The reason for spreading this nonsense is to put Pakistan on the path of perpetual mimetic warfare with the inevitable new power in Post-2014 Afghanistan–the Afghan Talibs. By obfuscating the differences between the Talibs and the TTP, the so called “progressive” forces want total war against the TTP and the Afghan Talibs.

General Hamid Gul has put together an organization called Difah e Pakistan which is a credible force to defend Pakistan. It is armed and dangerous

While President Obama is talking about an “End to the War on Terror”, the Asma Shirazi types want Pakistan to get embroiled in the void left by ISAF-NATO-US Forces.

Indian Consulates-supporting terror in Pakistan through TTP and the BLA

Najam Sethi and has gang on Geo want the people to equate the TTP with the Afghan Talibs. By doing this, they want Pakistan to wage war, not only the TTP but also the Afghan Talibs.

The agenda of these so called pro-war leftists is to push Pakistan into a never-ending war with the Talibs.

Bharati terrror to Pakistan from Afghanistan sent via TTP and BLA

The TTP is indirectly funded by the US, and India through Afghanistan’s secret agencies. After being kicked out of Swat, The TTP finds safe Havens in Kunar–right under the noses of ISAF and NATO. Karzai supports and funds the TTP to wage war on the Pakistani state. This is Karzai’s revenge for Pakistan’s support for the Talibs.

It should be very clear that Mr. Karzai spends millions of Dollars in supporting the TTP. Proof of this Karai policy can be seen in his clear threats to Pakistan. When the Pakistani government find Uzbeks, Tajiks and Afghans among the attackers, it does not assign them to Mr. Karzai–it simply ignores their affiliations.

This is Pakistan’s Terrorist Number One. The “TTP” (Terrorists Targeting Pakistan) have been active since 2004. It has been 7 long years since this foreign funded organization has been playing a game of blood and gore. There are reports that the government is holding talks and there was relative peace in the land. Now this US strike may eliminate the relative calm

It takes hundreds of thousands of Dollars to buy the explosives that are used against Pakistan at Kamra, Mehran and other bases. How does the TTP get the funding to launch these very expensive attacks? How does the TTP afford to pay its mercenaries? All this funding comes from Mr. Karzia’s henchmen–trained directly by Delhi.

For each bomb that explodes in Kabul, a bomb explodes in Pakistan.

Tajikistan map Indian bases-Indian Consulates-dens of Inequity send terror to Pakistan. Karzai provides safe havens to the TTP and funds them

Najam Sethi, Kamran Khan, Asma Shirazi, Saleem Shafi are busy hiding this truth.

Syria as a backdrop to the real war –Iran vs. the West. For Fisk, Syria is simply a rook in this game and Lebanon a pawn. All the kings horses come in from Hamas, and all the kings men come from the West trying to topple the Humpty called Asad.

The only good source of news out of Syria (the new Lebanon) –albeit with his biases–is Robert Fisk. He is one of the few reporters who has the guts to fly to Beirut and then drive to Damascus. Fisk knows the reality too.

…large numbers of “Syrian” rebels are in fact Lebanese. They are being brought home to Lebanon to be buried, as are the hundreds of Shia Hezbollah fighters dying alongside Syrian troops…Fisk

Fisk is the only one who has the integrity to talk to Afghan fighters in Syria, because he knows they are the best source of news. He is the only one who actually listens to and quotes speeches of Nasallah. Fisk is the only one –one a dying breed–or real journalists who actually risks his life to giver real news to the world. We fodly remember Dan Rather reporting from Vietnam, and Afghanistan with the same zeal. Today its Twitter and Facebook journalism.

