1-Punjab is the historic Homeland of the Sikhs.  The Sikh religion and the Sikh nation were founded in this country.  The Sikhs have been the ‘masters’ of this country de facto and de jure.  It was only in 1849 that the Sikh Homeland became part of British India Company and, for convenience of administration, the British Empire considered it part of India.  The period between 1710 and 1762 was a period of hide and seek.

The Moghul, the Afghans and the Sikhs alternately ruled the land. The Moghuls and Afghans were obeyed by the populace because of the terror and/or awe of military might of the rulers/invaders; but the Sikhs were accepted as “rulers of people because they were of the people.”  The Sikhs ruled their Homeland until they surrendered their arms before General Gilbert at Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan), on 14th March, 1949.  On 29th March, 1849, Lord Dalhousie formally proclaimed the annexation of the Sikh land, Khalistan, to British Empire.  Between 1849 and 1947, on different levels and planks, the Sikhs struggled to regain their lost sovereignty, the battle that has been going on to-date.  The British action to hand over the Sikh Homeland was strange and surpassed the situation in Norway in 1814, when Norway was gifted away to Sweden against the wishes of its people.  The Sikh Homeland was occupied by the British (since March 1849), and was gifted away to Hindu India against the wishes of the Sikhs.  The Sikhs were told by persons like the Viceroy, to keep quiet or be prepared for genocide by the British army (Lord Mountbatten’s message to the Sikh nation: Viceroy’s Report No. 8, CAB 127/11, XCA 04623 dated May 23, 1947).  Despite this threat, the Sikhs’ central body, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee and the Akali Dal, along with all other Sikh organizations never gave up the demand of their sovereignty and independence of Khalsa Raj of their forefathers, Khalistan.  The demands for the return of their Sovereign Sikh State was repeated on 1st and 10th April, 1946.  Further, India is known for her notoriety of persecution of the non-Hindu minorities (Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Dalits, etc.), especially of the Sikhs. To date, India has mercilessly eliminated 260,000 Sikhs (Sekhon AS 1997 The Sikh Nation - Khalistan The Sikhs: Past and Present 7(1), 28-30; 54; Dilgeer HS and Sekhon AS 1992 India Kills the Sikhs The Sikh Educational Trust, Box 60246, University of Alberta Postal Outlet, Edmonton, AB; Dilgeer HS and Sekhon AS 1992 The Sikhs’ Struggle for Sovereignty, An Historical Perspective (ed) A. T. Kerr, The Sikh Educational Trust, Box 60246, University of Alberta Postal Outlet, Edmonton, AB; Aulakh GS India Should Make Amends Before Demanding Apologies, The Washington Times, October 21, 1997).

2-The above said persecution of the Sikhs in Punjab is going on despite the installation of a puppet government in Punjab, headed by a Sikh, Prakash Singh Badal.  Mr Badal had burned the Indian Constitution during the Commonwealth games held in Delhi in the late 70s or early 80s.

3-Just seven weeks after the transfer of power to Nehru and company, the Hindu Governor of Punjab, Chandulal Trivedi, issued a circular to the Deputy Commissioners of Punjab declaring the Sikh nation to be a lawless nation: “The Sikhs as a community are lawless people and are a menace to the law-abiding Hindus in the province.  The Deputy Commissioners should take special measures against them.”  A graduate of the Cambridge University, U. K., and member of the British India Civil Service, Sardar Kapur Singh, became the first victim of the Hindu trap of Jawaharlal Nehru and associates.  Similarly, the Government of India told to the Indian Army personnel that “Any knowledge of amritdharis (initiated Sikhs) who are dangerous people and pledged to commit murder, arson and acts of terrorism should immediately be brought to the notice of authorities.  These people might appear harmless from the outside but they are basically committed to terrorism. In the interest of all of us their identity and whereabouts must always be disclosed (Indian Army Gazette Baat Cheet, 153, Indian Defense Headquarters; Indian Express, September 18, 1984, p. 7).

