BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian truckdriver who pleaded guilty Wednesday tosmuggling cocaine in the floorboards ofhis truck was part of an operation that sentmore than 1½ tons of drugs across theU.S. border into Canada since 2009,federal authorities said.

Ravinder Arora, 30, of Brampton,Ontario, pleaded guilty in federal courtWednesday to conspiring to exportcocaine. He faces at least 10 years inprison at his December sentencing.

Arora was about to cross theLewiston-Queenston Bridge from westernNew York into Ontario last Septemberwhen his nervous demeanor led U.S.border agents to search his truck,authorities said. Agents found 213 poundsof cocaine worth more than $3.8 millionin a compartment beneath the trailer'sfloor. It was believed to be the largestsingle narcotics seizure in the region'shistory.

As part of his a plea agreement,Arora admitted making four other tripsand agreed to cooperate in the continuinginvestigation into what authorities believeis a larger smuggling operation.

Two other people, including theowner of the trucking company thatemployed Arora, are awaiting trial.

Investigators said Arora wouldpick up the cocaine at a warehouse inChino, Calif., and drive to a warehouse inthe Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga,where legitimate cargo was piled on topof a false floor concealing the drugs. Hethen drove into Canada to deliver thedrugs to a warehouse in Mississauga foreventual street sale in the Toronto area.

Arora was promised $8,000 persmuggling trip, according to courtdocuments.

Arora's attorney, ParmanandPrashad, said Wednesday that his client"deeply regrets his actions and was usedby others who were making the bigmoney.

"He has since realized that the

risks he took were not worth the penalty,"Prashad said.

Based on ledgers seized during theinvestigation, the operation is believed tohave made nine successful trips before

Arora's arrest in September 2010. Thegroup ushered an estimated 3,500 poundsof cocaine across the border, according to

U.S. and Canadian law enforcementauthorities, who highlighted Wednesday'splea at a news conference at the interna-tional Peace Bridge.

"It was a very good concealmenttechnique, under the floorin the support structures ofthe trailer," said James En-gleman, director of fieldoperations for U.S. Cus-toms and Border Protec-tion. He said an X-ray ofArora's trailer and a pass bya drug-sniffing dog were in-conclusive, leading officersto "follow their gut" andpull up the floorboards."With some X-ray inspec-

tions ... some a second-grader could say,'I can see what's there.' Other times youlook at it and there's no definition, there

just appears to be something unusual in agiven area," Engleman said. "This was avery professional job. This wasn't anafterthought, quick concealmenttechnique. They spent a lot of time tobuild a professional quality concealmenton these trailers."

The group also is believed to havesmuggled ecstasy and marijuana into theUnited States, as well as cash.

Parminder Sidhu, who hired Aroraas a driver at his company, Prime 9, is incustody in Canada and awaitingextradition, U.S. Attorney WilliamHochul said. Sidhu is charged with con-spiracy to possess with intent to distributecocaine and conspiracy to export cocaine.It was unknown whether he has anattorney. A home telephone listing wasdisconnected and a phone number forPrime 9 could not be located.

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Sikh and other small Comunities

We were extremely poor yet we hadbooks at home, said Ada Yonath, the2009 Nobel laureate in chemistry fromIsrael .Six million Israelis buy twelvemillion books every year, being the high-est consumers of books in the world.

Knowledge comes through edu-cation and Israel has the highest schoollife expectancy in South West Asia withthe highest literacy rate. Education iscompulsory for children between theages of three and eighteen. Israel spends$110 on scientific research per year per

person. Six of the best universities in theworld are in Israel. For every 10000 Is-raelis there are 145 engineers or scien-tists. On the other hand there is zeropercent chance that Pakistan will achievethe millennium development goals on ed-ucation by 2015.India,Bangladesh andSri Lanka are well on their way toachieving the same goals. One in ten “outof school children” in the world is a Pak-istani. What is required is an additionalspending of rupees 100 billion, a fiftypercent increase over current spending.Israel, the most threatened country in theworld was spending 24% of its GDP ondefense in 1984.Today it is spending only7.3%.The budgetary allocations havesince been diverted towards productivesectors of the economy. We on the otherhand are spending around 50% of the netrevenue receipts on defense. As a majorchunk of foreign arms purchases is madethrough loans, there is no account of theamount of loans taken and the interestpaid thereon.50% of the net revenue re-ceipts go to debt servicing.

As a result of “love for knowl-

edge”, deeply ingrained in the Jewishmindset, 3 out of the 4 most influentialpeople in the last century were Jews. Ex-cept Charles Darwin, the others namely,Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and AlbertEinstein were all Jews.45 Jews have wonthe Nobel prize in Physics so far.28 re-ceived the Nobel prize for original con-tribution in the field of chemistry.52 ofthe Nobel laureates in the field of physi-ology & medicine were Jewish bybirth.12 awardees of the Nobel prize inliterature and 21 in economics were also

Jews.9 got the same prize for peace. Inother words 0.3% of world population re-ceived 24% of the Nobel prizes.

A Jewish mother would like herson to be a scientist than to be the Headof a State. Albert Einstein was offered thePresidentship of Israel which he politelyrefused.

So it all originates in the familyvalues. The love for knowledge islearned as it is valued in the family. Any-thing rewarded in the form of praise orother incentives within the family and forthat matter in the larger social setting isreinforcing and ultimately becomes partof the national character. A state and so-ciety which honors the knowledgeablebecomes a formidable force to reckonwith, as technology is based on scientificknowledge and whoever has the technol-ogy has the power.

The six day war which Israelfought against the combined armies ofEgypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq resulted inthe total capitulation of the Arab Armies.Israel captured the Gaza strip and SinaiPeninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights

from Syria and the West bank and EastJerusalem from Jordan.779 Jews werekilled against 21000 Muslims.

While 24% of Nobel prizes wentto the Jews 22% of humanity is Muslim.What has been their contribution in thelast 800 years in the fields of Physics,Chemistry, Medicine, Literature andEconomics.1.4 billion Muslims have pro-duced almost nothing yet 14 million Jewshave given so much to humanity. Wesimply cannot repay what we owe toJonas Salk who invented the polio vac-

cine in 1955, preventing billions of Mus-lims, Christians, Hindus and Jews fromthe effects of the deadly virus.

The Nobel Foundation is award-ing the prize for more than 100 years, yetduring this period the 1.4 billion Muslimshave produced only six individuals whowon the prestigious award. Abdus Salamconsidered a persona non grata in hisown country, because of his religious be-liefs. Ahmad Zawail with an Americancitizenship pursued his work in the US,Naguib Mehfooz, an Egyptian wasstabbed in the back by a fanatic Muslim,Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights ac-tivist is in exile in Canada due to threatsto her life in her own country, OrhanPamuk, a Turkish novelist was criminallycharged after he made statements alleg-ing mass killings of Armenians andKurds during the Ottoman period, andMuhammad Yunas, an economist fromBangladesh and the founder of GrameenBank who has also been subjected to anaudit by the government for allegedwrongdoings.

A number of petty cases have

also been instituted against him.At present only 1% scientists in

the world are Muslims. Today a large partof the Muslim world is taken over byforces preaching nothing but hatred andcontempt for all others belonging to theout-group. Anyone can be held guilty ofblasphemy if his or her views do notmatch with the official dogmas. The totalemphasis is on the revealed truth and noton empirical knowledge. We hate to findthe truth. For us truth lies in all kinds ofconspiracy theories. From 9/11 to the

crash of Air Blue Airliner to cricketmatch fixing to floods every phenome-non was the result of some kind of con-spiracy against us.

In a recent survey conducted by“Newsline”, 57% of Pakistani youthwas in favor of a non-secular state. Youvisit any educational institution andwould find more than half the studentswith obscurantist views. This ideologi-cally motivated lot is conditioned to seethe world in a context which suits theirstrongly held beliefs reinforced by theforces of dark.

No place for empirical knowl-edge on the national priority list, indoc-trination of hatred, intolerance, revenge,death and destruction is what leads to thecollapse of civil order, civil society andfinally the state.

Quest for empirical knowledge,tolerance, respect for mutual coexistence,love for all human beings regardless oftheir faith, are attributes of a progressive,peaceful and prosperous society and astable state.