• ‘Syria’s rebel army? They’re a gang of foreigners’ Robert Fisk
• 95% of ‘Syrian rebels’ not Syrians – Russia Today
• At least 93,000 people killed in Syria: UN
• Clinton agrees with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that Obama should be more forceful to support Syrian rebels. Politico
• Hezbollah’s war in Syria threatens to engulf Lebanon . This is potentially the greatest danger to Lebanon’s people since the 1975-90 civil war. Robert Fisk
• “Individuals have travelled to Syria from around the world – including from Canada – to fight the Syrian government. Some of these foreign fighters are suspected of joining local extremist groups. As a result, some experienced extremists from other conflict zones like Iraq and Afghanistan are now operating in Syria.” Canadian Government report
• The Plan: Send in forces to invade Syria, draw in Hizbullah, draw them out of Lebanon, engage them, and them stalemate them –destorying Iran’s only Arab ally in the Middle East. Cut of support for Hizballah

The reason that the Syrian conflict has gone on for so long is that Russia’s Putin is supporting Syria. Put is not doing for Asaad–he is doing it to defend his base in Syria. So far the discussions between the US and Russia have failed to resolve the issue. Moscow wants status quo, the US wants change. An Iranian supported, Moscow funded government in Damascus as anathema to the West. Other forces in the Middle East see this as a reason to eliminate the Alawites and bring in a government that is representative of the population.

According to German intelligence, more than 90% of the so called “rebels” in Syria are foreign mercenaries hired by the usual band of suspects.

• Senator McCain meets Mohammed Nour, a Sunni Muslim spokesperson for the Northern Storm Brigade
• President Bashar al-Assad’s troops in Syria are gaining ground. Radio Deutchwella
• The war is not about Syria, it’s about Iran. And the intention of the West is to effectively destroy Iran’s only Arab ally. Robert Fisk
•  “If Syria falls into the hands of America, Israel and Takfiris, the resistance will be besieged and Israel will enter Lebanon and impose its will.” Nasrallah
• “Hezbollah suspects Hamas has been teaching Sunni rebels in Syria how to fight”
• Hezbollah must leave Syria. Obama

Syrian Support Group Inc. (SSG) Director Of Government Relations (ie, terrorism lobbyist) Brian Sayers has already admitted in his BBC interview that their group is supplying NATO’s Free Syrian Army (FSA) terrorists with money and weapons

Sayer’s SSGI would like to be the “single source” conduit for all support for the so called “rebels”.

Daoud Khairallah’s video is interesting:

Hizballah is taking in a lot of casualties, and the war in Syria is destabilizing Lebanon and its base. With Palestinian-Hizballah fissures brewing up in the Palestinian refugee camps, Hibzallah may face consequences in Lebanon–for its foreign war.

Fisk brilliantly puts everything in perspective:

There are revolutions – out goes King Farouk, King Idris, the Iraqi monarchy, the Shah, and then in come more dictators; the Nassers and the Sadats and the Mubaraks and the Ben Alis and the Gaddafis. And the clergy. Or you have a “corrective revolution” like Hafez al-Assad’s in Syria.

Then you have another revolution and out go the Mubaraks and the Ben Alis and the Gaddafis and – well, Syria may turn out to be very different and Bahrain is safe for the moment (thanks to us) and Qatar and the Emirates and the Saudis are too busy cooking up the Syrian revolution to worry about their own revolutions

and for a roundup–we bank on Fisk again:

• Little Tunisia has one of the best chances of survival.
• Libya is divided up by the mafia who staged the revolution
• The Egyptian army rattles its swords (American-made).
• The army remains supreme in Algeria (with full support from us).
• The Revolutionary Guard Corps will continue to run Iran for the ayatollahs.

My favorite political commentary on these “revolutions” –read the book by Harold Robbins called the “Adventurers”–full of sex and violence the book accurately describes how every few years there is a new revolution–and nothing changes.

Peace sign with Pakistani flag

Mr. Fatmi’s “incident” with the Americans may have caused problems for him. It is said that Mr. Hoagland and Mr. Fatmi mixed it up when Mr. Hoagland was handed a demarche on the drones.

Rumors are that that Mr. Fatmi’s episode with the Deputy Ambassador of the US mission may have cost him his job. For the record, we never liked Mr. Fatmi. We thought of him as a self-aggrandizing opportunist of the Haqqani variety. His stance on protocol may have been more of a personality conflict than any inherent anti-Americanism inside him. Mr. Fatmi is a career diplomat and has no ax to grind with Washington–neither ideological nor policy wise.

