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Harper loaded cabinet with two Sikh MinistersThe economy was prom-

ised to be his main prior-

ity as Stephen Harper

revealed his first major-

ity government cabinet

today, consisting mostly

of known individuals.

The size of cabinet was

increased by one seat

with a total of 39, which

ties Harper’s cabinet

with those of Brian Mul-

roney and Paul Martin.

This decision did not

go without disapproval from

critics who felt Harper is

being a hypocrite by imple-

menting a strict program to

cut billions of dollars in gov-

ernment spending, all the

meanwhile increasing the

size of his cabinet. Harper

did not agree with the criti-

cism and responded by say-

ing, “"I think it's important to

know when you're talking

about austerity, that this gov-

ernment has reduced minis-

terial budgets significantly.

So the question here is not

cost, the question is making

sure that we have a ministry

that is broad, representative

of the country and tries to use

people's talents to the maxi-

mum."

Failed candidates,

two of whom quit Senate

jobs to run for the Conserva-

tives were among the three

senators chosen by the PM.

Those returning to the Senate

include Larry Smith, Fabian

Manning and former cabinet

m i n i s t e r

Josee Verner, who lost her

seat in the NDP sweep over

Quebec.

Harper waited until

after his swearing-in news

conference to announce the

Senate appointments, men-

tioning again that the econ-

omy will continue to be his

top priority.

"The mandate given

to us by the voters of Canada

on May 2 allowed us to focus

on the economy and more

generally on stability. If the

economy is our top priority,

we will be working very hard

on all the priorities we cam-

paigned on," he said.

Finance Minister Jim

Flaherty and Defence Minis-

ter Peter Mackay are among

the veterans who hang on to

their posts. Meanwhile John

Baird will become the na-

tion’s top diplomat as foreign

affairs minister as he replaces

Lawrence Cannon, who was

defeated in the election.

Bairds position of govern-

ment House leader will be

passed on to Peter Van

Loan.

Another big move con-

sisted of Tony Clement

leaving the industry port-

folio to become treasury

board president, while

Christian Paradis takes

over his prior position. As

the government is look-

ing to reduce its huge

deficit, Clement will face

challenges in cutting billions

of government spending dol-

lars.

Some of newcomers

included Peter Penashue, the

sole Conservative from New-

foundland and Labrador who

will take the role of intergov-

ernmental affairs minister.

Penashue will also be the

first ever Innu in cabinet.

Toronto’s Joe Oliver will be

taking on the position of nat-

ural resources minister.

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Courageous Journalism02 May 19, 2011

The case for an independent and sovereign Sikh state

The concept of Sikh sovereignty and a

separate state for the Sikh’s based on their race

and nationality is not a new concept. It is steeped

deep in the Sikh religion and its history. The first

Guru of the Sikh’s Nanak made a revolutionary

statement in the 16th century when he founded the

Sikh religion and gave it its separate and unique

character, spelling out its religious, political, so-

cial, cultural and economic characteristics, which

would be the pillars of the new religion. At that

period of time Hinduism and Islam were the two

leading religious forces in the Indian

sub-continent.

There were certain ills that these two reli-

gious forces suffered from, that being a rigid caste

system, orthodoxy, fanaticism, intolerance which

was impractical, all of which could not be em-

braced by the poverty stricken populace. Hin-

duism had its scriptures in the Sanskrit language

and Islam’s divinity lay in Arabic, both of which

could not be understood by the common man,

which led to bigotry and intolerance for those who

did not embrace these two religions or the ones

within it who could not understand the doctrines

and practices of these two religious orders, the

texts of which were in Sanskrit and Arabic.

Thus the founder of the Sikh religion Guru

Nanak declared in a historic and revolutionary

statement that the Sikh’s were neither Hindu nor

Muslim. Eversince this statement the Sikh’s have

been at the persecution front at the hands of both

the Hindu and the Islamic religion. As such from

the 16th century when the Sikh religion was

founded, the Sikh’s have borne the brunt of

tyranny and brutality, besides the total segregation

like apartheid at the hands of these two religious

orders, which in history have held political sway

from Delhi.

The Sikh V Guru Arjan was martyred by

the Moghal Emperor Jahangir and IX Guru

TegBahadar suffered martyrdom at the hands of

Moghal Emperor Aurangzeb. X Guru Gobind

Singh turned the Sikh’s into a martial religion to

fight the tyranny of the state. The VI Guru Har-

gobind brought about equality for the downtrod-

den Sikh’s as during the Muslim rule from Delhi

no non-Muslim was allowed to ride a horse, keep

a sword or hunt with a hawk. Guru Hargobind or-

dained that his Sikh followers would adorn all

these three prohibited symbols, which then sym-

bolised royal power besides discriminated against

non - Muslim’s. He also built the Akal Takht

(timeless throne) opposite the holy Darbar Sahib

(Golden Temple) at Amritsar, which signified that

the Sikh Guru and the Sikh’s were totally equal to

the Muslim’s and their Emperor who sat on his

throne in Delhi. All these were significant events

in Sikh history but they won the jealousy of the

Hindu’s who were more in number

but could not defy their subjugation

to Muslim rule. The Sikh’s thus

came to be caught in a wedge between two pow-

erful religious orders Hinduism and Islam. Both

turned against the Sikh’s as Sikhism defied them

by revolting against the status quo and won for it-

self equality and self-respect.

Though X Guru Gobind Singh did not see

the day the Sikh’s set up the first Sikh state in his-

tory under Baba Banda Singh Bahadar (1710-

1714), the Guru’s chosen military leader and

under him the Sikh’s for the first time in history

shook the might of the Sikh Empire to its founda-

tions. Baba Banda Singh Bahadar abolished feu-

dalism, giving land to the tiller, allowed free and

secular worship and set up the first national state.

These were the awards to Europe by the French

Revolution of 1789. Later, though the Moghal

Empire did survive, but it was only in name and

awaited another conquest of another Sikh intrepid

leader SardarBeghel Singh who occupied Delhi,

making the surviving Moghal dynasty eat a hum-

ble pie. If we see all the historic Gurudwaras

(places of Sikh worship) in Delhi, these are the

gifts of SardarBeghel Singh’s conquest of Delhi

and the vanquishing of the Moghal dynasts. The

present Civil Secretariat in Delhi which houses the

Union Government, Parliament House and the

Presidential Palace have all been built on land be-

stowed by SardarBeghel Singh for the Sikh Gu-

rudwara’s. All the above three mentioned edifices

are built on the land given to RaqabganjGurud-

wara where a Sikh patriot BhaiLakhi Shah Vanjara

cremated the martyred body of IX Guru TegBa-

hadar. The Sikh’s can still claim all the land on

which the Civil Secretariat, House of Parliament

and the Presidential Palace are built.

After Baba Banda Singh Bahadar, the Sikh

polity formed twelve bands or tribes called

Missals. All these were confederates under a Sikh

leader who carved out territories of political influ-

ence in the Panjab, in a period when Ahmad Shah

Abdali ruled from Afghanistan and Panjab became

one of its provinces. The Missal heads in their re-

spective areas of occupation established a rule of

their own for which the subjects of the area paid a

tithe so that they could be protected from the in-

roads of the marauding Muslim Afghan’s and their

Panjabi Muslim warlords. This system worked so

well for the Missal heads that they began to be re-

spected both by the Muslim and Hindu populaces

of their respective Missals. Thus it was only a

question of time that the Sikh’s would over throw

Muslim Afghan and Moghal rule all over the Pan-

jab. This gave rise to the second Sikh state in his-

tory when Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1799 rode

into Lahore along with his other Missal confeder-

ates and founded the Sikh Empire which was to

wrest the Peshawar and Kashmir provinces of

Afghanistan and incorporate them in the Sikh Em-

pire known as the Lahore Darbar. In 1843, the

troops of the Lahore Darbar conquered Ladakh

from Tibet, which was then a suzerainty of China.