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A Jewish mother would like her son to be a scientist than to be the Head of a State. Karl Marx,Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein were all Jews.45 Jews have won the Nobel prize inPhysics so far.28 received the Nobel prize for original contribution in the field of chemistry.52of the Nobel laureates in the field of physiology & medicine were Jewish by birth

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KHL says Canadian hockeycoach killed in plane crash

'Indian leadership united in denying Sikhs oftheir separate identity and fundamental rights'An open letter to the Prime Minister, Government of India

A devastating plane crash in western Russia has claimed the life of

Canadian hockey coach Brad McCrimmon and six other former NHL

players. At least 43 people died when a Soviet-built Yak-42 crashed

into a river bank immediately after takeoff near the western city of

Yaroslavl, Russia, about 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. The

Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the plane crashed into

a riverbank on the Volga River.

The plane was carrying members of the Lokomotiv ice

hockey team, who were due to travel to Minsk to play the opening

game of the Kontinental Hockey League season.

The KHL has confirmed that McCrimmon is among the fa-

talities. McCrimmon, 52, is a native of Saskatchewan. He played for

six NHL teams in his career and most recently served as an assistant

coach with the Detroit Red Wings. He took the coaching job with

the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in May.

The KHL is a league that includes players from several Rus-

sia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

is a top team in the league and came third in the KHL last year. It in-

cludes several international stars in its ranks, such as Sweden's Stefan

Liv and Czech Republic's Jan Marek.

A Czech embassy said Marek was killed in the crash, along

with fellow Czech players Josef Vasicek and Karel Rachunek.

The Yak-42 is a Soviet-built, three-engine, mid-range pas-

senger jet that has been in service since 1980. Dozens remain in serv-

ice with Russian airlines and other airlines around the world.

President Dmitry Medvedev has announced plans to take aging So-

viet-built planes out of service starting next year.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has sent his transport minister

to the site of the crash.

Respected Manmohan Singh, Waheguru

Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh! We,

the Sikhs, over the years, have been fac-

ing the challenges posed by the strident

anti-Sikh lobby and more specifically by

the Hindutva elements questioning our

unique and distinct identity. The Sikhs

have expressed their concern and agony

on the issue to all successive govern-

ments in the past but none has come for-

ward to correct the constitutional wrong.

Three days back, the Law Minister Shri

Salman Khursheed in your cabinet an-

swering a query by Akali MP Sukhdev

Singh Dhindsa in the Rajya Sabha

dropped a bombshell on the Sikh com-

munity by rejecting the long pending de-

mand to implement the provisions of the

Anand Marriage Act enacted in 1909 but

lying dormant ever since India framed its

Constitution in 1950.

The rejection of the demand by

the law ministry was not only illogical

but also against all cannons of justice.

The law minister has reportedly said

seclusion of Sikhs from Hindu Marriage

Act 1955 would invite similar demands

from others including Jains, Buddhists.

Also, seclusion of one community is

against the directive principles contained

in Article 44 of the Constitution which

aims at bringing in a uniform civil code.

Regrettably, the minister has forgotten

deliberately or otherwise that there exist

separate laws for Muslims, Christians,

and Jews. Earlier, the RSS was in the

forefront in painting the Sikh identity

with a Hindu brush. Now such anti-Sikh

forces have found a friend in the Prime

Minister who happens to be a Sikh. Since

the formation of the Constitution, 61

years have passed but there has been no

change in the mindset of Indian leader-

ship, irrespective of their party affiliation

they are united to deny the Sikhs of their

separate identity. By refusing to accept

the exclusive and separate Sikh identity,

the Indian state has rubbed salt on the

festering wounds of the Sikhs. While

continuing with its discriminatory poli-

cies against the Sikhs, the state has once

again given the impression that the deci-

sion makers in North and South Block

had learnt no lessons from the tragic

events of the recent past. On one hand,

your government though reluctantly had

bowed before the crowd of 50,000 thou-

sand people gathered around social ac-

tivist Anna Hazare who was on hunger

strike at Ramlilla ground. On the other,

same number of people (app. 50,000) got

perished in Punjab since 1978 while

fighting for their just rights and against

injustices, not a single contentious issue

of Punjab has been resolved till date.

With your elevation to the exalted office

of the prime minister, the identity of

Sikhs might have got the exposure world-

wide but it is ironic that within India it-

self the constitution is ambiguous on

their distinct identity.

Earlier, we had a President and

now a prime minister from the Sikh com-

munity but even then the Constitutional

discrimination continues. During Gaini

Zail Singh’s tenure, the Indian state sent

its army to storm Darbar Sahib in 1984

and now with you as political head of the

country, the Indian state has dealt yet an-

other blow to Sikh aspirations. This re-

jection of Anand Marriage Act will surely

awaken those who were in an illusion

that "A Sikh Prime Minister will address

the problems and challenges being faced

by the community". For Sikhs nothing

has changed: the same

discriminative attitude

and biased mindset still

persists in the corridors

of power. For the past 60

years of Indian republic,

the Sikhs have strived to

find an independent and

dignified place in the

constitutional framework

so as to uphold their ex-

clusive and distinct iden-

tity. BACKGROUND:

It has been established

beyond doubt that

Sikhism is a separate religion and Sikhs

are a distinct people. However, the

framers of the constitution dealt a severe

blow to the Sikhs by not according de

jure recognition to this reality. Article 25

of the Indian constitution gives Sikhs the

right to wear the Kirpan, but Explanation

II of Article 25 (2) (b) of the constitution

still continues to classify Sikhs as Hin-

dus. This is contrary to the recommenda-

tion of the Constitutional Review

Committee in 1999. The registration of

marriage, adoption, succession, forma-

tion of a family business (as is possible

for Hindu Undivided Family) -for all

these Sikhs have to adopt a set of proce-

dures incompatible with their belief sys-

tems. Indian Parliament has amended the

Constitution at least 72 times. But not

once did it consider amending it to grant

the Sikh community its due status. You

are well aware that the Sikhs are a sepa-

rate community having their own scrip-

tures, history, culture, traditions,

language, calendar, script and all that de-

fines a ‘Nation’. The Sikh struggle to at-

tain Sovereign self-rule is also based on

the realization that ‘we as a ‘complete na-

tion’ have a right to decide our own des-

tiny’. History and events have taken the

Sikhs beyond the boundaries of the In-

dian Constitution to which the world is a

witness. The Sikhs are recognized by the

international community as a people

striving for political independence. And

this happened because of the struggle the

Sikhs waged during the past three

decades.

You may also be aware that the

Pakistan has enacted a full-fledged Sikh

Marriage Law since January, 2008, al-

though Sikh population over there is less

than 50,000. It may also interest you to

know that they asked the Sikhs to pro-

pose the law and then adopted it verbatim

without changing even a comma or full

stop. We are proud of our distinct and

separate identity. The Sikhs need their

own Personal law and the Anand Mar-

riage Act. These issues are Constitutional

matters that relate to our distinct identity

and to get them implemented a Constitu-

tional amendment to the Article 25 (b) (2)

is required. May I remind you that the

demand to amend the Article 25 was in-

cluded in the charter of demands, which

became basis for the launch of Dharam

Yudh Morcha in 1982 by the Shiromani

Akali Dal, the party that is in power in

Punjab today? We seek your intervention

in this case as the Sikhs have been strug-

gling for long time against injustice,

tyranny and state’s discrimination and

will continue with the struggle till they

achieve their rights and justice. Serious

efforts need to be initiated by you in this

regard. Guru Rakha

Kanwar Pal Singh

Secretary for Political Affairs,

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by Martin SinghDear Editor,As you may be aware, Ontarians willhead to the polls this coming October 6,2011 to vote in the 2011 Ontario provin-cial election.

The Ontario Liberal Party earlierthis week proposed an election platformpledge of $12 million in tax credits forbusinesses to defray training costs forskilled new immigrants coming to theProvince of Ontario so they can get theexperience they need to work in the jobsthey were invited to this country to do. Iam writing you today to express my deepconcern over the anti-immigrant andthinly veiled racist statements comingfrom the Progressive Conservative Partyof Ontario in response to the aforemen-tioned election proposal.

Progressive Conservative Party ofOntario leader Tim Hudak stated on sev-eral occasions earlier this week that theOntario Liberal Party's aforementionedelection proposal is "affirmative action"and "jobs for foreign workers". Thesecomments are very xenophobic anddeeply insulting to the millions of peoplecurrently living in the Province of Ontariowho were born in other countries but whoare now Canadian citizens or permanentresidents. It is also deeply insulting to theCanadian born childrenand grandchildren of these millions ofOntarians.