4-The Indian (Hindu) constitution, passed on November 26, 1949 declaring the Sikhs to be Hindus, was out rightly rejected by Sikh parliamentarians like Sardar Bhupinder Singh Mann and Sardar Hukam Singh.  Thus, both Sardar Mann and Sardar Singh did not sign this document.  The Sikh intelligentsia considered it as a “death warrant” for the Sikh nation.  As of today, no elected Sikh parliamentarian has endorsed the Indian constitution on the Sikh nation’s behalf. As such, the Sikh nation rejects the Indian constitution once and for all (True Story or Sachi Sakhi by Singh K. a former member of parliament, a victim of the New Delhi’s first administration, and National Professor of Sikhism; see appendix).

5-Indian regime of Indira Gandhi continued its undeclared war on the Sikh nation in June 1984, military “Operation Bluestar”, in which more than 60,000 innocent, unarmed infants, youths, and elderly men and women were ruthlessly butchered.  The Darbar Sahib Complex (mistakenly known as Golden Temple Complex) and the Sikh nation’s holy places were destroyed by the military attack.  Innocent youths were killed at point blank range.  The Sikh Reference Library was burnt.  The whole action was in the conformity of (i) destroy the culture, (ii) destroy the language and (iii) destroy the literature; thus, one succeeds to destroy the race (Gill PS 1975 The Sikh Culture and Heritage).  Precisely, this was the ulterior motive of the Indian Hindu regimes to annihilate the Sikhs of the Sikh Homeland, the nation which became without a land on 15th August, 1947, and lost its sovereignty as well.  Other military operations carried out to eradicate the Sikhs of Punjab since Operation Bluestar of June’84 are code named as Black November of 1984 (supervised by an a Lt.-General), Bidar, Black Thunder I, II & III, Woodrose, Mund, Man-Made Floods, Clean, Night, etc.

“I don’t give a damn if the Golden Temple and whole of Amritsar are destroyed, I want Bhindranwale dead,” said Indira Gandhi during  “Operation Bluestar.”

6-To get even with the Sikhs and to break their backs, Indian Foreign Secretary, M. M. K. Wali, said on 7th June, 1984 (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, As It Happens) “that we have broken the back of the Sikhs (in India) and now we will get them elsewhere.”

7-Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi (son of Indira Gandhi) is on the record and said “let us teach these bastards - the Sikhs - a lesson”, just before leaving the Calcutta airport on October 31, 1984.

8-To prove that the Sikhs are terrorists and to get back the lost sympathy and world opinion, the Indian regime of Rajiv Gandhi and its Research and Analysis Wing (apparently a polit-burreau of 7 elite class Hindus or brahmins and NOT responsible even to the Hindu’s parliament) brought down the Air India Flight 182, on June 23, 1985, that has originated in Canada and which exploded off the coast of Ireland before approaching London, U. K. (Kashmeri Z, McAndrew 1989 Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada, pp 159. James Lorimer & Company Publishers, Toronto; Kilgour D. 1994 Betrayal: The Spy Canada Abandoned, Chapters 9 & 10, pp 129-163. Prentice Hall Canada Inc, Scarborough, On, Canada ISBN 0-13-325697-9.  The Hon David Kilgour is the Secretary of State for Africa and South America, Government of Canada).  The then-India’s Consulate-General in Toronto tried unsuccessfully, through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), to put the blame onto the Canadian Sikhs, even before the Airline could release the official passenger list of the ill fated craft.  The RCMP has not been able to conclude its investigation so far.