If we see the current Durand Line, which divides

present day Islamic Pakistan from Afghanistan it

is the daredevilry of the Sikh Generals and the

Sikh troops whose artillery was looked after and

commanded by Muslim Generals.

In 1849, Great Britain over ran the forces

of the Lahore Darbar and the treaty that was

signed at that period between the Sikh’s and the

British laid down that the Sikh’s would be restored

to sovereignty once their infant Maharaja Daleep

Singh came of age. From the Sikh treasury at La-

hore, the then Governor General Lord Dalhausie

stole the famous Kohinoor diamond and sent it as

a gift to his monarch Queen Victoria. The British

did not keep their treaty promise of restoring Sikh

sovereignty.

As such when the British partitioned their

Indian Empire on communal lines, giving Islamic

Pakistan to the Muslim’s and THIS (Theocratic

Hindu Indian State) to the Hindu’s, they left the

Sikh’s high and dry, a perfidious act for as per the

Anglo-Sikh treaty of 1849 they were legally and

constitutionally bound to give the Sikh’s a slice of

the cake. Some of our traitorous Sikh leaders who

sold themselves to the Hindu Congress Party and

inveigled themselves into partnership with it got

a written promise for the Sikh’s that once the

British left their colony in India, in the words of

Jawaharlal Nehru they would be given a territory

of their own where they could feel the glow of

freedom. This promise of the Hindu leadership

was also broken and their written Constitution of

1950 in its Article states that the Sikh’s are a part

of the Hindu religion. Since 1947 attempts have

been made by the Hindu state to gobble up and

(Cont.. to next page)

A buffer between three nuclear-armed states – Islamic Pakistan,Communist China and THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State)

Simranjit Singh Mann

May 19, 2011 03 Courageous Journalism


absorb Sikhism into the om-

nivorous belly of Hinduism.

The legislated 1909 Anand

Marriage Act was not ac-

cepted as legal tender in

1947 and since then the

Sikh’s upon marriage get a

certificate under the Hindu

Marriage Act. This is an

anathema to the Sikh’s. Sim-

ilarly the 1925 legislatedShi-

romaniGurudwaraParbandha

k Committee Act, which

gave birth to the Sikh Parlia-

ment the first ever-legislated

Parliamentary statute in Asia

is also not respected by THIS

(Theocratic Hindu Indian

State). Elections to this

House are due every five

years but since 30th August

2009 the Sikh Parliament has

lain as a Lame Duck Parlia-

ment and elections have not

been held since then which is

the primary duty of the

Union Home Ministry in the

Government of THIS (Theo-

cratic Hindu Indian State) in

Delhi. However this defunct

and lame duck Parliament of

the Sikh’s is allowed by the

Hindu state to pass its annual

budget, give grants and incur

other expenditures which are

never allowed in a function-

ing Parliament in any West-

ern democracy.

Since 1982 the Sikh’s

have faced the crime of

genocide and in 1984 the

Union government in Delhi

headed by Indira Gandhi

with the approval of the ultra

right wing Hindu nationalist

party the BJP and its equally

right wing organisation RSS

ordered THIS (Theocratic

Hindu Indian State) Army to

march into the holy precincts

of the most sacred Sikh

shrine the Darbar Sahib

(Golden Temple) at Amritsar

along with 36 other sancti-

fied Sikh religious shrines

under the marching orders

code named – Operation

Bluestar. In this Operation

some twenty thousand

Sikh pilgrims of whom

many were the elderly,

women and children were

slaughtered in a most

bloody and wicked blood

bath when the atrocious

Hindu Army used tanks,

artillery, mortars and Spe-

cial Forces. The ancient

Sikh treasury

(Toshakhana) in the Dar-

bar Sahib and the Sikh

Reference Library were

raided by the Hindu Army

and ancient and valuable

artifacts looted and taken

away as war booty, which

have still not been re-

trieved by the Sikh’s or the

Hindu state handed back

to the Sikh’s. It is much

like Lord Dalhausie’s raid

on the Sikh treasury in

1849 when the Kohinoor

diamond and other valu-

ables were taken away and

whereas the former adorns

the crown of the British

monarch, others rest in the

British museum in Lon-

don. Since Operation

Bluestar there has not

been any abatement of

state terrorism against the

Sikh peoples and the

Hindu state has perpe-

trated heinous and evil

crimes of genocide, war

crimes and crimes against

humanity with impunity,

with not a single arrest

having been made so far

or the scalawags and

génocidaires being sent

and put up for trial at the

International Criminal

Court at the Hague. Only

recently on 14th March

2011 a Sikh patriot

BhaiSohan Singh was bru-

tally tortured to death in

the infamous torture cen-

tre known as State Special

Operation Cell (SSOC)

Amritsar by the officer In-

chargeManwinder Singh

AIG and Inspector Nirmal

Singh but with impunity so

far. We wonder sometimes

when the West is fighting ter-

rorism and asking all to join

its fight against terrorism

(Cont.. to page no 7 )

The Honorable Tim Uppal, Sikh MP

from Alberta, is now a state minister for

Democratic Reform. It is a ministry we

often don`t hear too much about, so I

wanted to know more about it. I peeked

at the website of the ministry and this is

what I found:

Canada's New Government has

an ambitious and extensive legislative

plan to strengthen accountability in

government through democratic re-

form.

• First, we are eliminating the influence

of big money in the political process by

regulating the financing of political par-

ties.

• Second, we've introduced legislation

to modernize the Senate to make it

more democratic, more accountable,

and more effective.

• Third, we are enhancing our electoral

system to make it more responsive, fair

Courageous Journalism04 May 19, 2011

For a man on the run, Osama bin

Laden seemed to do very little run-

ning. Instead, he chose to spend

long stretches -- possibly years -- in

one place and often in the company

of his family.

As details emerge of bin

Laden's era as America's most-

wanted man, it

appears he was often going in one

direction while the American-di-

rected hunt was moving in another.

Pakistani authorities are pulling to-

gether a close-up view of bin

Laden's final years from sources

such as his three widows, including

one who says she never left the

upper floors of the walled com-

pound in Abbottabad where bin

Laden was killed. But a far more

sweeping narrative has taken shape

from reports of Guantanamo Bay in-

terrogations posted by WikiLeaks in

late April just before the American

raid on bin Laden's compound.

These documents -- in addi-

tion to interviews by The Associated

Press -- indicate bin Laden relied on

Afghan allies for years after the

Sept. 11 attacks and possibly spent

relatively limited time in Pakistan's

rugged tribal areas, which had been

the much-discussed focus of U.S. in-

telligence and military resources in

the manhunt. It also suggests that

bin Laden -- either by design or

chance - could have taken advantage

of shortcomings in America's ability

to gather timely leads on his move-

ments or get credible sources within

the patchwork of tribes and militia

factions in Afghanistan and Pak-

istan.

In perhaps the most striking

dead-end chase, U.S. officials and

others strongly believed bin Laden

slipped across the border in Pakistan

after dodging capture from an as-

sault on Tora Bora in eastern

Afghanistan in November 2001.