The Ontario Liberal Party's pro-posed $10,000 immigrant tax credit ap-plies ONLY to "regulated professions"such as lawyers, pharmacists, account-ants, ect. It does NOT apply to regular or-dinary jobs such as customer service,sales & marketing, information technl-ogy, truck driving, construction, manufac-turing, plumbing, brick laying, bus driver,government employees, handymen, landsurveying, welding, cashiers, stock boys,waiters/waitresses, ect. It will NOT isanyway, shape or form deny jobs to On-tarians who were born and raised here.The Ontario PC Party along with thierright-wing allies in the media are pander-ing to unfounded fears and lantant racism.

They are also purposely lying and deciev-ing people with thier anti-immigrantstatements which also contain thinlyveiled racism.

What you are seeing from the On-tario Progressive Conservative Party isthe politics of anger, the politics of fear,resentment and division. This is a taxcredit for businesses that hire skilled On-tarians already living here to help themachieve the training they need for Ontariocertification. So we're talking about pro-fessions like lawyer, accountants or phar-macists who need Ontario job-experiencein order to be certified here. These arefolks who are in Ontario, but might bedriving taxis instead of working in a phar-macy helping patients.

And Tim Hudak had a very simi-lar proposal last year. He introduced leg-islation for 10 per cent wage subsidy forany business hiring a skilled newcomer inOntario -- and there was no cap to theprogram.That's not all.

The Progressive ConservativeParty of Ontario seems to have a realproblem with all things "foreign." They'reagainst businesses coming to invest herein Ontario. They're against students want-ing to come here to do their research andcontribute to our economy. And nowthey're against skilled Ontarians livinghere putting their education to work forour economy.

That kind of language divides On-tarians into an “us” and a “them.” Creat-ing divisions between struggling,unemployed workers and newer immi-grants is dangerous to our long-term so-cial cohesion. In the City of Torontoalone, over half of the total populationwas born outside Canada. There is no usversus them.

They are us. And the faster we getnewcomers into good jobs in the work-force and paying higher taxes the betterfor us all.Sincerely,John Lipka

For the candidates who will join the NDPleadership race, they will face a balanc-ing act of having to speak to their fellowNDP members as well as the Canadianpopulation as a whole. No policy areawill be more difficult thanin the area of the economichealth of the nation. Cana-dians are expecting theirgovernment and any fu-ture government to havethe skill and desire to im-prove the economy byway of job creation, im-proving productivity, andencouraging and findingfinancial resources for in-novation. For the NDP, this conversationhas been entirely avoided in the past.Only recently has the party become moreopen to speaking about supporting smallbusiness, but their understanding andsupport must go much further than this.It is not to say that the NDP have to inany way copy or mimic the other parties,but they do have to show themselves ca-pable of both understanding and support-ing the business community in all of itsvarious forms. This need to be strong onthe economics file has been made moreacute of late given that the Canadianeconomy recently experienced a contrac-tion.Innovative solutions will be required inother areas as well. Health care and theproblems facing the health care systemchief among them. Health care andCanada’s health care forms the largestpublic expenditure. That is to say, noother area of government spending islarger than the amount of money spent onkeeping us healthy. The desire of Cana-dians to continue to have a well fundedhealth care system and the desire of po-litical parties to meet this need of thepopulace resulted in all three major po-litical parties promising to increasehealth care funding by 6% a year for each

year after the current Health Care Accordexpires in 2014. The difficulty with thispromise is not that it will not be kept, butrather that it cannot be kept. Canada’seconomy is not even expanding at a rate

of 2%. Even if the econ-omy were expanding at 2%,there is a gap of 4% thatneeds to be made up else-where. Canadians willneed innovative solutionsbecause the traditionalmethods of raising taxes togenerate revenue or cuttingservices to save on costs areboth considered undesir-able.

For both of the above two-mentionedpolicy areas, leadership will be required.By this I mean that the candidates willhave to have the confidence to makewhat will be difficult political decisions.Changes to either the economy or healthcare are not normally made without theperson in charge receiving more than afew political scars. Because of this,politicians often shy away from makingthe difficult decisions. In effect, thepoliticians chose their own personal in-terest ahead of the interests of the nation.This simply cannot be allowed to hap-pen. The national interest must alwayssupersede the interest of any one politi-cian or political party. Those who strivefor the office of Prime Minister mustkeep top of mind that although they wereelected on their election platform, theyare also Prime Minister for all Canadi-ans, not just the members of their ownparty or themselves personally.

Martin Singh is a pharmacist and busi-nessman who resides with his wife andthree children in Musquodoboit Harbour,Nova Scotia. In the federal NDP, Martinis the President of the Faith and SocialJustice Commission.

Judges speaking in public- Political issues need to be avoidedThe judiciary has always been recog-

nised as one of the co-equal institutions

of a state along with the executive and

the legislature. But in the recent past, the

public has magnified its stature manifold

— some may feel disproportionately; no

doubt, a great tribute. But then this

means that the judges must be prepared

to suffer a closer scrutiny of their ac-

tions. It is a hoary tradition that even

when an active politician accepts ap-

pointment as a High Court or Supreme

Court judge he is automatically expected

not to comment on political issues which

are being publicly debated — no doubt,

he is fully entitled to and many judges

do express their views strongly both dur-

ing the hearing in the court and then,

more thoughtfully but soberly, in

their judgments.

But this established restraint was

regretfully ignored recently when Jus-

tice Ganguly, a sitting judge of the

Supreme Court, at a book release func-

tion, commented on the current debate

among political parties and civil society

and opined that the Prime Minister

should be covered under the ambit of the

Lok Pal legislation. This debate at pres-

ent is in the political field, but it is pos-

sible that it may land in courts.

The learned judge will obviously

recuse himself for the simple reason that

he has expressed his views on this mat-

ter already in a public forum but it can-

not be denied that this may cause some

embarrassment to his colleagues who

may be hearing the matter (though, no

doubt, the decision will be given unin-

fluenced by what Justice Ganguly has

said) — would it not have been better if

such a situation had not been allowed

to arise.

In this connection it is good to

remember the cautionary words of

Baron De Montesquieu “When the leg-

islative and executive powers are united

in the same person or body there can be

no liberty because apprehension may

arise lest the same monarch or senate

should enact tyrannical laws, to enforce

them in a tyrannical manner………

...Were the power of judging joined with

the legislature, the life and liberty of the

subject would be exposed to arbitrary

control, for the judge would then be the

legislator. Were it joined to the executive

power, the judge might behave with all

the violence of an oppressor.” Mon-

tesquieu saw this predicament and him-

self added that there can be no liberty if

the power of judging is not separate

from the legislative and executive

powers.

The Supreme Court has accepted

that it is open to anyone to express fair,

reasonable and legitimate criticism of

any act or conduct of a judge in his ju-

dicial capacity or even to make a proper

and fair comment on any decision given

by it because “justice is not a cloistered

virtue and she must be allowed to suffer

the scrutiny and respectful, even though

outspoken, comments of ordinary men.”

But it does not follow that

judges have a similar right to question

any government policy in a public

forum. There are certain self-imposed

limitations on the public activities of the

judges which cannot be crossed without

endangering the impartiality content of

the judges.

The judges cannot purport to de-

clare the finality of an issue outside the

courts — it can only be within the

precincts of the courts and only then will

it be final and binding. The faith of the

public in the fairness and incorruptibility

of judges is a matter of great impor-

tance. This receives a blow if sitting

judges comment on political matters

outside the courtrooms and that too

without hearing the opposite view. That

is why the judges have on their own ac-

cepted the need to be governed by a

code of ethics. Bacon in his inimitable

style emphasised, “Patience and gravity

of hearing is an essential part of justice;

and an over-speaking judge is no well

tuned cymbal.”

Justice Frankfurter of the US

Supreme Court said, “All power is of an

encroaching nature. Judicial power is

not immune to this human weakness. It

must also be on guard against encroach-

ing beyond its proper bounds and not the

less so since the only restraint upon it is

self-restraint…...”

Similarly, the US Supreme

Court, in Baker vs. Carr, said that the

court’s authority ultimately rests on sus-

tained public confidence in its moral

sanction. Such feeling must be nour-

ished by the court’s complete detach-

ment, in fact, in appearance, from

political entanglements and by absten-

tion from injecting itself into the clash

of political forces in political

settlements.

