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IJSA June 2013 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE 2013 Volume 23 No. 1 Published By: The Sikh Educational Trust Box 724, 9768 - 170th St, NW EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA E-mail: <[email protected]> http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/IntJSA ISSN 1481-5435 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE 2013 ISSUE VOLUME 23 NO. 1 EDITORIAL ADVISORS Dr S S Dhami, MD Dr B S Samagh Dr Surjit Singh Prof Gurtej Singh, IAS Usman Khalid New York, USA Ottawa, CANADA Williamsville, NY Chandigarh President, Rifah Party J S Dhillon “Arshi” M S Randhawa Dr Sukhjit Kaur Gill Gurmit Singh Khalsa MALAYSIA Ft. Lauderdale, FL Chandigarh AUSTRALIA Managing Editor and Editor in Chief: Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon The Sikh Educational Trust Box 276, 9768-170th St, NW Edmonton, AB T5T 5L4 E-mail:[email protected] NOTE: Views presented by the authors in their contributions in the journal are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editor in Chief, the Editorial Advisors, or the publisher. SUBCRIPTION: Canadian $85.00 per anum plus 5% GST plus postage and handling (by surface mail) for institutions and multiple users. Personal copies: Canadian $30.00 plus & 5% GST plus postage and handling (surface mail). Orders for the current and forthcoming issues may be placed with the Sikh Educational Trust, Box 276, 9768-10 St, NW, EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA. E-mail: [email protected] The Sikh Leaders, Freedom Fighters and Intellectuals To bring an end to tyranny it is a must to punish the terrorist -Baba (General) Banda Singh Bahadar Sikhs have only two options: slavery of the Hindus or struggle for their lost sovereignty and freedom -Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and National Professor of Sikhism I am not afraid of physical death; moral death is death in reality Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Martyrdom is our ornament -Bhai Awtar Singh Brahma (General) We do not fear the terrorist Hindu regime. We are tireless: we shall return home before freedom of Khalistan -General Labh Singh The coward Hindu regime will never achieve our surrender -Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal One must have superior morality and lifestyle than the person he is going to punish -Bhai Harjinder Singh Jinda and Bhai Sukhdev Singh Sukha My real life will begin from the moment of my martyrdom for the Panth Bhai Amrik Singh Khalsa The siege of Darbar Sahib is the siege of the Sikh Nation -Justice Ajit Singh Bains No power on the earth can stop the freedom of the Sikh Homeland - -Simranjit Singh Mann, MP Even they dismember my body, I will not surrender before the terrorist police chief KP Gill -Bhai Kanwar Singh Dhami We are alive, we are awakened, we are struggling and we shall surely win -The Declaration of the Sikh Nation The lessons of Guru Gobind Singh ji must be followed. No Sikh, whether a politician, sarpanch or jathedar, should be followed if they do not openly and unequivocally speak out for a free and sovereign Khalistan and encourage a peaceful movement -Dr Gurmit Singh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC The goal of Khalsa Panth is the Sovereigny of Khalistan. The Akali government has backed away from it. It has lost its credibility with the Sikh Nation. Do not let these Akali leaders get away with it. It is our responsibility to liberate Khalistan. -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Freedom is never given, it is won through preservance and struggle by peaceful means -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Akali Party id dead -Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer The top priority of the Sikh Nation is to “Re-establish the Sovereignty of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, by peaceful means.” -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC PRINTED IN CANADA ISSN 1481-5435 i INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE 2013 Volume 23 No. 1 CONTENTS Sainthood and the Sikh Gurtej Singh 1 Chronology: Sikh members of parliament “rejected”…Indian parliament A S Sekhon 1 Afzal Guru's execution to invigorate…hegemony by high castes Usman Khalid 2 “Robbed” Punjab of August 15th , 1947…sending any Sikh to the gallows A S Sekhon 4 Hindu Hate: The sad plight of India's flock Father Raymond J DeSouza 5 NEWS, VIEWS, Short Articles, etc. Demonstration against India's Republic day…and Punjab Habib Yousafzai 8 Sangh oarivar is stoking fire at the India-Pakistan borders. Irresponsible as usual Andhi Tarun Vijay spits venom…. 9 Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana's statement, written and spoken, in a Patiala court February 4th, 2013 9 Press Release: Dal Khalsa Alliance and sister Sikh organizations condemn Afzal Guru's Hanging 10 Shining India: How to control rapes & killings Zaheerul Hassan 10 Hostile friends Ali Sukhanwar 11 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon comments…. 