But he was still in Afghanistan and

galloping away on horseback in the

opposite direction toward the north-

eastern Kunar province, according

to bin Laden's aide Awar Gul, who

was arrested in December 2001 and

eventually sent to Guantanamo. But

according to the documents released

by WikiLeaks, Gul gave the

information to interrogators from

2002 to 2006 -- apparently too late

to produce any active leads. It also

was assumed bin Laden traveled

light, accompanied by a few guards

who were most likely Arabs. But it

turns out he kept close to his family

-- or at least part of it -- and his

most-trusted courier was a Kuwaiti-

born Pakistani who went by the nom

de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti,

according to U.S. documents and in-

vestigators.The discrepancies be-

tween the Western assumptions and

the apparent details on bin Laden's

movements go back to the Sept. 11

attacks. Bin Laden didn't go un-

derground, as widely believed by in-

telligence agencies. He stayed in

Kandahar, mingled with his Arab

fighters and met Taliban leader

Mullah Mohammed Omar, accord-

ing to an AP interview with a for-

mer Taliban intelligence chief. The

official, Mullah Mohammed Khak-

sar, said bin Laden left Kandahar

for the capital Kabul after the start

of U.S.-led attacks to oust the Tal-

iban on Oct. 7, 2001. Bin Laden

stayed in Kabul until Nov. 13 when

the Taliban fled and the U.S.-allied

Northern Alliance swept into the

city. The battle then moved to the

Tora Bora outpost, where bin Laden

was thought to have taken refuge.

The warren of caves that run through

the Tora Bora mountains was famil-

iar to bin Laden, who had used them

as cover while taking part in the

U.S.-backed fight against the Soviet

occupation in the 1980s. As the

Americans blasted Tora Bora with

bunker-busting bombs, bin Laden

escaped with the help of lieutenants

for a local warlord, Maulvi Yunus

Khalis, who had fought with bin

Laden against the Red Army, ac-

cording to officials including

Michael Scheuer, former CIA point

man in the hunt for the al-Qaida

chief. In some ways, bin Laden's

Tora Bora breakaway was an inside

job, Scheuer told the AP. The war-

lord's aides who helped bin Laden

escape also were working for coali-

tion forces at the time. According to

Gul's interrogation report, bin Laden

rested at Gul's home in Jalalabad --

about 25 miles (40 kilometers)

northeast of Tora Bora -- after evad-

ing U.S.-led forces on the mountain.

He was accompanied by his No. 2,

Ayman al-Zawahri, the report says.

"According to an Afghan govern-

ment official UBL (Osama bin

Laden) and al-Zawahri stayed at the

detainee's (Gul's) to rest while es-

caping from hostilities against the

U.S. and coalition forces in Tora

Bora," the interrogation documents

said. The interrogation summary

also says then bin Laden set off on

horseback -- not toward Pakistan,

but northeast toward Kunar. The al-

most inaccessible area, close to the

Pakistani border, was a stronghold

of pro-Taliban forces and other

militias. Gul also accompanied bin

Laden to Kunar, where they met

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hek-

matyar and his military chief Kash-

mir Khan, who "provided protection

for the group before they continued

to an unknown location at the re-

quest of Hekmatyar," the interroga-

tion report said. Small units of U.S.

special forces already had a few out-

posts in the Kunar region during the

Tora Bora battle. But slipping past

the few American soldiers would

have been easy.

Bin Laden hid in afganistan after escaping Tora Bore, later helped into Pakistan

and effective. While we have accom-

plished a lot to date, we will continue to

move forward with our plan to

strengthen accountability through dem-

ocratic reform.

After reading this, I wonder

how this is relevant. Just today Prime

Minister Stephen Harper appointed three

failed Conservatives to Senate.

Senate that Harper wanted to re-

form, that Harper wanted to be demo-

cratic and elected by the people of

Canada and not appointed by the ruling

party.

It puzzles me!

Why appoint a state minister or

even have a ministry for that matter,

when you want to use this as a political

hideout, where rejected politicians can

hide and enjoy government perks?

In April 2010, a press release

found on the same website says:

“Canadians have been clear they want a

modern, accountable and elected Sen-

ate”, said Minister of State Fletcher.

“Prime Minister Harper and this govern-

ment are committed to a democratic

Senate, elected by the voters.”

The release went on to say “Our

Government believes Canadians should

have a say in that represents them in the

Senate,” said Senator Boisvenu.

In the same press release I read,

“The Senate has an important role in our

parliamentary system and its members

perform valuable work. But it has a

credibility problem that is linked di-

rectly to its method of selection. People

want, and expect, their representatives

to be chosen democratically,” added

Senator Runciman.

It means the Harper Govern-

ment is of the view that the Senate is un-

democratic and it needs reform.

Meanwhile Prime Minister Stephen

Harper went ahead to appoint those who

were rejected by the Canadian people,

yet Harper puts them on Government

payroll.

Good Luck Tim Uppal!!

Sukhminder Singh Hansra

[email protected]

By Kathy Gannon

Democratic Reform; It Puzzles me!!!

05 May 19, 2011 Courageous Journalism

by Dr. Amarjeet Singh

The world’s twenty eight million

Sikhs are outraged at the jingoistic

attitude currently being exhibited by

many influential Indian opinion-

makers like the former Indian foreign

minister Yashwant Sinha, who pub-

licly demanded in early May that the

Indian Armed forces, lance across the

Pakistan/India border, by carrying

out ‘Abbottabad-like’ surgical strikes

inside the territory of nuclear-armed

Pakistan – in other words play ‘nu-

clear marbles’. People like seventy

three years old Yashwant Sinha, a

morally repugnant ‘hawk’, an influ-

ential, ‘Bihari’ Brahmin, who is a re-

tired Indian Foreign Service/ Indian

Civil Service officer, who later be-

came India’s Finance minister and

Foreign minister (in the Neo-Nazi

BJP governments in the late nineteen

nineties and early 2000) has gone

loco. There seems to be no other log-

ical explanation for his outburst!

Yashwant Sinha’s threats were given

full publicity by the Indian media.

Read New Delhi-datelined

report in India’s leading newspaper,

Times of India headlined, “Yashwant

backs Abbottabad-like strike by

India”. According to various Indian

media reports Yashwant Sinha, in

early May, called for Abbottabad-like

surgical strikes in Pakistan as he hit

out at the US for differentiating be-

tween 9/11 and the November 2008

Mumbai attacks. He said India would

be well within its rights to carry out

such operations against alleged ter-

rorists like Dawood Ibrahim and oth-

ers as it was a victim of terrorism

coming out of Pakistan. Yashwant

Sinha was obviously responding an-

grily to the splendid stand taken by

the United States State Department

spokesman who, according to a

Washington/Islamabad datelined re-

port in the Chandigarh-based

newspaper,

THE TRIBUNE, headlined,

“No parallel between 9/11 & 26/11:

US”, refrained from ‘drawing a par-

allel’ between the horrible 9/11 ter-

rorist attacks on the U.S. (from the

air) and the 26 November, 2008, at-

tack by sea, on Mumbai, by ten sui-

cidal terrorists aboard a slow-moving

dinghy who managed to evade the

world’s fifth largest Navy - the In-

dian Navy - to its eternal shame, dur-

ing their three hundred mile journey

through the Arabian Sea to Mumbai.