Our founding fathers and moth-

ers, when framing the Constitution, were

aware of the warning given by Baron

Montesquieu and deliberately refused to

enthrone the judiciary both inside the

courts and outside where political ques-

tions are to be decided by the “civically

militant electorate”. It must also be ac-

cepted that there is nothing judicially

more unseemly nor more self-defeating

than for the courts to make interrorem

pronouncements, to indulge in merely

empty rhetoric.

No, I am not saying that judges

are to behave like coy brides when

speaking in public. My comment refers

to avoidance on political questions. Of

course, the judges must and are expected

to speak in public on matters connected

with the judiciary. I for one will fully en-

dorse a sitting judge of the Supreme

Court to speak, even harshly about the

delay in filling vacancies in the High

Courts and the Supreme Court, (284 va-

cancies out of 895 sanctioned) leading

to the cumulative pendency of

42,17,903 cases in High Courts and also

telling the public whether the delay is

because of the apathy of the government

or the judiciary itself. Sitting judges

should also publicly debate the failed

exercise of appointing an outside Chief

Justice of a High Court, and the not-so-

logical transfer of judges. Certainly, this

will also partly involve self-criticism of

the judiciary itself along with that of the

political government. But this open crit-

icism will be for the betterment of the

judiciary which the judges alone can ad-

vance. The only caveat is that judges,

even with good intentions and actuated

by a public purpose, may not venture on

the political field prohibited to

sitting judges.

Judges must always be con-

scious of the warning given by a former

Chief Justice of India, who reminded

them that though “our function is divine;

the problem begins when we start think-

ing that we have become divine.”

If I sound a bit harsh, I can only

invoke the caveat of Justice Holmes of

the US Supreme Court, who said, “I

trust that no one will understand me to

be speaking with disrespect of the law,

because I criticise it so freely… But one

may criticise even what one reveres….

And I should show less than devotion, if

I did not do what in me lies to

improve it.”

by Justice Rajindar Sachar (retd)

The Race Is OnHudak on New Canadians/Foreign Workers

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by Dr. Amarjeet Singh

The exhausted British Colonials, who

hastily quit the South Asian subcontinent

in August 1947 after World War II, left

the instruments of state power, (including

the capital city of New Delhi built by

them, under the shadow of British can-

nons, on stolen Sikh Gurdwara lands) to

a morally repugnant evil nexus of the mi-

nority Brahmin and Bania castes- hardly

5% of the population. This evil nexus

was lead, in 1947, by an anglophile Con-

gress Party leader, Pundit Jawahar Lal

Nehru, a crafty Brahmin who, used the

philosophy of ‘divide and rule’, to subju-

gate the different ‘dynastic nations’ that

lived in (British) India, like the Sikhs,

Nagas, Hydererabadis, Junagadhis,

Bhopalis and numerous other semi-inde-

pendent Native states, to setup a dynasty

of his own. Less than two years after

Pundit Nehru’s death, in 1964, his halflit-

erate daughter, (she never acquired any

college degree) Mrs. Indira Nehru, a truly

evil person, (acquired the name of the as-

sassinated founding father of India –

Gandhi) and ‘captured’ the Indian Prime

minister’s ‘throne’ and truly strengthened

the ‘Nehru’ dynastic rule. Her half-liter-

ate Italian daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sonia

Mainu also grabbed the ‘Gandhi’ name

and currently rules India, after her hus-

band Rajiv ‘Gandhi’s’ assassination – to

the eternal shame of India’s billion plus

population - like a ‘Maharani’ – queen.

To this evil, corrupt and phony Indian

ruling dynasty the muscular Sikhs, (now

numbering 28 million, of which total,

three million live FREE in prosperity and

peace in the diaspora all over the world)

are a constant source of worry and fear

lest these unpredictable, muscular, war-

rior people (whose forefathers ruled with

justice and panache in the Punjab,

North West of the Sutlej river

right up to the Afghan border, in the nine-

teenth century) decide to carve an inde-

pendent water & food-rich Sikh buffer

state of Khalistan for which every Sikh

prays daily, ‘RAJ KARAYGA KHALSA’

- Sikhs will rule. The world’s 28 million

Sikhs continue to dream and strive for a

democratic buffer Sikh-majority state of

Khalistan in their daily prayers, which

will stretch from East of the Pakistan bor-

der, to West of the Jumna river, to South

of Kashmir and to South West of Chinese

Tibet. The democratic and prosperous

buffer state of Khalistan, to millions of

Sikhs, is destined to act as a bridge of

commerce (oil and gas pipelines) be-

tween South Asia and Central Asia and

beyond. The insecurity and inferiority

complex of the corrupt Indian ‘Brahmin-

Bania’ ruling elite, has made them do

many stupid things in the past sixty four

years because of which the proud Sikhs

have suffered the most.

Right after independence in 1947

Prime minister Pundit Nehru was so sus-

picious of the Sikhs that he moved at

great expense the regimental center of In-

dian army’s Sikh regiment, (over fifty

battalions at that time) from Meerut can-

tonment (which is less than sixty kilome-

ters from New Delhi) to a god-forsaken

place in the jungles of Bihar, RAM-

GARH, over 320 Kilometers East of

Delhi. In June 1984 the daughter of Pun-

dit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Nehru,

who had by then adopted the name of the

founding father of India, ‘Gandhi’, or-

dered a massive Indian Army attack in

June 1984 on the holiest Sikh shrine of

Darbar Sahib in Amritsar (known in the

West as the Golden Temple, a unique re-

ligious institution open to people of all

religions) in which military operation

thousands of innocent Sikh men, women

and children (all pilgrims) were mur-

dered. Five months later after the assas-

sination of Mrs. Indira Nehru ‘Gandhi’,

on 31 October 1984, a nation-wide anti-

Sikh state-supervised pogrom was or-

dered by Mrs. Indira’s son, Rajiv

‘Gandhi’, (who had inherited the Prime

minister’s ‘throne’ through a back office

intrigue, hours after her death) in which

operation over ten thousand innocent

Sikh men, women and children were

murdered all over India with most of the

mass murders taking place mainly in

Delhi the capital city of India. It was a

horrible repeat of the December 1937

‘Rape of Nanking’ by the invading

Japanese army in China in which thou-

sands were murdered. Twenty seven

years have passed since the October/No-

vember 1984 state-supervised pogrom,

ordered by newly appointed Prime min-

ister Rajiv Gandhi, (now dead) for which

‘crime against humanity’ no one has been

found guilty despite numerous petitions

and protests by the Sikh community, liv-

ing all over the world.

The above factual historical back-

ground should explain why there was an

uproar among millions of Sikhs when a

report suddenly appeared (out of the

blue) in the Indian media, on Friday, 2

September, 2011, which said that, in a

surprising turn of events, the Central gov-

ernment has suddenly withdrawn the Oc-

tober 2003 Central government

notification ‘which had constitutionally

protected the small Sikh minority by al-

lowing ONLY

Keshdhari Sikhs to vote in the

elections of the Shiromani Gurdwara Par-

bandhak Committee, which elections in-

cidentally are due to be held again in

seventeen days. A Keshdhari Sikh who is

a true Sikh and is a generous person who

does not cut his hair (and wears a turban

on his head, believes in all tenets of

Sikhism, follows all rituals of the Sikh re-

ligion and follows all Sikh principles like

for example; he does not follow any other

religion; does not use tobacco in any

form; does not consume alcohol; does not

eat halal meat and knows the Mool Man-

tar (Ek Onkar, Satnam etc. A link to the

above mentioned report, by Saurabh

Malik, published on Friday, September 2,

2011, in the Chandigarh-based TRIB-

UNE newspaper headlined, “SGPC poll

may be put off, Sehajdharis can now

vote; Centre withdraws 2003 notifica-

tion, claims it was issued without appli-

cation of mind,” is given below; (>

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110

902/main1.htm <) The Union of India,

was represented before the High court by

Harbhagwan Singh, a former advocate

general of Punjab, who informed the Full

Bench of the Court (made up by Justice

M.M. Kumar, Justice Alok Singh and

Justice Gurdev Singh) that the notifica-

tion dated October 8, 2003, has been can-

celled by the Indian government and

stands withdrawn. Harbhagwan Singh,

representing the Central government said

that the notification was issued, “without

any application of mind, only on the basis

of a resolution passed by the SGPC on

March 3, 2002”. The notification was is-

sued during the NDA regime under

Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee a year be-

fore the (Cont.. to next page)

Indian rulers and SGPC electionsSome September musings on the controversy, cooked up recently by the Indian

rulers over the coming SGPC elections in the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, KHALISTAN

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2004 General Elections. In the nine years

since the October 8, 2003, date of the no-

tification no legal action was taken to

make it a Law of the land. A few months

back, an application was filed before the

High Court by the national president of

Sehajdhari Sikh Federation (whose mem-

bers unlike the Keshdhari Sikhs are not

distinguishable like the Keshdhari Sikhs

– anyone can clain he is a Sehajdhari

Sikh) Dr Paramjeet Singh Ranu, seeking

a stay on the SGPC elections, slated to be

held on September 18, 2011. He asserted

a writ petition was earlier filed, challeng-

ing the October 2003 notification “vide

which the voting rights of the Sehajdhari

Sikhs have been taken away in a totally il-

legal and arbitrary manner”. The Bench

asserted in the open court: “In the view of

the statement by senior advocate Harb-

hagwan Singh, the reference made to the

Full Bench is rendered infructuous and is

disposed of as such.”