The Nawaz government wants to quickly extricate itself from a possible issue with the US Embassy. If Fatmi is to be sacrificed, so be it. Mr Fatmi should have have known the fate of Mr. Bhutto, Qaddafi, and Saddam Husein–and they were the US friends.

Mr. Fatmi, he has a track record for almost making it. His Ambassadorship to Washington was derailed by Musharraf’s coup and Fatmi never forgave the military man for spoiling his Ambassadorship.

Mr. Fatmi is seen as “overly aggressive and opinionated on strategic issues.” So who replaces him?

Ms. Maleeha Lodhi, Syeda Abida Hussain are in line along with a couple of ex Pakistani Ambassadors to the US. If Mr. Sharif would gobble his ego, Senator Mushahid would make an excellent candidate

Stupidity Squared: PMLN’s Absurd threat to ban Google

Pakistan should look at leapfrogging wireless technologies–going beyond 3G and 4G and head towards the latest and fastest technologies. Samsung Electronics (005930) announced it had developed a new “5G” wireless standard that could be hundreds of times faster than today’s 4G networks. Islamabad should be looking at implementing 5G (seven years away).

Anusha—dont worry about becoming the moral police, take a hint:

• Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has a ridiculously fast landline system in France. In the U.S.
• Google (GOOG) Fiber has brought gigabit Internet to Kansas City, Mo., with Austin, Tex., and Provo, Utah

You can earn $2 Billion from 3G auction, and up to $5 Billion from 4G auction. 5G auction would fetch $10 billion in 5-7 years.

http://rupeenews.com/2012/12/3g-late-quickly-auction-4g-lte-5g-earn-2-billion/

Anusha Rahman the new IT minister has made the stupid threat to ban Google from Pakistan. No other country has attempted to do so, and this is the most absurd statement made by any major politician in the world.

Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL), in which Etisalat owns a 26 per cent stake, will “definitely” bid for a 3G license in an upcoming auction, said Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, Etisalat’s chief executive.

Auctioning off 4G, 4G LTE and 5G would bring in Billions of Dollars into the coffers of the government.

• 1G wireless was analog and supported the first generation of analog cell phones with the speeds up to 2.4kbps.
• 2G system, fielded in the late 1980s and finished in the late 1990s, was planned mainly for voice transmission with digital signal and the speeds up to 64kbps.
• 3G wireless system, was developed in the late 1990s and might be well-done in the late 2000s. 3G is not only provided the transmission speeds from 125kbps to 2Mbps, but also included many services, such as global roaming, superior voice quality and data always add–on.
• 4G and 4G LTE can theoretically be promised up to 1Gbps.
• 5G with incredible transmission speed with no limitation for access and zone size.

Rehman said that she may “keep its ban on YouTube”, but “also block Google altogether”… “as a last resort.” She plans to the “many alternative search engines available on the web.” Which search engine will conform to Reham’s quixotic hopes. Her charge of the Light Brigade against search engines will end as as badly as the Crimean war for Britian.

Rahman has no clue–her tweets make it abundantly clear that she has low IQ “We need technology, but without compromising on our moral, religious and ethical values.” Most Pakistanis point to the sheer absurdity of these bombastic statements.

She should be focusing on auctioning 3G and 4G which would bring in billions to the treasury, she should be concentrating on brining in an additional fiber optics line (Indonesian ‘Palappa Ring’, Nigeria’s ‘Btrain’, Australia’s National Broadband Network, India’s Bharat Broadband, etc) from the Middle East and one from China. She should be seetting up WiMax and universal WiFo for all major cities.

Here are some more good ideas

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/17638/what-anusha-rehman-should-do-for-information-and-communication-technology/

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-13/samsung-announces-new-5g-wireless-technology

The government should immediately put up a schedule to make money and keep pace with incoming technological advances. Beyond 3G is 4G, 4G LTE and then 5G (5th generation mobile networks or 5th generation wireless systems) and beyond 5G.