Sneaking into India or Pakistan by

boat is just as simple as lancing

across the land borders. The State de-

partment spokesman declined to

commit if India had the right to go on

a ‘hot pursuit’ against the 26/11 sus-

pects in Pakistan like the American

strike that killed Osama bin Laden in

Abbottabad, the master-mind of the

September 2001 terrorist attacks on

the United States. According to the

above report published in the

Chandigarh-based TRIBUNE news-

paper, the U.S. State department

spokesman, Mark Toner, had said

that, “I don’t want to speculate too

broadly about an operation that was

clearly unique in the history of the

United States and the history of the

world, where we had an individual

who was possibly the most wanted

man in the world and had perpetrated

heinous crimes against not only

American citizens but citizens

around the globe.” Mark Toner, was

responding, according to the above

mentioned Tribune report, to a ques-

tion which asked “if the U.S.

policy of ‘right to self de-

fense’ applies to other countries in-

cluding India as the perpetrators of

the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks

are roaming freely inside Pakistan?”

Mark Toner responded by saying

that, “I don’t want to draw too

broadly a picture here. What we have

said all along is that this was an indi-

vidual (Osama Bin Laden) where and

when we had actionable intelligence

against him, we will act upon that be-

cause we believed he was a direct

and imminent threat to the United

States.” Toner had further said that he

was aware of all those ‘terrorism re-

lated’ cases in India including the at-

tack on the Indian Parliament and the

Mumbai terrorist attack”.

Yashwant Sinha ought to

have his ageing senile head examined

for making such a stupid, thought-

less, ‘hate-filled’ suggestion which if

carried out WILL definitely result in

immediate retaliation by nuclear

armed Pakistan whose divided lead-

ership, no matter how weak and how

confused, will not hesitate to bare its

‘nuclear fangs’ and lance across in

retaliation to the nearest ‘sexy’ Indian

targets most of them unfortunately,

located within easy reach, in the bor-

der state of Indian occupied Punjab -

the Sikh Homeland. Members of

Pakistan’s current leadership may

suffer from an inferiority complex

viz. a viz. the world’s only super

power, the United States, but they

definitely have a psychohistory of a

thousand years which has given them

a superiority complex viz. a viz.

India’s morally repugnant minority

Brahmin/ Bania cowardly ruling

elite. A nasty armed confrontation or

trying to ‘lance’ across their borders

by India and Pakistan will therefore,

only bring death and destruction to

the population of the border state of

Indian occupied Sikh-majority Pun-

jab which will become a battlefield,

a la the 1965 India-Pakistan war. Any

hostilities, specially those in which

(conventional and non conventional)

missiles are used, will surely endan-

ger Sikh religious shrines specially

the holy Darbar Sahib (known as the

Golden Temple in the Western world)

which is located less than fifteen

miles from the Pakistan border in the

city of Amritsar.

According to another report

published in the Chandigarh-based

TRIBUNE newspaper by P. Sharma,

headlined, “Operation Geronimo

dominates Strike Corps-IAF exer-

cise”, the Indian Army High Com-

mand has already taken up Yashwant

Sinha’s suggestion to heart. It has

deployed it’s 2nd Strike Corps,

(about sixty thousand men also

known as the Kharga Corps, based in

Ambala) to practice ‘Operation

Geronimo-type’ operations’ during a

joint exercise currently underway

with the Indian Air Force, in very hot

45* Celsius (112* F) foul and very

hot weather, in North Rajasthan and

Sikh Punjab, near Pakistan’s ‘softun-

der- belly’. Obviously it is a crude at-

tempt to intimidate troubled

Pakistan’s weak leadership. The ex-

ercise codenamed ‘Vijayee Bhava’ is

the first amongst a series of summer

exercises being held in sweltering

temperatures of 45° Celsius. The ex-

ercise in inhospitable climate and

rugged terrain is considered signifi-

cant, as troops have by now been

trained to ‘lance’ into enemy territory

within a given time frame. The exer-

cise envisages sustained, massed

mechanized manoeuvres in a simu-

lated environment by composite

combat entities, ably supported by air

and complemented by a wide array

of weapon systems and enabling

combat logistics. According to the

Indian Ministry of Defence

spokesman S.D. Goswami, the ma-

noeuvres are being conducted to test

the operational and transformational

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Musings on the cry of the ‘Hawks’, like India’s ex -Foreign minister, Yashwant Sinha, who want the Indian Army to carry out ‘surgical’ strikes by ‘lancing across’ the border into nuclear-armed PakistanIndia’s corrupt & morally repugnant rulers, and their mercenary uniformed minions, don’t give a tinkers damn

if their new and untried, Military doctrine, (which has replaced the stupid ‘Cold- Start’ military dogma) WILLcreate an existential threat to Sikh majority Punjab & endanger the Darbar Sahib, (known as the ‘GoldenTemple’ in the Western world) located in the holy city of Amritsar just 15 miles from the Indo-Pak border

In a crude attempt to show that the Indian Army can copycat the recent highly professional ‘AmericanSeals’ superb surprise attack on Osama Bin Laden’s lair, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the Indian Army, forthe past four weeks, has had the impudence to deploy in a threatening gesture, its 60, 000 strong 2ndStrike Corps, in 112* F weather, in the border areas of Sikh Punjab and N. Rajasthan, about 30 milesfrom Pakistan’s ‘soft-underbelly’, hoping the big troop movement would intimidate Pakistan’s rulers

into saying ‘Uncle’, because of fear of the new Indian military doctrine. A Pakistan retaliation, with mis-siles to any Indian cross-border thrust is certain which can cause extensive damage to Sikh Punjab


effectiveness of the Kharga Corps and also validate

new concepts that have emerged during transfor-

mation studies undertaken by the Army. The ongo-

ing exercise “Vijayee Bhava” is doing all this

across an area of 2,400 sq km in the deserts that are

just 50-60 km away from Pakistan. The Indian

Army has not mentioned how this new military

doctrine will handle nuclear mines buried inside

Pakistan, which will get triggered inside Pakistan

territory, if any hostile ‘Indian’ force lances across

the border automatically unleashing a nuclear mis-

sile launch aimed at New Delhi and/or Mumbai

and/or Bangalore.

A rare verbal sparring between the army

chiefs of India and Pakistan over prospects of New

Delhi planning an Abbottabad-like hot pursuit of

alleged fugitives across the Pakistan border was

mellowed by a helicopter tragedy in which India‘s

satellites and highly-rated warplanes seemed to

have got their sums wrong when they could not

even locate the wreckage of Arunachal Pradesh

chief minister Dorjee Khandu‘s VIP chopper in

which he died. The Hindustan Times reported how

Luguthang village panchayat leader Thupten Tser-

ing and some 40 others beat the satellite imagery

of ISRO, India‘s prestigious space agency, and IAF

Sukhoi-30s infra-red aerial mapping, to locate the

wreckage at 16,000ft. According to the paper, se-

curity forces spent an entire day trying to trek to

two satellite-guided spots, one (Nagarjiji) in West

Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh and the other

north of Thongrong in Bhutan. They found nothing

there. The Indian Army some years ago trumpeted

a similar new military doctrine called ‘Cold Start’,

effective under a nuclear overhang on which a lot

of Indian treasure and valuable time was wasted but

which now has been dumped as garbage within ten

years. A similar fate awaits this latest military ‘doc-

trine’ which envisages sustained, massed mecha-

nized manoeuvres in a simulated environment by

composite combat entities, ably supported by air

and complemented by a wide array of weapon sys-

tems and enabling combat logistics. A determined

enemy with the will to use nukes as mines or short-

range nuclear missiles trumps all military doc-

trines! Pakistan’s powerful chief of the ISI (Inter

Services Intelligence) General Ahmed Shuja Pasha,

according to a report in the Times of India, warned

India, during his address to a special session of the

Pakistani parliament last week, that any copycat,

“Abbottabad-like attack by India would invite a be-

fitting response from Pakistan as targets inside

India have already been ‘identified’ and ‘re-

hearsals’ have been carried out.” The Pakistani re-

sponse is crystal clear and is meant to take care of

the forward movement of India’s Ambala-based

2nd Strike Corps, (about sixty thousand men) dur-

ing April 2011, 30 miles from the Pakistan border,

concentrated in a 2,500 Sq. Kilometer area in North

Rajasthan and Sikh Punjab.