After seeing the current angry re-

action of the Sikh community world wide

to the reports that the Central government

in Delhi has cancelled the notification

dated October 8, 2003 which HAD re-

stricted the SGPC election to a Keshdhari

electorate and the Sikhs were in no mood

to tolerate any shenanigans by the Central

government, the rulers in Delhi beat a

hasty retreat. Four days later a New Delhi

datelined report dated 6 September, 2011,

written by Aditi Tandon, (>

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110

906/main4.htm <) headlined, “Govt:

Counsel didn’t represent us properly,” ap-

peared in the TRIBUNE newspaper, on 6

September, 2011, which quoted the Indian

Law minister, Salman Khursheed, as say-

ing that, “all the blame for the SGPC poll

controversy rests on senior counsel Harb-

hagwan Singh, who failed to represent the

government adequately in the case and he

had therefore been withdrawn”. Asked

why a senior counsel like Harbhagwan

Singh would say something of his own ac-

cord and why had someone in the Govern-

ment not asked him to say so, minister

Khursheed replied, that, “The Home Min-

ister has said he would have that part

looked into. So far as we go, we have no

intentions of doing anything excepting

withdrawing the said counsel. No further

action would help anyone. The matter

stands rested.” Asked to comment on

Harbhagwan’s claim that he received a

call from a government official, Khur-

sheed said, “He received a call. That’s

fine. But what did the caller tell him? The

caller simply told him to argue the case

according to the law, which he failed to

do. Did the caller ask him to say what he

said”. Law minister Khursheed ruled out

any action against the counsel Harbhag-

wan Singh from the Law Ministry side

and said the withdrawal of the counsel

was sufficient. He added that the SGPC

poll would take place as per the schedule.

The Law Ministry’s role in the matter is

important as this ministry engaged Harb-

hagwan Singh for the case. But Khur-

sheed explained, “Some local Congress

leaders asked us to appoint a senior coun-

sel to deal with the case they thought was

not being properly argued. We asked them

who they wanted us to engage. They rec-

ommended Harbhagwan Singh and we

engaged him. In the High Court, he did

not conduct himself in the manner he

should have. So we immediately with-

drew him.” Obviously the angry reaction

of the Sikh population gave pause to the

crafty, morally repugnant Brahmin/Bania

ruling elite.

A yet another conspiracy to divide

the Sikhs was aborted and doomed.

It is obvious that the morally repugnant

evil nexus of the crafty Brahmin and the

greedy Bania minorities, which rules

India, and was party to the 1984 Anti-Sikh

state-sponsored pogrom of murder and

arson, in which over ten thousand inno-

cent Sikh men, women and children were

murdered all over India, has not given up

in its evil aim of destroying the political

will of the proud and muscular Sikh na-

tion. They have NOT understood that self

preservation is the first principle of a

Sikh’s nature. THE PROUD SIKHS

WILL SURVIVE AS A NATION

CALLED KHALISTAN.

Khalistan Zindabad

Indian rulers and SGPC elections

Olivia Chow says Layton's legacy lives onOlivia Chow said she sees her husband

Jack Layton in every kind and generous

deed performed by those around her.

Layton lost his battle to cancer

last month after temporarily stepping

down earlier this summer as leader of the

New Democratic Party.

His death sent many across the

country into a period of mourning, with

tens of thousands paying their respects in

Ottawa, where his body was lying in

state, and then in Toronto, where it was

lying in repose before a state funeral.

Thousands of mourners wrote

messages of support in downtown

Toronto's Nathan Philip Square in a chalk

tribute that took up much of the concrete

park and many across the country ex-

pressed their condolences.

Chow told that, the outpouring of

grief has been accompanied by an over-

whelming show of support for her family.

"It feels like a big warm blanket

covering me with love and support, and

it's just wonderful,

it proves Jack is

right to be opti-

mistic," Chow said.

"He be-

lieves in the good-

ness in people and

he feels if you

touch and connect

with that goodness,

some call it love,

others call it hope,

then people will re-

spond... and the outpouring is affirmation

of that belief."

Chow, who recently said she will

not try to succeed her husband as leader

of the Official Opposition, said it was es-

pecially difficult to cope in the first few

days after Layton died.

Eventually she sought advice

from others who

had gone through

similar experi-

ences and turned

to coping mecha-

nisms such as

swimming and

running, and put-

ting her family's

affairs in order, to

help her deal with

her grief.

" T h e r e ' s

also that belief that Jack and I both shared

that some of the things we share, some of

the values we have, are eternal, like love,

like hope for the future, like believing

that when we come together we can make

things happen, we can change the world,"

Chow said.

"Those kinds of things help me

deal with not being able to spend more

time with him, dealing with his death."

Chow said Layton's legacy is the

belief, as he wrote in the final line of his

farewell letter to Canadians, that opti-

mism is better than despair, and that pol-

itics doesn't have to be a divisive, cynical

business.

"Jack kept talking about working

together no matter where you come from,

and in order to work together you have to

trust each other whether it's in life, in

work, in personal life, or in politics," she

said. Layton will live on through all those

who were inspired by his life, Chow said.

"Every time I see an act of kindness or

generosity I think ah, his legacy lives on

in action, so it makes it a lot easier."

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Healing, Hope and Humanity: Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

OPP Labour Day Long Weekend WrapupAURORA, ON, Sept. 7, 2011 - With the

2011 Labour Day Weekend behind them,

the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have

tallied up their numbers and are ready to

release statistics relating to this last long

weekend of summer. OPP officers were

seen in high numbers targeting aggressive

drivers, distracted drivers, those who

drove impaired and those in violation of

seatbelt and child restraint laws. Prelimi-

nary statistics indicate that over the

Labour Day Weekend, 3 people died on

roads, trails and waterways patrolled by

the OPP compared to 8 people this same

weekend last year. "I have mixed feelings

about this number because while there

were significantly fewer deaths this year,

even one fatality is unacceptable," said

OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis.

"Clearly our scaled up 24/7 enforcement

is making a difference but when I look at

the number of charges we laid this past

weekend, almost every number is up.

This tells me that Ontarians need to make

changes in many aspects of their driving

habits so that we are working together to

keep Ontario's roads, waterways and

trails safe," added Lewis. Province-wide,

the OPP laid 6,472 speeding charges this

past weekend (compared to 5,889 in

2010). There were 91 street racing

charges laid (64 in 2010). Seatbelt

charges are up this year with 539 being

laid (483 in 2010).

A total of 120 charges were laid

for driving while impaired by drugs or

having a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)

of above 0.08 (115 in 2010). The OPP

also issued 105 roadside license suspen-

sions to drivers with a BAC in the warn

range of 0.05 to 0.08 (compared to 247 in

2010). "As part of our award-winning

Provincial Traffic Safety Program

(PTSP), our traffic enforcement efforts

are in place around the clock, 365 days a

year. As a highly dedicated and innova-

tive police service, the OPP is committed

to finding new ways to make Ontario's

roads and highways among the safest,"

said Deputy Commissioner Larry

Beechey, Provincial Commander respon-

sible for the OPP Traffic Safety. As of Au-

gust 31, 194 people have died in motor

vehicle collisions in 2011 compared to

213 for the same period in 2010, a de-

crease of 9.1 percent.

by Dr. Tarunjit Singh (Butalia)Secretary General, WSC-AR

Several weeks ago I was visiting

my doctor. On entering the small waiting

room, a three-year-old child playing in the

corner looked up at me and exclaimed to

his mother "Mom -- there is the bad

guy."Then silence descended on the wait-

ing room. There were only the three of us

in the room -- the child, his mom, and me.

