Sir,

  1. Thirty-five percent of Pakistan’s underground and over ground water flows from Khalistan towards Pakistani Punjab. India’s attempt (S.Y.L. and Rajasthan Canals) to control and subjugate the Sikhs by depleting Khalistanis water resources is a double edged sword. In the long run, diversion of Khalistanis water will not only hurt the Sikhs but will reduce Pakistan to a desert by 2020 A.D. by which date Pakistan is expected to have a severe drinking water shortage. Anything that upsets the Machiavellian Indian plan deserves our support. Khalistan does that.
  2. India is not likely to agree to a U.N. sponsored plebiscite in Kashmir where 45% of Pakistan’s water originates. Neither will Delhi discuss, let alone settle, the Kashmir dispute under the framework of the Shimla Agreement. Hence, the geopolitics of the area has changed and the road to Srinagar, Jammu and Leh now passes through Amritsar, Chandigarh and the Terai. Khalistan, therefore, has become the only solution to the Kashmir problem and as such deserves unqualified support,
  3. The very survival of 120 million down trodden Muslims {left behind in caste ridden India in 1947) depends on their ability to form a joint front with the 18 million martial Sikhs, half a million of whom don Indian uniforms. Support for Khalistan, without a doubt, cements that Sikh/Muslim alliance.
  4. Any Muslim support for the gallant Sikhs and their cause of Khalistan heals historical wound on one hand and subverts 18% of Indias 1-2 million armed forces on the other. Subversion of Indian air force pilots, army officers and policemen creates a security problem (and force divider) for the fascist Brahmin Indian Ruling Elite viz.a.viz Pakistan and other neighbors like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives.
  5. An independent friendly sovereign Sikh state of Khalistan, on Pakistani Punjab’s border, will provide a shield to the city of Lahore, the very heart of Pakistan, presently existing under a sword of Damocles of an Indian invasion. Support for Khalistan comes automatically to anyone who loves Lahore.
  6. Enemy of my enemy is my friend the truism is very applicable to the Sikhs and Khalistan and as such deserving of support.
  7. Last but not the least the concept of Khalistan is a corollary of Quad-A-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s two nation theory. Like the concept of Pakistan, Khalistan (unlike other secessionist movements in South Asia) is based on a monotheistic religion. That explains why Quad-A-Azam, not known for theatrics, dramatized his approval of Khalistan by giving the 1947 Sikh leadership a blank piece of paper, which he had already signed, with a request that they fill in the terms under which an independent Sikh state could be created. Surely something approved by the father of the nation deserves our strong support.

 A.Sheikh

President

Kashmir Association of North America

Article extracted from this publication >> February 15, 1991