9-Between 1984 and 1994, the Indian government has spent abroad more than Rupees 4,800 crors (= US$1.5 billion) to make Sikhs terrorists in the eyes of their fellow countrymen in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada only, where a great majority of Sikhs reside after leaving Punjab (Dr G. S. Aulakh in The Sikhs: Past and Present 6(2), 25, 1996).  Not only to make them terrorists, the Indian regime is using the Sikh Quislings or black sheep, former and/or present cabinet ministers (H. K. Manmohan Singh, Prakash Singh Badal, Buta Singh, Surjit Sinh Barnala, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Mr Aliwal, Prem Singh Chandumajra, Manjit Singh Calcutta, Kanwaljit Singh Kaptan, Harkishen Surjit, Manjinder Bitta, Bibi Rajinder Bathal, Harbans Singh Dhindsa, Amrinder Singh of Patiala, etc); Sikh journalists [Jatinder Pannu, Jagjit Anand, Kuldip Nayyar, Barjinder S Hamdard, Editor of Ajit (Punjabi), Khushwant Singh, T. Hayer (recently excommunicated by the Mukh-Sewadar or the Head Priest of Akal Takht Sahib for his anti-Sikh activities, of Canada)], the Sikh clergy (the so-called professor Manjit Singh of Anandpur Sahib, Darshan Singh Ragi, Harbans Singh of Jagadhari, Kewal Singh of Damdama Sahib) and other writers like Jasbir Singh Ahaluwalia, to slander the Sikh community.  The other ulterior motives of the Indian government are to distract world opinion from the blatant abuses of Human Rights, and the Sikhs’ justified demand for the liberation of Khalistan from the yolk of the Indian government; creating dissension, disharmony, desecration of Gurdwaras (Houses of God), and the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib (The Edmonton Journal, 31st October, 1998).

10-Indian army Brig. R. P. Sinha said on March 8, 1991 that “... a threat to the villagers that all males would be killed and their women taken to army camps to breed to a new race if there was any militant activity in their village” in Khalistan.  Other example of the official policy of the Hindu India regime becomes clear from Mr Bal Ram Jakhar, a cabinet minister in the P. V. Rao’s administration, who said that “to preserve the unity of India, if we have to eradicate 20 million or 2-cror Sikhs, we will do so.”  One of the former prime minister, Chandershekhar, said in 1991 to a Sikh delegation at his residence that you do not know the might of our armed forces.  We will eliminate 10,000 Sikh youths and the world will know nothing about it.

11-In a 74-page preliminary report on its ongoing investigation, the Central Bureau of Investigation admitted that it had prima facie found that a total of 984 bodies had been cremated the police after being labeled “unidentified”.  The justices of the Punjab High Court called these cremations “worse than a genocide,” the justices also stated that “we shudder to think of such a thing happening in a democracy (The Hon Dan Burton, Member of Congress. Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, Second Session, Vol 142, Washington, DC, Monday, July 29, 1996).

12-Analyzing India’s nuclear ventures of 1974 and 1998, Drs Sekhon, Dhadli and Sandhar said that “India’s nuclear ventures are that which India could not accomplish to finish the Sikhs via ulterior motives, it would do through its nuclear warheads.  These warheads, with the slightest action, will eliminate not only the Sikhs of Punjab, but also all the Punjabi-speaking communities, including the Punjabi Hindus who have even disowned their mother tongue, Punjabi, since 1961, and the Punjabi-speaking and non-Punjabi Muslims of Pakistan” [The Sikhs: Past and Present 1998, Vol 8(1), p 12-13].

13-On 11th August, 1911, Mr D. Petri, Assistant Director, Criminal Intelligence, Government of British India, in his Intelligence Report recorded: “Hinduism has always been hostile to Sikhism whose Gurus powerfully and successfully attacked the principle of caste which ids the foundation on which the whole fabric of Brahminism has been reared. The activities of Hindus have, therefore, been constantly directed to undermining of Sikhism both by preventing the children of Sikh father from taking Pahul and reducing professed Sikhs from their allegience to their faith. Hinduism has strangled Budhism, once a formidable rival to it and it has already made serious in roads into the domain of Sikhism” (see The Sikhs: Past and Present 8(1), 10, 1998).

1989

Can anyone (member of the Guru Khalsa Panth) trust the so-called “Presidents of Akali Dal-Badal and other factions (Amritsar)? Both did the back stabbing of the Sikh Nation, Punjab, Khalistan (under the “occupation” of the Brahmins autocracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat alias ‘Democracy of Propaganda’ or the alleged Indian democracy, since 15th August, 1947)?”

19^th August

Simranjit Singh Mann, one the president, Akali Dal (Amritsar faction), in an affidavit of to the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, reiterated his confidence in the Constitution of India. The Constitution, which denied the Sikhs their “Sikh Identity and existence (see Annexation).”

