Comments on: Rediscovering our Sikh heritage

By: singh (australia)

singh (australia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:38:52 +0000

During Maharaja Ranjit Singh's time no religeous place of worship was destroyed or disrespected. He was very fair king who made sure that his subjects are treated fairly and equally as per Sikh treaching and code of conduct.

We should also NEVER ever forget our greatest hero 'Dulla Bhatti' and his samadh in Lahore.
If I ever visit Pakistan, I will to take my family to the samaadh of this greatest warrior son of Punjab and all the historical & religious places.

I was born 20yrs after Hindustan got freedom, BUT I always feel great 'thand' when I meet people from Pakistan..as if meeting my long lost brothers and sisters.

The bond between India and Pakistan can never be broken.

Long live Hindustan (India & Pakistan) !!

By: punjabi jatt

punjabi jatt — Tue, 29 May 2012 04:49:45 +0000

should'nt a Muslim have semitic heritage instead or Aryan heritage. Afterall the ancient aryans were Hindus,

By: Hina

Hina — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:23:08 +0000

well done Dr Khan, you have made the Pakistani nation proud of you. brilliant work .

By: Indian from lahore

Indian from lahore — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:54:42 +0000

I am an Indian and I agree that the uniting of India and Pakistan is unrealistic. I am one of those who have felt the pain of my grandparents in giving up what could have been our homes – such homes were left behind in all corners of the country when the two nations were formed. I have come to understand the painful reality of our partition as this – If we see each other as separate we will say we lost our homes or our homes were snatched from us, if we see each other as one we can say we exchanged homes.
We are known as refugees in India, Muhajir in Pakistan. Pakistan continues to be the land of the Sindhis, Baluchistanis, Pashtuns and Punjabis, the rest try to fake it to make it. Indian secularists will paint India in saffron in return and forget that the color signifies patriotism when there are Muslims that feel that sentiment in their heart for India just as much as Hindus.
There are previously Bihari, Gujarati and Hyderabadi Muslims that may even now be living in the lanes of Lahore that i know only through stories, their children are going to schools and healing in hospitals that could have been my native. There are Hindus like me who live in Gujarat in a city that was built by a Muslim ruler. for those of us who grew up with the heritage of Lahore and Rawalpindi, the Eastern Punjabi dialects remind us three generations later that our roots are somewhere else. indeed i learned to make a qalam from my grand father who remembers swimming across the chenab to get to school.
let us live in our two countries and heal together, strengthen our nations so we can say good bye to foreign aid that comes at the price of dividing us. we have what we need to feed, clothe and shelter our people. we can create a glorious future for ourselves and our future generations. let us respect and protect each other's identities and cultures and come together in peace and prosperity.

By: pardeep

pardeep — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:18:49 +0000

Sacrifices by the elders for the creation of Pakistan is a fraudulent concept. Can anybody tell of any Muslim follower of Jinnah going to jail for the freedom of the country; was any Muslim League member ever convicted. Actually movement for creation of Pakistan was a collaborative movement engineered by the Britishers to thwart independence movement launched by Congress. The sacrifices for freedom were made by only those Muslims who were members of Congress. And the collaboration was successful in giving power to Muslims only in those areas which were Muslim majority and under any democratic system the Muslim would have been the major rulers. And because Pakistan was not created by any sacrifices in the struggle for freedom, it did not survive also for long in original shape as the majority has already left it and the minorities (ethnic) in the left over are fighting for secession. We should wake ourself up about the historical correctness.

By: shutter*2010

shutter*2010 — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:35:50 +0000

History reading is important before we all call ourselves Sikhs and Hindus. Mr. Khan don't forget that some of us left our sisters in Punjab in 1947. So the Sikhs got related to us one more time. Is it not? Khalsa Khan.

By: Baba Sidni

Baba Sidni — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:04:08 +0000

If you are eager to test the DNA of the history bluff, you would be amazed to find that the heritage of the Punjabis is form Aryans, who came 5000 years ago from central Asia. Another group from the same are, went to the Middle East as well. With the same DNA. Yes they did not change it. So checking for the DNA for differences or similarities would be difficult in this case. Yes checking of DNA, that it is different from the DNA of a rabbit or not, would be easier.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:55:58 +0000

Indians are used to billions of subsects and subdivisions within hindu, christian and islamic religions. They do not normally differentiate between the different sects. We will be Anti-Sikh if they are violent and the same goes with Islam. It is not the religion, only the violence which we abhor

By: Baba Sidni

Baba Sidni — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:53:16 +0000

O yes. But this was not a good test. They only censor, what does not go with their ideology.

By: Baba Sidni

Baba Sidni — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:36:15 +0000

And I guess publishing these comments is also jahaalat.