Musings on the cry of the ‘Hawks’, like India’s ex -Foreign minister, Yashwant Sinha, who want the Indian Army to carry out ‘surgical’ strikes by ‘lancing across’ the border into nuclear-armed Pakistan

conti from pg1who won the riding of Bramalea-Gore-

Malton after 18 years of continuous repre-

sentation by the Liberals, was named

minister of state for sport. Gosal becomes

the first local MP to be handed a portfolio

since Albina Guarnieri, who stepped down

earlier this year after 22 years on Parliament

Hill, also serving in various minister roles.

Brampton, 10th largest City in

Canada, now represented in the Federal

Cabinet. This demonstrates the importance

of Brampton with PM Harper's new govern-

ment said Mayor of Brampton Susan

Fennell. As Mayor, I will be meeting with

our four new Members of Parliament and

outlining Brampton's needs. We need office

Jobs in Brampton. I have traveled to Ottawa

many times in recent years to request a

Federal Office presence, a building, in our

city, creating new office jobs in Brampton.

MP Gosal, now, Minister Gosal, has

a unique opportunity to use his home city-

Brampton to demonstrate active lifestyle

and the importance of Sport and Healthy

Lifestyles said mayor Susan Fennell.

The Prime Minister announced a

number of other cabinet appointments

today, but there were relatively few changes

affecting FCM’s priority issues. These is-

sues include public safety, northern affairs,

immigrant settlement, affordable housing

and homelessness, rights-of-way, and pay-

ments in lieu of taxes said the Chair of On-

tario Caucus of Federation of Canadian

Municipalities.

Mayor noted that the City of

Brampton has no Federal Office jobs other

than a passport office. Jobs are key for

Brampton people, and office jobs are lower

than average, very low ratio. The Federal

Gov't , when next spreading out a major

Federal Department, they should consider

downtown Brampton and Queen Street for

their 'presence'.

Newcomer Tim Uppal from Sher-

wood Park, who defeated Conservative-

turned-independent James Ford for the

second time and with a wider margin on

May 2, will become the minister of state,

democratic reform. In his new position, he

will help select senators and monitor public

financing.

Talk that some high profile newbies

would get instant promotions turned out to

be just rumours. Neither former diplomat

Chris Alexander nor pediatric surgeon Kel-

lie Leitch got the recruitment. Harper com-

mented by saying rookies must not be

rushed into cabinet, "Any hockey coach

will tell you that if a team is going to keep

winning over time, it must maintain a corps

of veterans and then gradually blend in new

talent."

Only one of the five Tories elected

in Quebec, Maxime Bernier, returns to cab-

inet after a three year hiatus when he was

dismissed from cabinet in 2008 after forget-

ting secret documents at his girlfriend’s

place. Bernier will be filling a junior role as

minister of state for small business and

tourism.

B.C.’s Ed Fast will enter as trade minister

while former Mulroney minister Bernard

Valcourt will return with a junior portfolio

as minister of state for ACOA and francoph-

onie.

Although 10 of the 28 women in the

166-member Conservative caucus made it

into cabinet, critics still condemned this to

be insufficient

Among those who did not make it

to cabinet include former junior ministers

Rob Merrifield of Alberta and Rob Moore

of New Brunswick.

Courageous Journalism May 19, 2011 07


why it has kept quiet against the

crime of state terrorism and the com-

mission of crime of genocide against

the Sikh race all these years? Don’t

we ever think that the fight against

terrorism can become stronger if the

other branch of it - state terrorism

and the crime of genocide are con-

sidered equally evil and both fought

against simultaneously? The West

can’t afford to fight terrorism alone

without taking the victims of state

terrorism and the crime of genocide

on board.

We are quite happy with the

recent results in the General Elec-

tions held in Canada where Sikh can-

didates who supported state

terrorism, the crime of genocide by

THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian

State) besides opposing the concept

of an independent and separate sov-

ereign Sikh state of Khalistan were

all well and truly jettisoned by the

Canadian electorate. This sends out

a very clear message to all authori-

ties who have run rough shod over

the Human Rights principles, sup-

ported the crime of genocide of the

Sikh’s, war crimes and crimes

against humanity are going to feel

the heat of the Sikh anger which is

sending a very clear cut message

through the ballot box to the Sikh

génocidaires.

We can only stress that the

Sikh’s must carry out with their le-

gitimate struggle to bring the géno-

cidaires to trial before the

International Criminal Court at the

Hague and to work assiduously and

tirelessly towards getting ourselves a

Homeland of our own, the independ-

ent and sovereign state of Khalistan,

which would be a buffer between

two historic civilisations – Islam and

Hinduism and also the Chinese civil-

isation, that being Islamic Pakistan,

Communist China and THIS (Theo-

cratic Hindu Indian State) which are

ever ready to put a dagger into one

another’s backs, all armed with

deadly nuclear weapons

and WMD’s.

The Sikh buffer state, thus

formed would be the only oasis of

peace in South Asia, which will keep

these dreadful enemies away from

one another’s throats. The Sikh state

will also stabilize the ferment in

Afghanistan, besides keeping nu-

clear armed Shia Iran and Sunni Is-

lamic Pakistan at peace with one an

other.

In the meantime the

Sikh’s want the UN,

NATO, European Union

and UN’s Security Coun-

cil to create a No Fly Zone

over all Sikh territories of

Panjab, Haryana, Ra-

jasthan, Himachal

Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir,

Chandigarh UT and

Ladakh, over which no

war plane, missiles with

war heads or spy satellites

of any country including

THIS (Theocratic Hindu

Indian State) can fly over.

In the end we can only say

that the religious order

created by Guru Nanak

which built the founda-

tions of this faith on the

doctrine that the Sikh’s are

neither Hindu nor Mus-

lim, can guarantee ever-

lasting and perennial

peace in this part of the

world–South Asia and the

Gulf. Last but not the

least our thanks go out to

the Canadian voter who

has seen this logic and

voted out the Hindu

state’s Quislings from its

soil. We hope the Cana-

dian’s will not now rest on

their oars but continue

with their efforts to pass a

resolution against the

crime of genocide of the

Sikh peoples in their Par-

liament in Ottawa,

have the US re-

scind its decision

to give the Hindu

state the 123 Nu-

clear Agreement

in which the nu-

clear military re-

actors have been

excluded from the

inspection regime

of the IAEA. We

also hope the

Canadian elec-

torate will have

Canada pull out of

the NSG agree-

ment of ratifying

the 123 Nuclear

Agreement as it

was from the

Canadian atomic

reactors gifted to THIS (Theocratic

Hindu Indian State) by Canada that

the Hindu scientists stole the en-

riched plutonium and uranium to

make their nuclear arsenal, all this in

defiance and not signing the NPT.

It is said that when France

sneezes, Europe catches a cold. In a

similar context we hope what the

Canadian electorate has done in

Canada, their sagacity and states-

manship would catch the world’s at-

tention for justice to the Sikh race.

Facta non Verba.