1993

Manmohan Sinh, the present Chief, Council of Ministers, India, said at the United Nations session on Human Rights in Vienna, AUSTRIA, on 24th June, 1993, "…he being Sikh finds no abuses of Human Rights of Sikhs much less any minorities in India." And another person, Manmohan Singh's colleague of Islamic faith, Shahabuddin, said the same for Muslims of India as did Manmohan Singh for the Sikhs' abuses of Human Rights in the Sikhs' holy and historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan (under the Indian alias the Brahmins (elite) autocracy's occupation, since 15th August, 1947). Manmohan Singh's statement was 'refuted' in the strongest possible words by the human rights and peace loving citizens (delegates) of North America and elsewhere. .

2002

20^th January

A son of Khalsa Panth, Sardar Sukhbir Singh Osan’s (moderator,

www.burningpunjab.com) Suspicious death (by cardiac arrest) suspicious death (by cardiac arrest?) on 20^th January. Sardar Sukhbir Singh Osan was an energetic and fine young man. Dr Sekhon wrote that Sardar Sukhbir Singh Osan's sudden demise was a great loss to the Guru Khalsa Panth. For the last two or three months, he had a case registered against him on 'false/fabricated grounds' that he is the "Editor of a newspaper, Burning Punjab [www.burningpunjab.com]." A Deputy Inspector-General Police (Intelligence), from Jammu and Kashmir (Internationally disputed territory under the occupation of Brahmins Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat since 15th August, 1947) was specifically deputed to 'deal' with Sardar Osan. The case was nothing but to harass Sardar Osan.

I was wondering if you would like to shed any light, as a lawyer in Jalandhar, on Sardar Sukhbir Singh Osan's sudden demise. Sardar Osan was a fine youngman, with lots of energy and love for the Guru Khalsa Panth. For the last two or three months, he had a case registered against him on the 'false/fabricated grounds' that he is the "Editor of a newspaper, Burning Punjab." A Deputy Inspector-General Police (Intelligence), from Jammu and Kashmir (Internationally disputed territory under the occupation of Brahmins Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat since 15th August, 1947) was specifically deputed to 'deal' with Sardar Osan. The case was nothing but to harass Sardar Osan.

25^th January

Mohatarama (Mrs) Manju Qureshi’s "Sikhan Daa Masiha" Maseeha of Sikhs Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale An exceptionally was a well written by Mohatarma (Bibi) Manju Qureshi for the title “Shaheed-Bilas Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale”, compiled by Sirdar Gurtej Singh, IAS, Professor of Sikhism and Dr Swaranjit Singh (in Gurmukhi). Bibi Qureshi’s article was translated by Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon of Canada.

2004

Dr Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke released his book “Tabai Ros Jagio” and its DVD (a must to see for the Sikhs), Attack on the Sikh culture, heritage, literature, Sikh Gurus, Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhs’ Holy scripture) by the fundamentalist Hindus of the Hindu Mahasabha (mother of all evils) and its offshoots (i. e., Bhartiya Janta Party, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Rashtrtiya Swamsewak Sangh, Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (RSS), etc., was released.

2005

The first publication of the London Institute of South Asia (LISA), “Authentic Voices of South Asia (ed) Usman Khalid ISBN0-9548929-0-9 and 0-9548929-1-7,” was released. The book contained 12 Chapters on India in search of imperial destiny, Aryan aggression on Indian culture, Fight to finish Brahmanism, The Sikhs are a nation, The Sikh nation and Khalistan, Kashmiris struggle for freedom, The Two nation theory revisited, The Creation of Bangladesh, Politics of partition and secession, Kashmir: the problem & the solution and Union of Pakistan & Afghanistan: Impossible or inevitable by Syed Ali Geelani, V T Rajshekar, Brigadier (retired) Usman Khalid, Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, Dr M Abdul Mu’min Chowdhury, Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon, Dr Syed Inayatullah Andrabi and Abidullah Jan.

