistan. He is the writer of the e book titled ‘Blood for Blood: Fifty Years of the Global Khalistan Project’. Reiterating his stance, in a current interview he asserted that the demand of Khalistanis is fallacious.

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Highlighting historic context, he highlighted that the separate Sikh state which these fringe however violent extremists demand attracts some resemblance with the Sikh Empire which was established by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and his seat was in Lahore, Pakistan. 

During the ghastly partition of India, Punjab was additionally divided into two components and a serious half went to Pakistan. He famous that the capital of Maharaja Ranjit Singh –Lahore and the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev are in Pakistan. 

He inquires what sort of Sikh state do these fringe however violent extremists wish to create with out together with the areas of the Sikh Empire mendacity on the Pakistani facet. 

(Excerpt from Terry Milewski interview with the Indian Express)

Terry Milewski stresses that not elevating the demand for a share of the Sikh Empire from Pakistan raises questions. He states that these items are the core of Sikh tradition and if they’ve such a requirement, so why don’t they ask it from Pakistan?

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Strikingly, the pleasant angle of Khalistanis in the direction of Pakistan itself raises questions. Going additional, Terry Milewski asserts that there is no such thing as a doubt that Pakistan has a serious function in Khalistani organisations. 

According to Milewski, if one thing like Khalistan comes into existence then it’s sure that it’ll not be pleasant to India and will be predisposed in the direction of Pakistan. Pakistan is behind this and that is the explanation why these organisations don’t declare Pakistani Punjab. Khalistan Tiger Force was based by Jagtar Singh Tara who’s energetic in Pakistan. Apart from that, many Khalistani have additionally taken shelter in Pakistan.

In an earlier interview with the Indian Express, Milewski delved deeper to clarify the function of Pakistan in planting and helping the Khalistani boogie. 

Emphasising the Khalistani-Pakistani tango, he said, “There is no other country on the face of the earth where Sikh separatists have been able to train, get weapons, have a safe haven, and do cross border attacks into Indian Punjab and elsewhere in India. There’s only Pakistan which has supported the movement since the very start.” 

Terry Milewski traces the genesis of Pakistan’s energetic involvement within the Khalistani boogie again in 1971 when India carved out an Independent nation named Bangladesh from Pakistan. 

Regarding Pakistani function in serving to Khalistanis, he added that the principal function performed by Pakistan has been in offering a base or a protected haven for wished terrorists. 

According to Terry Milewski, when Talwinder Singh Parmar carried out the Air India bombing in 1985, he fled Canada to keep away from getting arrested. Notably, Parmar was a Canadian citizen, as have been the opposite members of his gang who have been chargeable for the bombing. 

Interestingly, the daddy of present Canadian Prime Minister Justin, Pierre Trudeau had shielded Kanishka bombing mastermind Talwinder Parmar regardless of the Indira Gandhi-led Indian authorities making his extradition request in 1982. 

Later, Parmar fled to Pakistan, the place he was working a gun-running operation. He was launched to his weapons seller by an ISI agent who was an Islamic jihadist, with whom the Khalistanis shaped an alliance for strategic causes. 

On the function of China, Terry Milewski mentioned, “Guess who the Khalistani separatists are pledging allegiance to? ‘Sikhs for Justice’ for instance, which is the lobby group that is campaigning around the world for a referendum on Sikh independence, officially pledged in writing their allegiance to, firstly, Pakistan and secondly to China.” 

He added, “The Khalistan movement is not about popular support… it’s about geopolitics. China could well tolerate, subsidise and assist in various ways the Khalistan movement on the basis that it is making trouble for their enemies in India.”