5G denotes the next major phase of mobile telecommunications standards beyond the current 4G/IMT-Advanced standards. Some of 5Gs new capabilities are still being grouped under the current 4G standards.

While 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE wireless networks will continue to evolve and be deployed the world is moving on. The researchers, hardware and software designers, defense and homeland security experts, public safety and law enforcement, spectrum regulators, and others are already hard at work defining the contours and understanding the implications of the next generation of wireless technologies. 5G includes Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), 5G security etc.

So what’s in those “reports”. In all likely hood its cell phone conversations, email interceptions, pictures, satellite zooms, hacking results, individual IP address monitoring, and just plain old reports. In other words, there is so much data, that its almost useless!

It all probability, the massive “big data” is stored, and then dissected and analyzed in case of an event. For example during the OBL raid on Abbotabad, the US had the capacity to monitor the phone calls of all major Pakistani leaders to determine if they were surprised to find OBL or if they already knew.

All major newspapers are breaking the story that “Boundless Informant” details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.

“Boundless Informant” should be called “Muslim Informant”:
14 billion reports from Iran
13.5 billion from Pakistan.
12.7 billion from Jordan
7.6 billion from Egypt
6.3 billion from India
and 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks

“Boundless Informant” focuses on counting and categorising the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message.

The Guardian, says: “The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country” something contradicted by Clapper, when asked during a Senate Committee.

At the very least this information will raise hackles in Islamabad, Tehran and Delhi too. Pakistan is already moving to the Chinese GPS system. Tehran and Amman may follow suit. Delhi will be hard pressed to find alternatives. European countries may also find this sort of surveillance too intrusive for comfort.

Daniel Markey has written an article trying to plug in India into the deal.

Smoker’s Corner? Not sure what Daniel Markey is smoking, but if we can guess from his writing its local ganja from Afghanistan or Pakistan. Daniel dear is insane or high if he thinks that he can change the bread-and-butter stances of states like North Carolina where textile imports take away jobs–just because India says so. I can just imagine Nicky Haley’s horn working for Pakistani farmers! Yeah! Right! She would be sent home next elections. India or no India, Washington is constrained by local politics to allow Pakistani imports. India itself faces similar barriers for getting its goods into the US and Europe. In fact when the EU gave some concessions to Pakistan’s flood hit areas, India was the biggest opponent and did not give up–’till it was overruled in the EU.

Markey is trying to fool people into thinking that India’s local politics would allow it to give up its own exports and allow Pakistani exports to take its place in the US. Imagine having to explain this to a Indian farmer in Amritsar–”you can stare while we allow Pakistani farmers to export to the US’. Markey is spreading malarkey. While it is always good to have good relations with neighbors, Markey has no clue how to do this.

A better proposal is to follow the EU model–not place tariffs on Pakistan textile goods. This would pass on the subsidies (lack of tariffs) directly to Pakistani farmers (so that they can compete with Carolina farmers). The Reconstruction Opportunity Zones never did materialize. Goods manufactured in the ROZ zones could ameliorate penury in FATA etc. The US private firms could help Pakistan construct dams, or build a dozen “American Universities” or set up a Marshall Fund for Pakistan to build 63,000 schools in Pakistan.

1) Economic Revival, Debt reduction and improvement in Education delivery
2) Energy Crisis and elimination of Circular Debt
3) Elimination of Patwari System and Thana Culture

Mr. Sharif’s recent demeanor shows a high level of stress at getting the hot seat.

The Pakistan Muslim League’s portfolio of the federal cabinet displays a high level of hubris in picking the 25 cabinet ministers. The PMLN has picked most of ministers from Northern Punjab’s GT road, most specifically Takht e Lahore. Most of the women from the reserved seats have come not from Punjab, not from Northern Punjab, but exclusively from Lahore.

1. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan: Interior Ministry with the additional portfolio of Anti-Narcotics. Nisar will have to improve the Law and Order by organizing and making the Police professional
2. Pervez Rasheed Information Minister. Rasheed will have to deal with the Fourth pillar of power in Pakistan today–the press.
3. Ishaq Dar will be Finance Minister with the additional portfolios of Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation. Dar screwed up a fully functional economy (with a high growth rate) when the PPP appointed him as the Economic Minister. Lets see if he revive the confidence that he helped destroy.
4. Khawaja Asif is being given the Ministry of Water and Power. The Department of Energy has to take a holistic view of coal, solar, coal, hydro and thermal energy. Not sure if Asif has the capacity to even look at Shale Energy, the mainstay of Asad Omar’s plan based on US technology
5. Zahid Hamid Law and Justice and Human Rights. Elimination of Targetted killings in Karachi and Balochistan. Does Hamid have a clue?
6. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will be Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources. Pakistan’s resources need to be redistributed. A lot can be done if Abbasi doesn’t dive into the treasures for himself. Abbasi is corrupt and extremely wealthy today.
7. Ahsan Iqbal is in charge of Ministry of Planning and Development. Nt sure wht this does? Does it plan future cities like Zulfiqarabad, or transform the country’s infrastructure from agriculture to industrial. Probably does nothing!
8. Khawaja Saad Rafiq will take charge of Ministry of Railways. This ministry should be devolved and eliminated. Railways should be a corporation. Invite Lalu Prasad to fix the railways or ask your old friend Shiekh Rashid.
9. Abdul Qadir Baloch States and Frontier Regions (Safron). This ministry should be devolved and eliminated and combined with the ministry of Kashmir Affiars
10. Sikandar Hayat Bosan Food Security. Bosan will probably do nothing in this very important ministry.
11. Birjees Tahir Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir Affairs. This ministry should be devolved and eliminated. Gilgit Baltistan should be a province with a Governor and not under the Ministry. Tahir will probably do nothing in this very important ministry.
12. Murtaza Jatoi Industry and Production. Jatoi will probably do nothing in this very important ministry.
13. Kamran Michael Port and Shipping. Gwader Port Qasim and new ports. A lot of potential, but expect little from Michael.
14. Sardar Yousuf will be the Minister of Religious Affairs. This ministry should be devolved and combined with the ministry of Minority Affairs Hajj and Auquaf should be a department
15. Sadruddin Shah Rashdi will hold the portfolio of Overseas Pakistanis. This ministry has done nothing and should be eliminated. An Overseas Pakistan shouldbe elected who can run the department efficiently
16. Anusha Rehman will be Minister for Information Technology (IT). A US IT Corporate leader should be running this ministry
17. Saira Afzal Health Science Regulation and Coordination.
18. Khurram Dastagir Khan Science and Technology. Science and Technology is not a minister’s job. This should be combined with IT and only a phD like Qadreer Khan should be running this department
19. Pir Muhammad Aminul Hasnat State Minister for Religious Affairs. This ministry should be combined with Hajj and Auqaf and minority issues

The State Minsiters are as follows:

1. Abdul Hakim Baloch State Minister for Railways.
2. Jam Kamal State Minister for Petroleum
3. Sheikh Aftab State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
4. Mian Balighur Rehman State Minister for Education
5. Amir Muqam Telecommunication Minister and
6. Shujaat Azeem will be the State Minister for Aviation.

Sartaj Aziz has been appointed prime minister’s Advisor for National Security and Foreign Affairs and Tariq Fatmi and Sanaullah Zahri will serve as Special Advisors to the prime minister.

President Zardari, on the advice of the newly appointed prime minister, has approved Munir A. Malik as the Attorney General of Pakistan.

Central Punjab Federal ministers  are: Ishaq Dar, Lahore, Rana Tanvir Hussain, Sheikhupura, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Sialkot, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Lahore, Zahid Hamid, Sialkot, Pervez Rasheed, Lahore, Kamran Michael, Lahore, Ahsan Iqbal, Narowal and Barjees Tahir is from Sheikhupura. The state ministers are: Usman Ibrahim from Gujranwala, Khurram Dastagir, Gujranwala, Saira Afzal Tarar, Hafizabad while Anoushe Rehman belongs to Lahore.