Review of The Authentic Voices of South Asia by Dr K Yusuf, Vice Chancellor, Quid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, presented the first review of The Authentic Voices of South Asia (www.lisauk.com); International Journal of Sikh Affairs Vol 16(1), June Issue, 2006 ISSN 1481-5435.

1^st July

Dal Khalsa United States raised the flag of Khalistan in the State of California. Present at the ceremony were the Congregation, Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC, Dr P S Ajrawat, Sardar P S Dakha, A S Pannu, Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon of Canada, and hundreds more. The event was recorded by the Voice of America and showed on Aaj Tak television of India.

Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon out rightly rejected the dispatch ‘State Affairs – A Dangerous Move’ of 8^th November by Raveen Thukral, The Hindustan Times Establishment.

18 September

“The Mitrokhin Archive, Vol II: The KGB and the world” by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (to be published by Penguin) alleges links between KGB, India government Mr Suresh Sharma, Ludhiana, wrote his frustrations that there are ‘No Jobs for Punjabis (in Punjab)’ www.tribuneindia.com/mailbag

Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer, in his recently released title “Akal Takht Da Falsafa” stated that the so-called Nanakshahi Calendar [Jantri of Pal Singh Purewal], approved on 28^th March, 2003, by an 11-member committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee, is, in fact, a Brahmnical calendar. Various authors from Australia, Punjab, Canada, etc have supported Dr Dilgeer’s views.

2006

3^rd March

CBC News Indepth: Kirpan case

Quebec kirpan case. ... Quebec Superior Court to force the school board to allowGurbaj [Singh] to return to school pending a court decision on the kirpan issue. ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/kirpan/ 1

5^th June

Sikh Federation (UK) Press Release Tuesday 6 June, 2006 Indian Government failed in its Attempts to Sabotage the Sikh Freedom Lobby in the EU (European Union) 18^th June

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Indian High Commissioner and his representatives avoided answering questions on the treatment of Sikhs, Press Release of the Sikh Federation of Britain.

24^TH JUNE

President of the London Institute of South Asia (LISA) and Chairman, LISA Book Awards

Committee, inaugurated the 2^nd LISA Book Award Seminar, at the Ealing Town Hall. Following his inaugural address, President (Brigadier) Usman Khalid, requested Dr G S Aulakh to chair the LISA seminar.  Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC, USA,

addressing the 2^nd Book Honour Seminar, London Institute of South Asia (LISA), London, UK,

20^th August

A group of ordinary people (highly professional and academics) appealed to the Punjab administration that “Prominent politicians of India and Punjab have been propping up a considerable force of ‘god-men’ in Punjab…is this a complimentary activity to recruiting, training and maintaining a devastatingly effective striking force of officially dead militants, as some knowledgeable people believe? Who are the ‘vulnerable Babas’ who are aiding the government in its task of thus maintaining ‘national unity and integrity?”(Int J Sikh Affairs 16(1), 32, 2006)

Writing on the Foreign policy: the United States of America, South Asia and the Sikhs, Dr Sekhon wondered whether the “U S President George W Bush had been taken for a visit to Hyderabad, one of the three places of India’s high technological industry. Did his advisors and/or a group of elite Sikh-Americans, who frequently visit him, request/advise him to go the Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar, Punjab, and make his own assessment of Sikh Affairs and their holy of the holiest shrine which is under the ‘tight control’ of the Indian administration (Int J Sikh Affairs 16, No. 1, 36-39, 2006).

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LETTER OF PROFOUND THANKS

Dr Sekhon writes To the Chairman, London Institute of South Asia Book Award Committee 2006

THE LISA BOOK AWARD 2006 TO SIRDAR GURTEJ SINGH, IAS  & IPS (FORMERLY)

Please accept my profound thanks for honoring Sirdar Gurtej Singh, Professor of Sikhism, with the LISA Book Award 2006, on 24th June, 2006. This was a very special day in the history of South Asia, especially where the history of the Sikhs is concerned. I have to be thankful to you, as the Chairman of the Book Award Committee, and the committee members who gave their unanimous decisions to confer the award to Sirdar Gurtej Singh, Professor of Sikhism, on Sirdar Sahib’s citation, “Tandav of the Centaur: Sikhs and the Indian Secularism ISBN 81-85815-02-X June 1996.”