11 22nd Session of the United Nations: Human Rights Council: Dr Sekhon's participation 13 Sparks can ignite into flame Sami ullah Malik 14 22nd Session of the UN: Human Rights Council Item 4 A S Sekhon 15 22nd Session of the UN:HRC Item 3 A S Sekhon 15 Centre for Human Rights and peace advocacy UN:HRC Agenda Item 5 Dino Dean Gracious 16 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon's participation in Combating impunity 22nd UN:HRC 16 Canada again recognize Sikhs' right to propagate the idea of Khalistan Parmjit Singh 17 Dal Khalsa Alliance (USA) and its sister organizations submit Memorandum to the 22nd Session of the UN:HRC, March 2013 18 India police arrest 6 in new bus gang rape 22 India must withdraw its occupying forces…employ the first strike option Habib Yousafzai 23 Ms Laura Dolci-Kanan, NGO Liason Officer, OHCHR Civil Society Unit 23 Movement Against State Repression Chandigarh, Punjab 23 Dr Sekhon writes to Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji 24 Sirdar Gurmit Singh writes on the sad situation of the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee March 19th, 2013 25 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa 26 Tribute: Air Commodore M M Alam (1935-2013) Usman Khalid 27 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon responds to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla 28 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes further to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla 29 Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla responds to Manmeet Grewal 29 Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins' Gift to the Guru Khalsa Panth. Dr Sekhon writes to Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji 30 My arrest was psychological warfare Mohannad Ahmad Kazmi 54 REVIEW Failures of the Akali Leadership by Gurmit Singh, 1981, pp 309 Kavneet Singh 53 PUNJABI SECTION Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana's message to the Guru Khalsa Panth alias the Sikh Nation 31 Samlingi Vartare Prati Pahunch Gurtej Singh 33 Banni tan Gavo Guru Keri… Rajinder Singh Khalsa 34 Khalsa Raj: Budh Mat 'te Hunn Principal Giani Surjit Singh 45 Sardar Harbans Singh writes to Giani Gurbachan Singh, Custodian, The Akal Takht Sahib 48 Call for papers: Submit your contributions, via electronic mail using the MS Office 10 programme, of academic interest only on the Sikh philosophy, and the Sikh Affairs. The authors of the accepted contributions for publication will be notified. Note: Opinions and views expressed in the article(s) is of the author(s) and the International Kournal of Sikh Affairs, its management and publishers bear no responsibility. RELEASED: 18th APRIL, 2013 ii International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 SAINTHOOD AND THE SIKH Gurtej Singh, IAS & IPS (Formerly) Recently Sardar Mahinder Singh Khaira, a learned person and characterised by extreme humility. In particular the seeker must writer from UK asked me to clarify the Sikh position on the issue assume oneself to be a sinner while imploring Him to bestow of saint-hood. Reproduced below is what I wrote to him in reply. grace (nadar). The dedication to serve the Lord of Creation must Would you say I gave him the right advice? now become absolute, regardless of the human cost and worldly The theory of creation propounded by Guru Nanak envisages that consequences. It may lead to resisting evil physically and even to the Eternally Existent (Satnam) fashioned the universe out of martyrdom. This is liberation, release, summum bonum, jiwan- Himself/Herself and took abode in every atom of the created. (eh mukti or salvation. Those who receive his grace, of course, come jag sache ki hai kothri sache ka vich vaas) to reside eternally in the 'region of truth' (sachkhand). One part of the self-revelation was the revelation of attributes of At no stage (step) of spiritual development aimed at realising the the Ever True. This makes Him the original Guru (guide, teacher). full spiritual development does one become spiritually superior This discovery is the bedrock upon which the structure of the to any other seeker or being. One increasingly bows with humility faith, its theology and the spiritual pursuits prescribed for the as the fruit laden tree bends with each passing day. There is no seeker are raised. Knowing this is to enter the 'region of space for superior spirituality. The constant guidance that is knowledge' with its myriad nuances and elevating, inspiring necessary throughout the journey is provided by the scripture, the effects. The spiritual goal of the seeker, prescribed by Guru eternal Guru Granth and the company of seekers, the Guru Khalsa Nanak, ordained by the Creator, is the imbibing of the divine panth. Both the entities have been duly anointed and consecrated attributes until one completely merges into the Ultimate Reality in that position by the Guru himself, with divine sanction. like 'water into water.' This requires incessant striving to The ordained priesthood as well as the consecrated saints that are consciously shed the dross of material existence and the loving available in other traditions as intermediaries between man and intense urge to seek the merger.
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