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The Abbottabad raid by the Ameri-

can’s which killed Osama bin

Laden has won the imagination of

almost all the Indian’s as he has be-

come the modern day Scarlet Pim-

pernel. Generals are in great

demand by journalists who want to

write something on this subject and

most of them feel that the Indian

military should also make a similar

strike into Pakistan where India

says about fifty wanted alleged ter-

rorists are being harboured. Some

retired Generals have said that the

American Special Forces like in-

cursion can be undertaken by

India’s Special Forces. But the very

cautious Generals fear that India

does not have the technical know

how and the wherewithal to carry

out such a raid and a botched raid,

like the one that was undertaken

during the period of President

Carter into Iran could do more

harm than good.

However, I feel that if the

Indian Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh

has said that his troops are capable

of making a successful raid into

Pakistan, his counterparts in Pak-

istan have said that if India does

this then they have already chosen

targets where they would strike in

this country and all hell would

break loose. If Gen. V.K. Singh has

voiced the policy of the Union gov-

ernment of India, I think it has set a

precedent after the American raid in

Abbottabad where stronger nations

think they can carry out such depre-

dations with impunity.

If the Indian thinking is correct then

if it is a precedent, I think China can

also strike at targets with its Special

Forces where it believes that India

is harbouring terrorists who are

subverting its sovereignty. As such

there can be no end to the bigger

fish eating the smaller fish if this is

a policy that India believes can

bring back its fugitives for retribu-

tion. If India has its list of

terrorists in Pakistan so do we

Sikh’s have a list of genocidaires

who have since 1982 committed the

genocide of the Sikh race? Of these

none have been arrested or been

sent up for trial at the International

Criminal Court at the Hague, which

is the right place for these

scalawags to stand trial. In

the Abbottabad raid by the Ameri-

can’s we are told that the Al-Quada

fugitive Osama bin Laden was un-

armed when the Special Forces en-

tered his house and bedroom. As

such he could easily have been ar-

rested and taken alive because the

Geneva Conventions of War do not

allow the killings of unarmed com-

batants. This legal point is going to

come up for academic discussions

once the heat of Osama bin Laden’s

death cools down. I think when the

Indian’s think of an Abbottabad

raid into Pakistan to capture the so-

called terrorists on the list they have

sent to Pakistan, they would too

like to kill those on the list they call

their quarry. Again this would be in

violation of the Conventions,

that is if their quarry is unarmed.

In the case of the Ameri-

can ingress into Pakistan, Pak-

istan had very little to say. Its

ally China has also more or less

said very little against the Amer-

ican foray. But in the case of

India, if it were to emulate

America, would Pakistan a nu-

clear armed state remain quiet or

would China also play dumb?

These are the questions that we

must seek from the hawks in the

Indian establishment.

If India were to carry out

such a raid, what effect would it

have on us Sikh’s and in the ter-

ritories where we have our pop-

ulations, that is Panjab, Haryana,

Rajasthan, Chandigarh UT,

Jammu Kashmir, Himachal

Pradesh and Ladakh. The Sikh’s

are neither Hindu nor Muslim

and we do not have any enmity

with either of these two nuclear

armed states–India and Pakistan

and China as well which may

come into the fray as I have said.

Why should the Sikh inhabited

territories become the nuclear

battlefield when we have no ill

will with any of these inimical

countries?

The other question that

comes to mind is that if such

raids become a precedent and

the legal route is abandoned like

extradition treaties, then the law

of the jungle would prevail in in-

ternational relations. If this is so

the Sikh’s who are a stateless

people at this period of time but

consider themselves sui-generis

sovereign then when the Sikh

adventurers killed Indira Gandhi

and General Vaidya as they too had

committed grave and heinous

crimes against the Sikh’s then

where were they wrong? If India

has submitted a list of its criminals

to Pakistan the Sikh’s too have their

list of their genocidaires and would

it be a crime if the Sikh’s hunted

these wanted criminals in the same

way that India wants to and Amer-

ica has already done? Of

course these are all hypothetical

questions after the Abbottabad raid

but if India were to repeat such a

raid into Pakistan then these would

not remain hypothetical questions

and what I have stated bedlam

would be let loose in international

relations. I think all this banter of

the Indian’s in making a raid into

Pakistan is only wishful thinking

because they would never be able

to ride out the storm.


If wishes were horses, beggars would rideby Simranjit Singh Mann

May 19, 2011 09Courageous Journalism

Chandigarh: The RCMP

(Royal Canadian Mounted

Police) were reluctant to

share evidence. At that point

of time I wanted to shut the

inquiry... Then it started

coming. It was not easy to

get information,” recalled

Justice John C Major, who

was Chairman of Commis-

sion of Inquiry into the In-

vestigation of the Bombing

of Air India Flight 182 (Kan-

ishka). It was the largest

mass murder in the history

of Canada. “The bombing

was clearly preventable. It

could have stopped at the

desk of CSIS (Canadian Se-

curity Intelligence Service)

desk. There was an input that

terrorists would seek re-

venge in June, 1985. Air

India had also sent a mes-

sage to all airports on June 1,

where they were operating

flights,” said Major.

“At the time of blast,

Canadian ambassador was

recently replaced and there

was no one at that time.

Canada’s response was slow

at that time, but the Irish

people did an excellent job,”

said Major. In his report, he

had commented on racism

angle, “While the Commis-

sion does not feel that the

term “racism” is helpful, it is

also understandable that the

callous attitude by the Gov-

ernment of Canada to the

families of the victims might

lead them to wonder

whether a similar response

would have been forthcom-

ing had the overwhelming

majority of the victims of the

bombing been Canadians

who were white. The Com-

mission concludes that both

the Government and the

Canadian public were slow

to recognize the bombing of

Flight 182 as a Canadian

issue.”

According to Major,

the plane was two-and-a-half

hours late. The manager (of

Air India) was anxious to get

off the ground. The X-ray

screening machine broke

down after checking part of

the luggage and PD-4 sniffer

device had to be used, but

Air India security staff were

not trained to use it.

He said, “It was

around 3 o’ clock in the af-

ternoon. M Singh got off the

plane unobserved. He could

go off so easily.”

On compensation, he

said, “It should have been

given immediately like what

we saw in case of 9/11. The

compensation has to be eval-

uated by putting those killed

as alive today.”

He said that it was a great

handicap to start inquiry

years after the incident.

“I am satisfied with

the report. We had four years

of evidence. Six experts on

air security from the United

States assisted us.”

Amritsar: The former finance

minister and president People’s

Party of Punjab, S. Manpreet

Singh Badal extended whole

hearted support to the teachers of

Khalsa College and said that they

had done a great service to the

Sikh community by taking up

cudgels against the unfavourable

designs of the management. He

also added that it was the teach-

ers who were responsible for the

growth and the progress of In-

dian economy. He said that

Khalsa College teachers have

contributed immensely to Pun-

jab’s development and their vic-

tory for this cause was imminent.

He exhorted everyone to jump in

the midst of the things and take a

stand for the right cause oppos-

ing the move towards privatiza-

tion and registration of false

cases against the teachers. He

committed that every member of

People’s Party of Punjab would

strive with body, heart and soul

to secure the future of Punjab’s

young generations and support

the cause of saving Khalsa Col-

lege Amritsar. S. Badal was ac-

companied by S. J.S. Brar, ex

M.L.A. S. Badal also honoured

the Professors sitting on chain

fast on the occasion. His visit

proved a great encouragement to

the teachers and they thanked

him for the support he extended

to their cause. The teachers were

also encouraged by the visit of S.