North Punjab: Four cabinet members — two federal ministers and two state ministers — are taken from north Punjab: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan from Rawalpindi and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi from Rawalpindi. State minister Sheikh Aftab Ahmed is from Attock while Pir Aminul Hasnat hails from Sargodha.

South Punjab Fed. Ministers: One state minister from south Punjab: Sikandar Bosan is from Multan and Mian Balighur Rehman represents Bahawalpur.

Reminiscent of the party machinery’s stance against Shireen Mazari, the “clarifications” are non-productive, and do not add any value either tot he party or the stature of its leader. In fact it is bad on the part of the party to issue such statements.

While is may be factually correct that “Fauzia Kasuri was not among the pioneering Founding Members of party: Imran Khan, Naeemul Haque, Ahsan Rasheed, Hafeez Khan (now in Canada), Mowahid Hussain Syed (now in US), Mahmood Awan (now in US), Nausherwan Burki (now in US).” The statement that “These seven members founded the Party in April 1996. No one else is a “founding member” while many may be very old members.”–may be legally correct but is not correct in spirit. Kasuri was advertised as a “Founding Member” when she was bringin in millions for the PTI and the Shaukat Khanum Hopital. Today she is being derided as a “Non-Founding Member”.

The PTI says “Ms Kasuri was disqualified from contesting the intra-party elections because she had not even begun the process of surrendering her US nationality at the time of the elections – 21st March 2013. She had been a member of the Constitution Committee of PTI as well as the central PSC and was well aware of the restrictions on dual nationals holding Party office,” read the statement.

This is sad, and the PTI is wrong to do this. The PTI should be focusing its efforts in getting Fauzia back –or it will impact its base in the US and its fund drives.

According to press reports the new PLMN Federal cabinet, is not diverse, ignores the other provinces, is almost exclusively from the Takht e Lahore, is very pro-American, and does not display an independent streak. Other members will be added, but this is the real cabinet—what “Abbajee used to all “Kitchen Cabinet”.

Senator Ishaq Dar would hold the ministry of finance. It is pedagogical to note that during the first stint of Ishaq Dar, and at the end of his rule there were only $250 million left in the Treasury. The sanctions had taken their bite, the the nationalization of the foreign accounts had destroyed investor confidence. If the Musharraf Government had not seen a colossal influx of Dollars due to the 2001 crisis, Pakistan would have faced a larger economic crisis. Dar had left the treasury empty.

It must be remembered that for all its faults, the government of Pervez Musharraf had set a course for economic progress for Pakistan. Depite the lack of democracy the fundamentals of the economy were solid and Pakistan was achieving a growth rate of around 7% and had actually touched 9% in 2004. It was Ishaq Dar, who on coming to power (with the PPP coalition) –for no reason at all (other than bad politics) began to bad mouth the economy. Within weeks the investors had lost confident and about $500 Billion were taken out in the worse “flight of capital” in Pakistan’s history. Trigger happy investors left in droves, and even Pakistani investors transferred the funds to Dubai. Thus began the viscous “circular debt” which exacerbated the energy crisis. With little electricity, the businessmen fled further impacting the downward trend. The PPP was hamstrung with debt and handicapped with incompetence.

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has been given a portfolio of the interior ministry. This is the same Ch. Nisar that had wanted to dump Nawaz Shrif and lead the PMLN government as Prime Minister during the Musharraf regime.

President Musharraf will returned to Pakistan under the banner of the APML

Indian Consulates-supporting terror in Pakistan through TTP and the BLA

Khwaja Asif would hold the ministry of water and power — in charge of the energy issues. Shahbaz Sharif had wanted this ministry–but Asif was given was ministry.

Nawaz Sharif is keeping the Foreign Ministry. Already the foreign office has been told to cool the rhetoric on Bharat. Kashmir has been sent to the back-burner. Relations with the US have been made of prime importance. This is a week about the Khalistan Movement. No a word from the Sharifs about Sikh suffering. Tariq Fatimi has been the foreign ministry’s advisor. Tariq Fatimi led a successful campaign against Mr. Musharraf. He is the old-school bureaucrat that understand the politics but will keep Pakistan subservient to the interests of foreign powers.