Nothing could be more ideal nor a more suitable moment to honour Sirdar Gurtej Singh than the one, which took place on June 24-25. It was the time when every Sikh institution, Gurdwara, Darbar Sahib Complex (under the tight grip of the Brahmins autocracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat alias the ‘Democracy of Propaganda’ or the alleged Indian democracy), jathedars (Band leaders) of the Akali Dal factions, Presidents of the Akali Dal factions, President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee (Sikhs’ apex institution under the ‘tight fist’ of the Brahmins Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat), universities of Punjab, Khalistan (under the occupation of Brahmins autocracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat or the alleged Indian democracy, since 15th August, 1947). Their administrations, along with the administrations of Punjab, Khalistan, failed badly to honour Sirdar Gurtej Singh, Professor of Sikhism. What a disgrace to the Sikh jathedars, Sikhs’ political parties and institutions and the ‘joe boys and joe-girls’ of the New Delhi administrations (JL Nehru to Manmohan Sinh and Company) that the Professor of Sikhism, Sirdar Gurtej Singh, was honoured by a non-Sikh institution (London Institute of South Asia) for his critical analysis of the Indian Secularism. None of the Committees of Sikh Gurdwaras (Houses of God, Khudawand Bakhshinda, the Almighty Lord), irrespective of their geographical situation could do the much-needed work that the LISA did on 24th and 25th June, 2006. What a shame to the Sikh world who have been spending the public funds (Congregation’s offerings) on Sadhs – the so-called Saints (Kartoot Pasu ki Manas jaat, a teaching of the Sikhs’ Holy Scripture, Guru Granth Sahib ji), granthis, orators (Kathavaachaks), hymn singers, and the so-called Sikh politicians, if they are, from Punjab, Khalistan. I had no choice, Mr Chairman and the honourable LISA Book Award Committee members, but to make you aware of the facts and shortsightedness of the Sikh jathedars, devoid of ethics and humanity. So much so, an edict was made by the Brahmin autocracy’s controlled jathedar(s) of the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, as it is known as The Akal Takht Sahib, to deprive Sirdar Gurtej Singh from the title of the Professor of Sikhism. This is the indication to the non-Sikh world that ‘how the Sikh intelligentsia has been struggling with the ‘illiterate stooges of the Brahmins autocracy’.

Once again, Mr Chairman and the LISA Award committee, what you have done on 24th June, 2006, to honour Sirdar Gurtej Singh, Professor of Sikhism, was a historical event not only in the History of Sikhs, but also in the History of South Asia of our present times.

I wish you and the London Institute of South Asia a great success in the decade to come. Once again, Janab Usman Khalid Sahib ji and your committee members, please accept my heartfelt Congratulations.

Best wishes and warmest regards.

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June

Massacre of 38 Sikhs in the Indian occupied Kashmir

President Clinton writes, “during my visit to India in 2000, some Hindu militants decided to went their outrage by murdering 38 Sikhs in cold blood. If I hadn’t made the trip, the victims would probably still be alive. If I hadn’t made the trip because I feared what militants might do, I couldn’t have done my job as president of the United States.”

Congressional Records of the United States: Statement 6th June, 2006.

July

7^th July

Dr Sekhon appealed, on behalf of the International Journal of Sikh Affairs and its Editorial advisors that Her Excellency Maliha Lodhi, presently Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, be nominated to succeed His Excellency Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations.

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10^th August

Norway- Commenting on the Fatehgarh meeting regarding reform in the Gurdwara management, Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer, a historian and expert on the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, the Akal Takht Sahib, said that Ravi Inder Singh has already gone away, some others may go and a few more may be added to the committee. However, a Gurdwara reform is not possible unless the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee is cleared of the hoodlums and the newly created concept of the so-called jathedar of the Akal Takht is rejected by the so-called Panthic committee. Only the, Gurdwara may hope to be managed properly and without external interference.