The child went back to playing with the

legos. The mom and I silently looked at

each other for a few minutes or so but it

seemed like eternity.What could one say

to a 3-year-old who shared what was on

his mind? How could I get mad at this lit-

tle child for exhibiting such prejudice?

These are the questions that went through

my mind and probably through the mind

of the embarrassed mother.But soon my

thoughts shifted to the ill-fated morning

of 9/11/01. I remember being in New

Hampshire that morning getting ready to

go to the Boston airport for a flight back

home. The horrific news of the attacks

was shocking and disgusting. The Boston

airport was shut down and I was told to

drive my rental car home -- all the way to

Ohio. So I began the journey home on the

evening of 9/11. Nearly all fellow travel-

ers were courteous and understanding ex-

cept one who screamed at me and showed

me half of a peace sign...While driving

home I recollected the following verse

from Siri Guru Granth Sahib -- the Sikh

scripture (English translation):Merciful

God, keep all beings and creatures in Your

care.Give them an abundance of grain and

water; eliminate their pain and poverty;

ferry them across.The Great Benefactor

heard our cry; the parched earth was ren-

dered green and my smoldering heart was

made cool.Keep us in Your Embrace; re-

move all obstructions.Nanak, stay im-

mersed in the Name and be forever

fulfilled.America was attacked on 9/11 by

terrorists who used their twisted interpre-

tations of Islam to justify their horrible

deeds. That was not the only attack on

America. Muslims and anyone who

looked like them were attacked soon

thereafter to cleanse America of these ter-

rorist look-alikes.Observant Sikh men

wear the turban in the public to cover their

hair as a religious head covering. Islam

does not require Muslim men to wear the

turban. Rarely does a Muslim American

man wear a turban on a regular basis. In

fact, if you see a man wearing a turban on

the street, you can be quite sure that he is

a Sikh.However, repeated media images

of Muslim radicals from Middle East

countries wearing turbans were enough to

arouse the passions of a backlash. Soon

after 9/11, many Sikhs became a Muslim

in the eyes of some of our misinformed

fellow Americans.One of the first casual-

ties of this backlash was a Sikh gas station

owner in Mesa, Arizona -- Balbir Singh

Sodhi. He was gunned down on Septem-

ber 15 in a drive by shooting. His attacker,

Frank Roque, shot Balbir fatally five

times and then proceeded to take his

vengeance on a Lebanese worker as well

as a local Afghan family. When arrested

by police at his home, Frank shouted "I'm

a patriot ... I'm an American. Arrest me

and let those terrorists run wild?" as he

was led away in handcuffs.The wheels of

justice may be slow but they do turn. In

2003 the murderer of Balbir was con-

victed of first-degree murder and sen-

tenced to the death penalty. The family of

Balbir then requested a pardon for the

death penalty of Frank Roque. Balbir's

brother was quoted in a newspaper report:

"We have lost our Balbir and have suf-

fered the intense pain of losing him. Now

we realize that the same would be the case

with family of Frank, which, we don't

want. What is the crime of his family?" In

2006 the Arizona Supreme Court over-

turned Roque's death sentence and instead

sentenced him to life in prison.What an

honorable and gracious act of love by a

brother towards the murderer of his loving

brother. This reminds me of the

eternal forgiveness that Sikhs

are called upon to uphold. It is

said that a Sikh will forgive in a

moment but not forget in a hun-

dred years.There have been

countless attacks on Sikh places

of worship as well as individual

Sikhs. Fortunately such inci-

dents have largely been aberra-

tions for the large majority of

Sikhs. We continue to live

among our fellow Americans of

all (and no) faiths proudly up-

holding the values and traditions

of our faith as laid down by the

Sikh Gurus. Since 9/11 we have

seen the increased visible pres-

ence of Sikh Coalition and

SALDEF -- two excellent Sikh

civil rights organizations. Sikhs

have always been a strong com-

munity but now we are more

empowered because of the tire-

less efforts of such coalitions.

And just recently Valarie Kaur,

filmmaker of "Divided We

Fall," launched Groundswell --

a multifaith network that aims to

connect, mobilize, and amplify

the moral center around social

causes.But more needs to be

done. Many Sikhs will declare

authoritatively (and rightfully

so) that Sikhs are not Muslims.

It is true that prejudice against

Sikhs is misdirected. However

dealing with misdirected preju-

dice does not mean that we

should be spared at the expense

of our fellow Muslim Ameri-

cans. We should take inspiration

from the Ninth Sikh Guru, Siri

Guru Tegh Bahaadar Sahib,

who gave up his life in 1675 to

protect the practices of the

Hindu faith even though he did

not believe in the practices of

that faith. Sikhs, as well as be-

lievers of other faiths, need to

continue to stand in solidarity

with Muslims to reduce Islamo-

phobia in our country.By now

the embarrassed mother and I

had silently looked at each other

for more than a few minutes. Then she

gracefully hugged the child and looked at

me. She asked about me and my family. I

shared a photo of our three kids. And then

I stumbled onto a BlackBerry photo of our

five-year-old son holding a rock bass that

he had caught the day before on a fishing

trip. The boy was thrilled to see this and

exclaimed "Mom -- when can I go fish-

ing?" By then it was my turn to see the

doctor. As I left my chair, the mom and

son together waved at me exclaiming

"Good bye good guy!"The child's mom

did not verbally apologize to me during

our encounter. She did more than that. She

responded by asking us to share our hu-

manity with each other so the innocent

child could feel the human passion and be

freed of prejudice.Here lies the lesson for

all of us. While as a community we all are

healing from the aftereffects of 9/11, our

hope for the future lies in our shared hu-

manity. The edifices of religious prejudice

and hate are built upon foundations of de-

humanization of the religious other. It is

time for us to re-humanize our fellow

human beings to develop increased mu-

tual respect and promote shared security.

We are only as secure as the least among

us.Siri Guru Granth Sahib proclaims this

universality (English translation) as:No

one is enemy, no one is stranger.

I get along with all.I have forgot-

ten my jealousy of others, since I found

the company of the spiritually enlight-

ened.Whatever God does, I accept that as

good. This is the sublime wisdom I have

obtained from the spiritually enlight-

ened.The One God pervades all. Gazing

upon God, beholding God, Nanak blos-

soms forth in happiness.

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TORONTO, Sept. - This year anumber of high-profile Canadiancelebrities are lending their star-power to CIBC's 2011 CanadianBreast Cancer Foundation CIBCRun for the Cure campaign, join-ing the 170,000 Canadians whoparticipate to support a cause thatis important to them. ETCanada's Rosey Edeh, Canadianactress Lisa Ray and Olympicmedalists Catriona Le MayDoan, Cheryl Pounder andHeather Davis are featured inCIBC's ads encouraging Canadi-ans to register for the event onSunday, October 2."We are thrilled that these high

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The new e-newsletterdesign introduced this monthis to compliment the new ex-citing and informative website,jassikhangura.com, whichJassi launched recently. Thewebsite consists of all con-stituency related information.It also has a separate sectionfor NRIs.Jassi stated that his old sitewhich started over 7 years ago,has served as a great tool withwhich to contact with support-ers everywhere. From simplebeginnings the old site hadbeen regularly enhanced andhad become a regular refer-ence point for many.With delimitation resulting inthe abolition of Halqa QilaRaipur (incidentally the onlyGrewal-centric constituencythat Punjab ever had) Jassi de-cided it was time for a com-plete new start, not just a makeover.The new site fully reflectsJassi’s personality. It is loud

but not over powering. Thehome page is less busy, thetabs are fewer and the pagesare logically listed.Jassi says, ‘this is now my onestep portal for information onDakha and Qila Raipur areasas well as having a separatesection for NRIs.” He contin-ues to say, “I wanted to replacemy old website with some-thing more relevant to people’sneeds and requirements today,hence it has a Facebook plu-gin, which acknowledges theimportance of that to our usersalso.”The site has been developed tohelp people find the informa-tion they want, including dataon villages and a specially de-signed section explaining howNRIs can register to vote inIndia.Jassi welcomes feedback aboutthe new site. Do you like it?Any downloading issues? Canyou find what you are lookingfor?