PM Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s first speech did not mention any specific projects or policies. Unlike Zulfiqar ALi Bhutto’s revolutionary 100 days–the cabinet is quiet about any developments. During the Bhutto days, there was a set calendar and every day and every week, new plans and policies were announced. Bhutto worked 16 hours a day, and his signature and comments were found on every file forwarded to him.

Nawaz Sharif is leaving for the obligatory official Umrah to meet King Abdullah and other Saudi officials. If he can avoid the IMF, and eliminate the circular debt–this will be a great achievement for him.

Mainstream US media is discovering and remembering Khalistan. Gunisha Kaur and Simran Jeet Singh have written a brilliant article in the Huffington Post.

• During the first week of June, Sikhs around the world commemorate a recent historical event: Operation Bluestar of 1984, a government-sanctioned military operation that resulted in countless casualties and the destruction of one of the most historically significant gurduaras, the Darbar Sahib of Amritsar (i.e., The Golden Temple).
• Sikhs constitute one of the many persecuted minority communities in India, and their commitment to standing for justice has made them a regular target of oppression for centuries.
• Approximately one decade prior to the massacre of 1984, Sikh leaders of Punjab drafted the Anandpur Sahib Resolution, a document that called for a social revolution within India, demanding rights for oppressed minorities such as women, lower castes and impoverished communities.
• The number of civilians murdered in Operation Bluestar remains unknown. While the most conservative estimates place the number of casualties around 675, independent and reputable sources estimate a minimum of 10,000 casualties. Joyce Pettigrew reports that a senior police officer in Punjab assessed the number of casualties as closer to 20,000.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gunisha-kaur/remembering-the-massacre-of-sikhs-in-june-of-1984_b_3377276.html

According to Sikh analysts:

“The Sikh Nation is a sovereign nation and is determined to reclaim its lost sovereignty. Since the annexation of Sikh state by the Britishers in 1849, many new geopolitical realities came to pass locally and around the globe. Khalistan is one of the outstanding issues the Sikh community of the subcontinent regards as legitimate struggle. From grandeur of Sikh rule in the subcontinent to bitter memories of Operation Blue Star and desecration of Akal Takht in 1984 (which resulted into a mutiny in Indian Military) Khalistan has remained a dream for the Sikhs of India as well as their strong Diaspora around the entire globe.”

Insurrection India:India cracks map of insurgency: Naxalites, Maoists, Seven Sisters, Kashmir, Punkjab, Tamil

The Sikh independence movement has been smoldering since Operation Blue Star that destroyed the Sikh Temple. Bharat’s government is panicking that the dormant Khalistan (separate Sikh homeland) movement has been resurrected by Sikh leaders, led by Shiromani Akali Dal’s (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann.

There were issues at the Golden Temple reconstruction–however the Sikhs have insisted on building a memorial for Bindrawale and his supporters.

The Sikhs are saying:

“Mr Sajjan Kumar ,who was allegedly involved in perpetuating a massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and other parts of India and promulgation of Sikh Congressional Caucus in the US, are new trend setters in Indian polity where revival of Khalistan movement in India and within Sikh Diaspora may be taking place with more vigour albeit with softer face.

With awareness of their glorious past and dynamic culture, the new Sikh generation has effectively used social media and international forums to voice their views in galvanising the Khalistan movement; that is why SJS Bhindranwale is their hero and Sujjan Kumar the ultimate villain.”

The Khalsa leaders again raised the Khalistan demand at the meeting. The SAD (Amritsar) chief said he “still supports the Khalistan movement and the Sikh community abroad also favours it.”

These events have lead to the statements by the Bharati leaders that blame Pakistan for everything.

http://www.sikh24.com/2013/06/unforgivable-aftermath-of-1984-operation-bluestar/#.Ua_whZK8o7g