Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR Thousands of Sikh youths on Thursday gathered at Akal Takht Sahib to mark 40th anniversary of 1984 army attack carried out by India on Central Sikh shrine Sri Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple). They reiterated demand for Khalistan, sovereign Sikh nation, on the occasion, while remembering their martyrs including Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who...
Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR Complete shutdown was observed on Thursday in Amritsar city on 40th anniversary of 1984 Indian army attack on Sri Darbar Sahib and Akal Takht to express pain of the wounds caused by the attack. Call of the shutdown was given by Sikh organization Dal Khalsa to pay tributes to martyrs and protest against...
Author Hardeep Singh AMRITSAR On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the attack on the Darbar Sahib by the Indian Army in June 1984, a ‘Holocaust remembrance march’ was held by the Sikh organization Dal Khalsa in the city of Amritsar. Thousands of Sikhs participated in the march. Starting from Burz Akali Phula Singh...
Author Hardeep Singh CHANDIGARH Pro-freedom jailed Sikh leader Amritpal Singh and Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, who is son of Indian PM Indira Gandhi’s assassin Beant Singh, have secured historic victory in the parliamentary polls from Khadoor Sahib and Faridkot constituencies respectively. Pro-freedom Sikh party Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann and its other candidates...
Author Damanvir Kaur The horrific images of what occurred forty years ago still remain engrained in Sikhs’ minds. The genocide perpetrated by the Indian government, carried out with intent and malice, sought to demolish the very essence of what it meant to be a Sikh. Targeted for their identity, brutalized for their belief, Sikhs carry...