Zahair Kashmiris Soft Target and its contents in their entirety were accepted by the majority of Sikh community; hundreds of copies of the same were sold in Sikh Gurdwara’s. I would like to quote a few lines from the same in respect of Talwinder Singh Parmar who was recently killed by Indian Security Forces in an encounter at Indo-Pakistan Border.
.. the RCMP and CSIS investigating the activities of the radical Sikh movement wondered Parmars motives… Parmar may have been an unwitting puppet of the Government of India.
there seemed solid grounds for being suspicious the Babbar Khalsa leader. Parmar had a wealthy backer in the person of Ripuduman Singh Malik… less than three months before the assault on the Golden Temple Maliks company received a $2million loan from the State Bank of India (Canada) Lid. Malik had signed single-demand debenture with a bank owned by the government of India: At the time he was among those who helped support Parmars family and paid legal expenses for the high priest…. It was unusual to say the least for the Indian Government to cooperate financially with an individual who supported a man like Parmar while the same government was describing the high priest as a brutal Khalistani terrorist.
the Police had persistently questioned him (Parmar) about the source of his wealth he said he had bought and sold houses… in 1972-73 he had owned a large nine-bedroom house which he sold This was two years after he came to Canada seeking work.
Parmar s associates could visit India with ease despite his fiery views about Khalistan. Any other Sikh… with slightest blemish” would be lacked up as soon as he entered India
“CSIS based its thesis on a profile-of Parmar put together by its agents and an analyst… this man despite his Sikh spiel was being used to actually destroy the expatriate Sikh movement.
Mr. Parmar totally vanished from the scene nearly at the same time the Soft Target started rolling out of the press. He never refuted the allegations rather nobody knew where he had been hiding till current encounter in which was killed in the company of two Pakistani agents and a car full of money and arsenal.
Now most regrettably it is noted that the Late Mr. Parmar is being hailed as a Shaheed Mamyr in certain Sikh quarters. There has been talk of celebrating a Saheedi Divas Martyrdom Day in some prominent Sikh places to honor him and to prey for his soul
The observance of Shaheedi Divas of a shady or a nonchalant character by a Sikh congregation depicting him as a representative of Sikh community makes a mockery of whole movement and demeans and tarnishes the image of real Shaheeds.
I am writing this as an earnest member of the Sikh community and an ardent devotee of Dixie Ghurughar Toronto Canada.
Pritpal S Bindra Canada.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 11, 1992