Bhag Singh Ankhi, Hon. Secre-

tary Chief Khalsa Diwan and

Former Hon. Secretary of the

Khalsa College Governing

Council, and Dr. Mohinder

Singh Dhillon, former Principal,

Khalsa College, Amritsar on this

occasion. S. Ankhi criticized the

lackluster and disinterested atti-

tude of the Principal Dr. Daljeet

Singh towards ensuring maxi-

mum possible admission in the

college for the upcoming aca-

demic session 2011-2012. He

further added that the self deter-

mined policy of running a course

only if a minimum of 40 students

took admission into it would

have detrimental effect and it

leads to disastrous fall in college

strength on account of lack of

options available to the students.

He also said that the principal in

connivance with the Honorary

Secretary would not be allowed

to succeed in their efforts to shut

down the college in this manner

and met with stiff resistance and

sacrifices if necessary to stop

them in their vested moves. He

appealed to all political, religious

and social organizations to sup-

port the struggling professors in

their endeavour and save the

priceless Sikh heritage of Khalsa

College Amritsar.

‘Evasive Canada cops almost derailed Kanishka probe’

I Have Come To Salute The Nation Builders – Badal


Srinagar,: Global human

rights watchdog Amnesty

International in its latest re-

port has castigated the

Jammu and Kashmir gov-

ernment for “little progress”

in the inquiries ordered into

the civilian killings which

took place during 2010 un-

rest.

“An inquiry, instituted by

the state authorities, cov-

ered 17 out of 100 deaths,

despite demands by

Amnesty International and

other organizations for an

independent, impartial and

thorough investigation into

all the deaths. The inquiry

made little progress,” the re-

port states. “Between June

and September (2010), the

police and security forces

fired at protesters during

pro-independence protests

demanding accountability

for past violations in the

Kashmir valley. More than

100 people, mostly youths,

were killed and 800 others,

including media men, were

injured,” the report added.

Referring to the ongoing

turmoil in the Valley for

past 2-decades, the report

states, “Impunity for past

violations in Kashmir, in-

cluding the disappearance

of thousands of people since

1989 during the armed con-

flict, continues.”

It stated that over

thousand people were killed

in ‘faked encounters’ in

India between 1993 and

2008. “Recent data dis-

closed by the National

Human Rights Commission

(NHRC) of India on people

killed in clashes with the

police between 1993 and

2008, showed 2,560

deaths.”

1224 KILLED IN FAKE

ENCOUNTERS

“At least 1224 (deaths) oc-

curred in faked encounters

implying they were extra-

judicial executions. By the

end of the year, the NHRC

had awarded compensation

to the relatives of 16 vic-

tims,” the report mentions.

“Convictions of those re-

sponsible for extra-judicial

executions were exception-

ally rare and proceedings in

such cases remained slow,”

AI said.

Toronto – Canada’s largest

South Asian music concert

desiFEST (presented by

Rogers) will be bringing

Toronto its 2nd annual “Bol-

lywood In the Square” free

outdoor movie night from 7-

10 PM on Friday, May 27,

2011 free for audiences at

Yonge-Dundas Square.

desiFEST made history last

year partnering with OMNI

Television to present

Toronto’s first ever outdoor

Bollywood movie screening.

“Bollywood In The Square”

set a new movie attendance

record at Yonge-Dundas

Square with over 5,000

unique visitors enjoying the

hit Bollywood movie “Ajab

Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani”

alongside South Asian deli-

cacies and free OMNI henna

tattoos.

This year, desiFEST will

bringing “Golmaal 3” for

Toronto audiences to enjoy.

Part of India’s first ever

movie trilogy, “Golmaal 3”

stars Bollywood heartthrob

Ajay Devgan alongside the

sultry Kareena Kapoor.

“Golmaal 3” was the second

highest-grossing Bollywood

film of 2010, and holds the

title of fourth highest-gross-

ing Bollywood film of all

time.

After enjoying “Bollywood

In The Square”, come kick-

off the Summer with thou-

sands celebrating South

Asian artists and arts at de-

siFEST on Saturday, May 28,

2011 from 11 AM-11 PM.

desiFEST (presented by

Rogers) features contempo-

rary indo-jazz fusion, global

beats and cutting edge per-

formances boasting 12 hours

of foot-tapping music. In-

cluded in the celebrations are

South Asian delicacies in the

food market, artisans in the

merchant market and a kids

zone entertaining kids with a

popular bouncy castle.

“desiFEST” (presented by

Rogers) is Canada’s only na-

tional South Asian music

Festival. Creating opportuni-

ties for South Asian artists

and South Asian inspired

music, the event strengthens

local communities, inspires

youth, and supports the arts

community in Canada. The

festival has toured Toronto,

Montreal and Vancouver

showcasing over 75 incredi-

ble artists and over 24 hours

of music each year. For more

information visit www.de-

sifest.ca.

Amnesty castigates JK Govt 2nd annual “Bollywood InThe Square” on May 27, 2011

‘Little Progress Made On 2010 Killings Probe’

Auto Section

Ah, yes, the Buick Regal. Its

looming delivery prompted a

mixture. One the one hand,

'twas a namplate I grew up

with. On the other hand,

'twas also a nameplate I

grew up with.

See, I alternately 1. suffered

ennui at the notion of such

venerability, and 2. experi-

enced nostalgic happiness

that the good ol' Regal's still

around. But then, this is not

my father's Regal. This is

Buick's all-new 2011 Regal ,

the pad for which is in Rus-

selsheim, Germany, de-

veloped on Epsilon II

architecture.

Yep, the new Regal's a

German.

The new lineage is ap-

parent in everything

from its steering and

handling to its interior

fit and finish. Heck,

nearly half the ride's

parts hail from Bavaria.

Well, 40 percent, with

the balance produced in

North America and far-

flung lands, lending the

Regal a kind of worldly j'ne

sais quoi (Regal is marqued

as an Opel Insignia in Eu-

rope, and sells nicely as a

Regal in China).

The 2.4-liter DOHC four-

cylinder Ecotech fuel-in-

jected engine serves up 182

ponies, and is plenty able for

its class. That is, I never

found it to be particularly

lacking, even when negotiat-

ing a tricky freeway on-

ramp, thanks in part to 172

pound-feet of torque and a

six-speed auto tranny.

Still, I do wonder what the

turbo version's like...

But you gotta dig the sus-

pension on this one. Gone is

the floatiness familiar to the

"dentist's car" set. Now, I

swear, there's actually a pli-

ant tautness. Steering is im-

proved too, although braking

could use a little more edge,

especially since the front-

wheeler has a rather burly

curb weight of 3,600

pounds.

Mileage is a middling 19

city, 30 highway. I like the

Regal's exterior aesthetics:

elegant, in an understated

kind of way; the kind of

looks, like navy blazers, that

fit you in, or blend you in.

The inside is equally classy,

save for the General Motors-

standard teal instrument dis-

play. Standard

leather-appointed seating is

comfortable enough, and

there's enough rear legroom

for this lithe scribe. Trunk

spacing's fine, too.

My silver on black loaner

came standard with an

airbag sensing system, turn-

by-turn OnStar navigation,

18-inch wheels, halogen

headlamps, 60/40 split fold-

ing seatback, heated front

seats, eight-way power-ad-

justed driver's seat, leather-

wrapped, telescopic steering

wheel, and Bluetooth capa-

bility. You'll have to shell out

extra for eight-way, front-

passenger seating; a 120-volt

outlet; power sunroof; rear-

seat mounted airbags; and a

premium, nine-speaker

sound system, all adding

$2,790 to the basic, good-

value sticker of $26,245.

In all, the Regal symbolizes

GM's first truly successful

international-car program.

