Ottawa: A leading Canadian journalist has warned that Pakistan is airing the demand for Khalistan for its own interests, it is not only dangerous for India’s national security but also threatens Canada. During four decades as a correspondent for Canada’s most-watched CBC TV News, award-winning Milewski has reported from 52 countries. In 1985, they covered the bombings on Air India, killing 329 people onboard a plane going from Montreal to Heathrow. He followed that story for the past 35 years, covering the entire investigation of the case.
Milevski retired as a senior correspondent for CBC in 2016, occasionally returning as the network’s guest host. A report by Milevski published by the McDonald Loire Institute, a prestigious Ottawa-based think tank, reveals how Pakistan revolted the Khalistan revolt , using Indian Sikhs in Punjab, India to avenge their defeat in the Indo-Pak 1971 war.
India intervened in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to prevent the massacre carried out by the Pakistani army and consequently helped to liberate it from West Pakistan. Interestingly, the report states that Pakistan viewed the Khalistan project as a strategic buffer and how an independent Khalistan would end India’s access to Kashmir to the north, another important force of the Pakistan Army since 1947 Interest is there.
Highlighting the Khalistan project, Milevsky reported that separatist Sikhs complained loudly and properly about the massacre of several thousand Sikhs by Hindus in 1984, but during the partition of India in 1947, Muslims of millions of Sikhs in the name of Islam Did not organize rallies to demand justice for the massacre.
Milevsky’s report claimed that large countries such as Canada, Britain and the US, which have a large Sikh community, were aware of this and, therefore, doubted the Khalistan referendum. The Canadian government has already said that it will not recognize it.
Questioning the Khalistan referendum, the veteran journalist has asked in his report why separatist Sikhs are in the grip of ‘occupation’ over Indian Punjab, but never asks Pakistan to cease its occupation of Pakistani Punjab. According to the report, most Sikhs are happy with India and those who live in Indian Punjab are happy even for their regional government headed by Captain Amarinder Singh.
Source : IndiaTV