because the truth needs to be told
The Secretary of Political Affairs of the pro-Sikh body Dal Khalsa -Kanwar Pal Singh has shared a communique sent to heads of the missions in New Delhi of the G20 participants, sharing a regional perspective on the economic, especially trade mandate of this gr... More »
“Jo Bole So Nihal” chant of Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh greeting each other and boldly hosting the Sikh war cry rends the air in Tihar in the early morning hours of 6 January 1989, while the jail inmates were still sleeping, their families are waiting outsid... More »
ਸੱਤ ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਦੇ ਅਫਜ਼ਲ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੀ ਤਿਹਾੜ ਜੇਲ ਦੀ ਚਾਰ ਦਿਵਾਰੀ ਅੰਦਰ ਅਚਾਨਕ ਫਾਹੇ ਲਗਾ ਦਿਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ, ਉਹ ਸ਼ਾਤ, ਅਡੋਲ ਅਤੇ ਰੱਬ ਦੀ ਰਜ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੀ। ਜੇਲਰ ਸੁਨੀਲ ਗੁਪਤਾ ਨੇ ਉਸਨੂੰ ਫਾਂਸੀ ਲਗਦੇ ਨੂੰ ਦੇਖਿਆ ਸੀ, ਉਪਰੰਤ ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਘਰ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਪਰਿਵਾਰ ਨਾਲ ਫੁੱਟ-ਫੁੱਟ ਕੇ ਰੋ ਪਿਆ। ਸੁਨ... More »
A picture of serenity, Maqbool Bhat read his last Namaz, drank tea and peacefully went to the gallows, 36 years ago. With the Quran as his constant companion, his regular readings of Islam made him a man of God for the inmates of Delhi’s Tihar Jail No 3. The ... More »
Seven years ago, when Kashmiri national Afzal Guru was surreptitiously hanged in the closed environs of the Tihar prison in Delhi, he was calm, cool, collected and God-fearing while the jailer who saw through his hanging -Sunil Gupta, ‘broke down and cried’ wh... More »
Prior to the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Dal Khalsa joined the international community and appealed to the United Nations panel for immediate intervention to halt the wave of human rights violations in Kashmir. In its Open letter to ... More »
Despite being proven a debauch by the judiciary and in spite of overwhelming evidence of his unlawful approach to policing, KPS Gill was a darling of the Indian state and the Indian media. All Indian newspapers, including the Tribune, do not spare a chance to ... More »
Kanwarpal Singh, an active participant in the political life of Punjab, keenly observing and monitoring the acts of the Indian state vis-a-vis the Sikh political dissidents raises pertinent questions relating to the recent order of the government of India bann... More »
The Tribune published Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s views on its editorial page in which he propounded his neo-nationalistic theory about the Kartarpur corridor and his braggadocio against Pakistan army general Bajwa. Dal Khalsa’s Kanwarpal Singh responded with... More »
Panthic consultancy and consensus has been a long-standing tradition for appointment of Jathedars which has been disregarded by the present SGPC leadership by its unilateral appointment of Jathedars, thereby eroding the authority of Sikh institutions writes th... More »
The activist dismisses the possibility of any change in the social or political status of the Dalits in India or reduction in hate crimes against them even with the election of right-wing oriented Shri Ram Nath Kovind as the President of India. WWith a Dalit i... More »
Kanwarpal Singh blasts the untruths and lies in KPS Gill’s book, Punjab -The Enemies Within. Dal Khalsa spokesperson and a participant in the insurgent Sikh struggle in Punjab in the last century blasts the untruths and lies of KPS Gill’s swan song, Punjab -Th... More »