Khalistani drug peddlers

The drug menace is ruining the future of Punjab, creating widespread addiction among the youth, and posing a significant threat to the stability of society. Punjab drug consumption is three times the national average. Not a day goes by without the recovery of a drug consignment. In June 2019, 532 kilos of heroin were recovered in a single seizure. This consignment, as well as an overwhelming proportion of all drugs in the state, is being pushed in from Pakistan, and Khalistani terrorist groups based in Pakistan are at the centre of this illegal trafficking. Narcotics smuggling is the main source of income for the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). Paramjit Singh Panjwar, the leader of the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) is another major drug smuggler, adding to his list of despicable crimes, including the murder of innocents in numerous acts of terrorism. Panjwar is an important conduit for the large-scale push of heroin into Punjab, and smuggling is one of his principal sources sources of revenue.

The Khalistani terrorists makes tall claims about fighting for the Faith, but they are bringing ruination on the youth of Punjab, including Sikh youth, flooding the state with drugs and trapping tens of thousands in the curse of addiction. Sikhism explicitly bars the use of any intoxicant, and promoting the trade in drugs violates every teaching of the Gurus. The Khalistanis involved in the drug trade, and in the ruination of the youth of Punjab, even as they project themselves as holier-than-thou Sikhs calling for their imaginary ‘land of the pure’ is nothing but hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy. These are criminals and pygmies who will go to any extent to promote themselves and make a few extra dollars, even as they destroy the lives of the common people, who they claim to ‘fight’ for, but more often murder in acts of terrorism, or destroy with their drug trade. The opulent lives of these gangsters in opulent bungalows and pent houses in Pakistani safe havens are underwritten with the blood and future of Punjabi men and women who fall prey to addiction. Everything that they say and do is against the basic tenants of Sikhism and of fundamental human morality.

The Khalistani vultures who wear garb of our religion have abused and misused our religion for their own personal benefits. The aim of these self-declared warriors of faith is to create a generation who are weak in their body and minds. These men and women can then be exploited for criminal purposes to create an army of expendable criminal cohorts, who can then be used to create unrest in Punjab and drag it back into the darkness of terrorism. Every one of us, Sikh and non-Sikh, in Punjab has to be on guard against these unscrupulous and exploitative manipulators. We must fight the Khalistani terrorists and drug traders, and try to bring back our youth from the nightmare of addiction.

Tarn Taran : Another alarm

The Tarn Taran blast has again underlined the continuing vulnerability of the state to radical violence by a microscopic minority of pro-Khalistani supporters. The minority Khalistani elements, safely tucked away in ISI havens and in far off countries in the Americas and Europe, want Sikh blood to flow to inflate their egos and feed their sense of self-importance. After 15 years of relentless bloodletting, Punjab saw the defeat of the Khalistani movement in 1993. However, continuing attempts by these elements, who have been insulated from the ground realties of Punjab, are yet to accept that the people of Punjab have rejected their murderous ways. We are not willing to pay with our flesh and blood for their twisted ideology.

The vitriolic Canada and US based Khalistani’s as well as Pakistan supported Khalistani elements risk nothing. They have no roots here. They won't lose a family member to acts of violence. All they would do is tweet a megabyte of nonsensical comments, in the safety of their well-insulated homes. The overseas Khalistani elements are today exploiting our vulnerability and our faith. These Overseas-based dance monkeys of the ISI offer funding to conduct violence and do sacrilegious acts to disrupt communal harmony in Punjab. Some Sikhs, who would otherwise be ready to earn from a honest day’s work, fall prey to these sacrilegious scammers and end up having to pay with long spells in jails.  We also have to remember that, no matter what our real or perceived grievances are, taking another humans life can never be justified. As true Sikhs we have to remind ourselves that we have to be the voice of Sikhism and not like those braying with blood lust.

Let us remind ourselves that those channelling weapons and drugs into our state have only one aim in mind – elimination of the Sikh community, which is a principal beam of support for India. They want to drag Punjab into a continuing vortex of violence which will drown our people in blood. What the Pakistanis want is a mirror image of themselves in their neighbourhood and the first step for them is to see us killing each other like they have been doing for the past over 70 years.