Buick has been on the up for

a few years now, and this

Regal, designed mainly to

best the Acura TSX, will do

nothing to hurt Buick's resur-

gence. In fact, my money

says it will help.

2011 Buick Regal CXL ReviewBy: Mary M. Chapman

May 19, 2011 11Courageous Journalism


BLACK BEANS WITH RICE

Method Pick through beans to remove bad beans. Soak beans overnight

in cold water. Drain and rinse.

In large soup pot or dutch oven stir together beans, water, green

pepper, onion, oil, bay leaves, garlic, and salt. Cover and boil 1

hour.

Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 3-4 hours or until beans are

very tender. Stir occasionally and add water if needed. Remove

about 1/3 of the beans, mash and return to pot. Stir and heat

through. Remove bay leaves and stir in vinegar or lemon juice

when ready to serve. Serve over rice. Garnish with sliced pimento

and lemon wedges.

Breathing is something which is an

involuntary action. You do not need

to pay attention to your breathing as

it will happen anyway. When you are

pregnant, however it will be more

important to pay attention to your

breathing.

When you are pregnant, you are

breathing to get enough oxygen for

you and your baby. As you progress,

breathing become snore difficult as

your baby grows larger and needs

more oxygen, and it will also start to

press against the vital organs for

breathing. You will also need lots of

help breathing for labor.

It is best to start early.

Breathe slowly and

take deep breaths at

least once every day.

Doing this for ten to

fifteen minutes is a

very good practice. As

you move forward in

your pregnancy, you

can work this into

your exercise routine.

Many of the yoga routines designed

are lively, invigorating, almost

dance-like. They get your breathing

and circulation

working optimally

and the vigorous

arm movements

and upward

stretches, plus deep

breathing, help

blood circulate

through the abdom-

inal organs and

bring fresh, nour-

ishing blood to your baby via the pla-

centa.

As the body's balance changes with

enlargement of abdomen, it is impor-

tant to take your centre of gravity

downward, while keeping your spine

stretched up and your chest open.

This upright, graceful stance will

make you feel elegant and confident

and also allows more space to be cre-

ated around the diaphragm, which

needs to find room to contract down-

ward so that you are able to breathe

really deeply and fully.

1 lb dry black beans.

7c water.

1 medium green pepper,

coarsely chopped.

1-1/2 C chopped onion.

1 Tbsp vegetable oil.

2 bay leaves.

1 clove garlic, minced.

1/2 tsp salt.

1 Tbsp vinegar (or lemon juice).

6 C rice, cooked in unsalted water.

1 jar (4 oz) sliced pimento, drained.

1 lemon, cut into wedges.

Breathing for you and your baby


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Picutures of winner teams and or-

ganizers of 7th Nachdi Jawani

Youth Festival 2011. It was an

amazing entertainment and sold out

event last weekend at Dream con-

vention in Toronto, Nachdi Jawani

is a famous dance academy runing

by Canadian born Punjabi Youth

from 5 locations in Greater Toron-

too Area, This organization holds

annual festivals to encourage new

zeneration to preserve and promote

Punjabi culture. MP vick dhillon,

Singer and Actor Gippy Grewal,

Iqbal Singh Virk and 1200 audience

appreciate the efforts and hard work

of all coaches and paerticipants. It

will be on air in GTA on sstv 11am

Sunday and also Canada wide in

Iqbal Virk's show Jee Aayan Nu,

saturday night 8:30pm.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab

Pradesh Congress Committee

President Capt Amarinder Singh

today appointed Qila Raipur

MLA Jassi Khangura as the co-

ordinator for the Shaheed Bha-

gat Singh Nagar (Nawa Shahar)

for holding of the workers’

meeting in the assembly con-

stituencies falling in the dis-

trict.Khangura’s appointment

was necessitated after Bholath

MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira re-

quested the PCC President to be

relieved of the responsibility as,

he ( Khaira) said, he wanted to

spend time in his own con-

stituency. The dates for holding

the workers meeting in SBS

Nagar district will be announced

later.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab

Pradesh Congress Committee

President Capt Amarinder Singh

will begin the sec-

ond phase of his as-

sembly tour from

June 8.

The PCC President

will meet the work-

ers of Ludhiana

Urban on June 8

with Jagmohan

Singh Kang as coor-

dinator.He will meet

the workers of Amritsar, (Rural

2) on June 9 with Tript Rajinder

Bajwa as coordinator. In

Hoshiarpur (1) he will meet

workers on June 10 with Ash-

wani Sekhri as coordinator.He

will be in Moga on June 13 with

Rana Gurmit Sodhi as coordina-

tor.

In Gur-

daspur(2) he

will meet the

workers on

June 14 with

Rana KP Singh

as coordina-

tor.On June 15

he will meet the

workers of Jal-

landhar (3) with Ashok Sharma

as coordinator.He will meet the

workers of Kapurthala on June

16, with Amarjit Singh Samra as

coordinator.

Khangura appointed SBSNagar coordinator

Capt Amarinder to begin secondphase of assembly tour from June 8


Actor Deepika Padukone is looking rejuvenated

and charged to face the world. Not even the men-

tion of the controversy her last item number in

Dum Maro Dum generated leaves her ruffled. "If

the audience had a problem with the lyrics, then

I'm sorry that is not my fault. But I don't regret it.

In fact, I consider myself fortunate to have been

a part of an iconic song like that," she says.

Her eyes, however, light up when she talks of her

next film Desi Boyz, which sees her being paired

with Bolly hunk, John Abraham. Much is being

written about a budding friendship between the

two. "John is a great co-star and I am really happy

to be working with him," says Deepika adding,

"We are good friends and I know people are look-

ing forward to seeing us, but so am I." The actor

has been spotted with biz honcho, Siddhartha

Mallya following her break-up with actor Ranbir

Kapoor. Considering much has happened post

their break-up, would she still work with Ranbir?

"We haven't been offered a film together of late,

but we are still open to working with each other.

I am

still looking forward to working with Ranbir."

Deepika is working in Prakash Jha's latest film

film Aarakshan. It's but natural to ask about actor

Katrina Kaif, who's apparently replaced her in

Ranbir's life and also starred in Jha's last film

Raajneeti. "Comparisons happen all the time. I'm

sure Katrina was also compared to someone else

when she did Rajneeti. But frankly, I don't really

have the time to sit and think about people I have

issues with and don't have issues with."

'I'd stillwork withRanbir

SalmanKhan apes

SRK'sDDLJ act!

Salman Khan might not be on talking

terms with SRK but he certainly did-

n't mind copying him for a scene in

Bodyguard. The actor has shot for a

train sequence very similar to the one

picturised on Shah Rukh and Kajol

in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge.

In the scene, Salman Khan

pulls his 'good friend' Hazel Keech

aboard a moving train, reports Mum-

bai Mirror.

"If you had been there on the site,

you couldn't have helped noticing the

uncanny resemblance between the

two scenes, the one in Bodyguard

and the one in DDLJ. And since it

was Salman, plus he was doing a

SRK, it obviously garnered more at-

tention," an eyewitness told the

tabloid.

Atul Agnihotri, the producer of the

film, confirmed a train scene was

shot at Mumbai Central Station.

"Well yes, we did shoot a scene at

Mumbai Central station. Describing

the scene, he adds, "Aisa hai ki Hazel

is late for the train, which is pulling

away from the station when she

reaches the platform. So, Salman

helps her in."

But he asserts it's not a complete lift.

He tells the tabloid, "Arre, the one in

DDLJ comes in the climax!"

Well, we wonder if SRK will copy

Salman's Dabangg act now

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