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London: The

world's oldest

marathon runner

has revealed that

drinking cups of tea

and eating ginger

curry, combined

with "being

happy", has helped

him train for 10

miles every day

since he turned

100. Fauja Singh

took up marathon

running after his

89th birthday and

has now completed

seven races. He

holds the world

record for the men's

over-90 category

after completing

the 2003 Toronto

marathon in five

hours and 40 min-

utes.

The 100-year-old

now hopes to take

part in the Edin-

burgh 26.2-mile

race as part of a

four-man relay

team with an aver-

age age of 86.

Launching the

opening of entries

for the Edinburgh

Marathon Festival

2012, he said: "I am

not a learned per-

son in any shape or

form. To me, the

secret is being

happy, doing char-

ity work, staying

healthy and being

positive. "If some-

one says I must

stop running I ig-

nore them - invari-

ably they're

younger than me.

The secret to a long

and healthy life is

to be stress-free. If

there's something

you can't change

then why worry

about it? Be grate-

ful for everything

you have, stay

away from people

who are negative,

stay smiling and

keep running."

Born in India on

April 1 1911, Fauja

was a farmer in the

Punjab when he

first developed a

love for running,

but he only took the

sport seriously

when he moved to

the UK 50 years

later. He started

challenging other

pensioners to races

and has now run

five marathons in

London, one in

Toronto and one in

New York.

The 10th Edin-

burgh Marathon

Festival weekend

will be held in May

next year with or-

ganisers hoping to

break all previous

records and raise

more than £4.5 mil-

lion in 2012. Race

director Neil Kil-

gour said: "Edin-

burgh Marathon

Festival has it all -

a great city that acts

as a stunning back-

drop to the event's

proceedings and a

programme of

races that means

that everyone is

catered for, from

children to

marathon veter-

ans."

C H A N D I G A R H :

Sukhbir Singh Badal,

President Shiromani

Akali Dal today con-

gratulated the Sikh

community and all pan-

thic forces for unitedly

foiling the designs of

Congress party through

its henchmen like Cap-

tain Amarinder Singh

and his coterie to make

their backdoor entry in

the SGPC, the Parlia-

ment of Sikhs. He said

that conspiracy of Con-

gress party to postpone

the SGPC elections in-

definitely has been

nipped in the bud.

Addressing the media here today,

the SAD President lashed at Cap-

tain Amarinder Singh and his Anti-

Panthic coterie Sarna, Barnala and

Ravi Inder for unsuccessfully try-

ing to scuttle SGPC elections fear-

ing their complete wipe out. He

said that Amarinder had been since

2002 hatching conspiracies to gain

control over SGPC through its

proxy Anti-Panthic forces of

Sarna, Barnala and Ravi Inder and

now with the statement of Union

Home Minister, Amarinder stands

fully exposed in the full glare of

public.

Badal said that congress party was

rattled with the unprecedented

support of Sikhs and all Punjabis

to Shiromani Akali Dal candidates

and Amarinder seeing writing on

the wall for ensuing Vidhan Sabha

elections, decided to scuttle this

process to create confusion

amongst the masses.

He said that petition in High

Court for voting right to Sehajdari

was part of this conspiracy and in

during his tenure as CM

Amarinder even forcibly try to

kidnap SAD SGPC members to

coerce and lure them to back anti-

panthic forces of Sarna, Barnala

and Ravi Inder that fell on their

face as no body agreed to backstab

Shiromani Akali Dal.

The SAD President said that now

after delaying the SGPC elections

for more than two years, now fear-

ing clean sweep by SAD in these

elections, Amarinder influenced

his former Advocate General

Chaudhary Harbhagwan, who is

also standing counsel for union

government to give statement tak-

ing back 2003 notification, to cre-

ate confusion and scuttle the

smooth process of SGPC elec-

tions.

Sukhbir Singh Badal said that

fearing onslaught by Sikhs from

across the globe for this atrocious

interference in the internal reli-

gious affairs of Sikhs, Union

Home Minister Mr. P Chi-

dambram was forced to bow to

anger of Sikhs and clarify in the

parliament matter that Union

Home Ministry has not taken back

the notification of 2003 regarding

voting rights of Sikhs and had not

authorized anyone to give state-

ment in this regard. He said that in

view of this clarification by Union

Home Minister, a High Level en-

quiry should be ordered to expose

the nexus of Chaudhary Harbhag-

wan with anti-panthic forces.

The Akali Dal warns the congress

and the anti-panthic forces that the

Sikhs under no circumstances

shall not allow their interference in

the internal religious matter of

Sikh community.

Explain deficit in GoldenTemple accounts: Capt

Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh

Congress Committee presi-

dent Capt Amarinder Singh

today asked the Shiromani

Gurdwara Parbhandhak

Committee (SGPC) to ex-

plain the deficit of Rs 23

crore in the Darbar Sahib ac-

counts, despite the large in-

flow of devotees.

In a statement here today,

Amarinder Singh maintained

that the needle of suspicion

pointed towards those who

were at the helm of affairs

(SGPC). He said there had al-

ways been reports of the

SGPC funds being misappro-

priated.

The former Chief Minister

said he had information that

cable channels, that were

controlled by Sukhbir’s

henchmen, had withheld

about Rs 12 crore due to Dar-

bar Sahib for the live telecast

of kirtan. “It is shameful that

the owners of these channels

are minting money in the

name of the Guru, but are not

ready to pay their dues to the

shrine,” he observed.

Maintaining that the issue

was scandalous, he said it

showed how poor the SGPC

management was. Of the 86

gurdwaras, 42 had deficit ac-

counts.

He said, this was because the

SGPC had failed in its

Dharam Parchar mission. The

SGPC elections had alienated

the Sahajdharis whose num-

ber was up to 62 lakh. He

asked the SGPC to explain as

to how much money had been

spent on Dharam Parchar in

the last budget. The PCC

president welcomed the Cab-

inet approval of a “farmer

friendly” Land Acquisition

Bill. He said,when the Con-

gress government came to

power, the Bill would be im-

plemented in letter and spirit

and the Gobindpura farmers

would also be given compen-

sation accordingly. He said

the farmers could not expect

much from Chief Minister

Parkash Singh Badal, who

was only buying time to en-

sure that the farmers called

off their stir.

He lashed out at the Chief

Minister and the Deputy

Chief Minister for not paying

enough attention to those af-

fected by the recent floods

and being too busy with cam-

paigning for the SGPC elec-

tions. “When people are

clamouring for relief, the fa-

ther-son duo is busy seeking

votes for the SGPC”, he

pointed out, while asking the

government to take immedi-

ate flood relief measures

Congress attempt top stage backdoor entry into SGPCthrough Amarinder and his coetrie: Sukhbir Badal

100-yr-old Sikh world'soldest marathon runner

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Less than four months after a

mysterious bomb went off in its

parking lot, a powerful blast

ripped through the reception

counter of the Delhi High Court

complex in the heart of the capi-

tal on Wednesday, leaving at

least 11 people dead and more

than 75 injured.

Even as a red alert was sounded

in the city, an email sent to vari-

ous media organisations claimed

responsibility for the blast on be-

half of the ‘Harkat-ul-Jihadi.'

The claim, sent from harkatulji-

hadi2011@gmail.com, threat-

ened similar blasts at the

Supreme Court and other major

High Courts if Parliament attack

case convict Afzal Guru's death

sentence was not “repealed.”

(sic).

While 57 of the injured have

been admitted to the Ram

Manohar Lohia Hospital, others

have been referred to the Sir

Ganga Ram Hospital, Apollo

Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital,

Moolchand Hospital and JPNA

Trauma Centre of the AIIMS.

The identity of all the deceased,

including a 55-year-old woman

and three elderly men, has been

established.

Compensation

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dik-

shit announced that Rs. 4 lakh in

compensation would be paid to

the families of the deceased, Rs.

2 lakh to the injured for perma-

nent incapacitation, Rs. 1 lakh to

those with serious injury, and Rs.

10,000 for those who suffered

minor injury.

Preliminary analysis of the sam-

ples collected from the spot has

suggested that a mixture of some

plastic explosive, such as PETN,

and ammonium nitrate had been

used to configure the bomb kept

in a briefcase.

“However, the exact composition

will be established through

proper laboratory tests,” said a

senior officer.

It all happened at 10.14 a.m.

when scores of litigants had

queued up at the reception desk

counters, adjacent to Gate No. 5

of the complex, to collect entry

passes. The deafening explosion

created a two-foot crater on the

cemented platform, blew off the

tin roof and sent splinters flying

in all directions. All those stand-

ing in a five-metre radius were

knocked off their feet.

