The idea of weaponization got a fillip from an unexpected quarter.
In the last week of October 1985, Rajiv met US President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan told Rajiv, Pakistan has already made a bomb.
When Rajiv started talking about disarmament, the US president cut him short, Don t talk theory, think of your own protection.
It could have been a random shootout in Lahore except for the fact that the man known as Malik Sardar Singh in his society was in fact dreaded terrorist Paramjit Singh Panjwar, long wanted by Indi…
1186 Gen Vaidya was in the thick of the bloodiest battles of the 1971 war in the western sector. Tribune Archives: Photo by Yog Joy
Sujan Dutta
On a cold winter night when his men in the tanks were still waiting to weave a way through fields that could explode under their tracks, the Brigadier hustled from one machine to another. Stopping at the head of a column where a trawl tank was in the lead, he spoke a few words with another officer, a Sapper, on what the least risky path would be.
There was no guarantee that the least risky meant it would also be safe. This would be the third minefield in a row. The semi-official history of the war would later record it as 1,460 yards wide.
Highlights
Khalistan means The Land of Khalsa i.e. a separate nation for the Khalsa or a separate nation for the Sikhs.
Khalsa was founded in the year 1699 by Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru of the Sikhs.
Khalsa means pure but over time, the idea was changed and it got politicised.
Amid the ongoing discussion about Khalistan in India, on Thursday we bring you the answers to questions like what is Khalistan and how its objectives are dangerous for India s national unity and integrity. Let us tell the history and current situation of Khalistan and also how the idea of Sikhistan took the form of Khalistan.