According to eyewitnesses, the

bomb was probably planted in a

briefcase placed near a stone

bench on the right side of the re-

ception desk. Based on the de-

scriptions provided by two

eyewitnesses, the police prepared

two sketches of the suspects. A

witness claimed that he saw one

of the suspects, wearing kurta-

pyjama, fleeing towards Purana

Qila and he tried to chase him,

but he escaped.

Rahul Gupta, a visibly shaken

public interest litigation litigant,

said: “I was about to collect my

pass when I heard a loud explo-

sion that shook the earth. There

was smoke all around. I saw peo-

ple lying on the ground, some

piled up on each other. They

were all covered in blood, their

clothes torn into shreds. Pieces of

clothes were hanging from a tree

over the reception desk. Some

had lost their limbs. I escaped

with splinter injuries on the right

hand.”

As many as 22 police control

room vans reached the spot and

swiftly removed the injured to

hospitals with the help of

lawyers and volunteers. The area

was cordoned off and the site

covered with a plastic sheet to

protect the evidence from the

rain.

Officers of the National Investi-

gation Agency and the Delhi Po-

lice, personnel of the National

Disaster Response Force and

bomb experts of the National Se-

curity Guard rushed to the site to

gather evidence.

No CCTVs

The police found that no closed-

circuit television cameras had

been installed at any of the entry

gates.

Union Home Minister P. Chi-

dambaram visited the site around

1 p.m. Later in the evening,

Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh went to the Ram Manohar

Lohia Hospital to enquire about

the injured.

A case has been registered by the

Special Cell of the Delhi Police.

While efforts are on to identify

those behind the attack, the blast

is being perceived as a sequel to

an ammonium nitrate-fuelled,

low-intensity explosion outside

Gate No.7 of the High Court on

May 25. No one was injured in

that incident. The case remains

unsolved.

Sketches of two suspects releasedPolice on Wednesday released

sketches of two persons sus-

pected of planting the bomb

outside Delhi High Court

which killed at least 11 people

and injured over 60.

The sketches of the duo -- one

believed to be in his 50s and

the other in his mid-20s --

were prepared following de-

scriptions provided by eyewit-

nesses who claimed they saw

someone with a briefcase

standing in the queue.

“We have released sketches of

two suspects based on the de-

scriptions given by eyewit-

nesses,” a senior police official

said.The younger of the two

suspects could be a couple of

inches shorter than 6 feet with

a middle parting of the hair

while the other man was de-

scribed as stout and having a

light beard and shallow com-

plexion.

“We may also release a third

sketch depending upon the

eyewitness accounts,” the offi-

cial said.

Police are also investigating

whether the person who

planted the bomb was among

the injured.

According to some eyewit-

nesses, a man clad in a white

shirt and carrying a briefcase

was seen in the queue in front

of the reception of the high

court complex on Shershah

Road just before the explosion.

Investigators said they are yet

to ascertain whether there was

a timer in the device.

“It may be possible that the

bomb planter could not escape

from the spot before the explo-

sion took place. If there was a

timer, he would have had

ample time. There is also a

possibility that the suspect

could not manage to escape

from the scene,” a senior po-

lice official said.

Blast in Delhi High Court complex kills 11

The reception area of the Delhi High Court complex soon after a blast on Wednesday. (Right) A sketch of the suspects released by the police.

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September 08, 2011 11Courageous Journalism

B-Town's taken to Ganesh

Chaturthi celebrations in a big way this

year, but if there's any one actor for

whom it's been a tradition, it's actor Neil

Nitin Mukesh. The actor makes it a point

to be home for his most favourite festival

in the year — getting Ganesha home is

now a tradition for his family for the last

18 years. "The Mukesh household is

brimming with people and activity right

now. It's always been my favourite festi-

val, the mood of people is generally dif-

ferent around this time. It's also a time

when my entire family comes together —

we all eat, live and have fun for the 10

days that Ganeshji is home," beams Neil.

The actor is more than happy

this year, as his shooting sched-

ules could be worked out as that

he could be home for all the 10

days. Till date, he rues the fact

that he missed the celebrations

two years ago, when he was

shooting for film New York

abroad.

Neil explains the preparations

that goes into bringing the idol

home. The preparations start

months in advance and everyone

loves to pitch in.

"The idol is made to order three

months before and painted to

perfection with the right colours.

The mukut (crown) is especially

brought in from Vrindavan for

the idol," he informs, adding

that the arrangements in terms

of the decoration are done by

him and his close friends.

"I have designed the pandal,

while my mom has chosen the

background. A lot of women

from our area come and tie

rakhis to Bappa. It's become a

tradition over the years. Even

children from the neighbouring

societies and lanes also gather

for the morning pooja's and

aarti's," he says.

For Neil, Ganpati is also a time to give

full attention to his family, every one of

them who come visiting. "Our Ganpati

celebrations are bigger than a wedding in

the family and it goes on for 10 days. I

normally work throughout the year with-

out breaks, but this is one time of the year

I request my team to juggle my schedules

as I want to be home and serve Ganeshji,"

he says.But the one thing he does not wait

for is the visarjan. He recalls the time he

cried at a visarjan. "The first year that we

got Him, He was only there for a day and

a half. I remember crying when He left

the house and since then I love getting

Him home for 10 days," says Neil.

Star dancer-filmmaker Prabhudeva is

planning a quiet meeting with Madhuri

Dixit in her hometown Denver, which

sources say is a bid to convince her to

dance with him in his comeback film.

Prabhudeva, after his controversial mar-

riage with South actor Nayanthara, will

star again in a film after a long gap. The

film is said to be inspired by the Holly-

wood hit Just Dance. Sources say that it

might be his last Bollywood film in

which he plays the lead.

"Prabhu will have a quiet meeting with

Madhuri next month, where they are

planning to discuss as well as recount the

song that they danced in (Que Sera Kera

in Pukaar) 11 years back. He wants to re-

vive the same magic on screen once

again," says a source.

Madhuri has apparently told that she 'will

think about it' and in all probabilities,

might make a cameo appearance in the

film. "Prabhu will be auditioning the

original heroines of Step Up (Briana Evi-

gan of Step Up 2 and Sharni Vinson of

Step Up 3). At the same time, it will be

great if Prabhu gets to dance in a number

with Madhuri Dixit. He's also scheduled

to hold some dance class workshops

there. In between the auditions and the

workshops, he will take a two-day break

to travel to Denver," says the source.

Sources say that the film is probably

going to his last acting assignment.

"Prabhu is leaving no stone unturned for

the film as he knows that his opportuni-

ties as a hero has become limited," says

the source.

Losing your mind over what to wear on

your wedding day? Well, if the style

statements our celebs have set on their

big day, of late, are anything to go by,

then you needn't look further than the

humble sari for inspiration.

Actor Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan had

donned a traditional Kanjeevaram sari on

the wedding day, a few years ago, and

many more seem to be doing the same

lately. Actor Lara Dutta draped a cream

and gold traditional sari for her court

marriage, actor Kalki Koelchin took her

saat pheras in a white silk sari with an

elaborate border to match. More recently,

actor Celina Jaitly got hitched in a figure

hugging, flowy sari.

Designers say that a sari can never go out

of style for a variety of reasons. "A tradi-

tional sari has his own charm. But nowa-

days people are opting for ready-to-wear

saris and are experimenting with fusion

styles among other things," says designer

Archana Kochchar. She adds that saris in

flowy fabrics are more preferred, because

they cling to the body exuding a more

sexy look. "One can also opt for kalis in-

stead of regular pleats and shorter

and structured pallus. This will en-

sure that the bride doesn't have to

worry about the drape coming off

at the function and can just enjoy

her big day," says Archana.

Designer Mandira Wirk is all for

pre-stitched saris. "That way the

drape stays intact and looks flawless, ac-

centuating curves just as the wearer wants

it. The sari is one of the most attractive

garments we have and the best part is that

a pre-stitched one suits everybody. One

can work on what to highlight and what

to camoflage," states Mandira.

Designer Rimi Nayak says that though

the options are endless, materials like

French lace, soft silks, Jamevars and

Kalamkaris accentuated with buttas, zar-

dosi, crystals and the like are the front-

runners in sari trends this season.

Bappa celebrations bigger than wedding

What's brewing Prabhudeva?

Proud that it'sa sari situation

…says actor Neil Nitin Mukesh about the ongoingGanesh celebrations at the Mukesh household

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