Premi

All these red arrows are churches surrounding Golden Temple ...many funded by Canada based evangelical groups.
Dass went on google maps and found there were 36 churches around Darbar Sahib.  
Are our sampradays doing anything about this?  Are they even aware of this problem?
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882
 
By Frances Mao, Caroline Davies and Paul Adams in Singapore, Islamabad and London   Pakistan has launched missile strikes into Iran, killing nine people, after Iran carried out strikes in Pakistan late on Tuesday.
Pakistan said its strikes had hit "terrorist hideouts" in Iran's south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Iran condemned the attack, which it said killed three women, two men and four children who were not Iranian.
The country's foreign ministry later said it was committed to good neighbourly relations with Pakistan.
However, it called on Islamabad to prevent the establishment of "bases and armed terrorist groups" on its soil.
The reciprocal attacks come as tensions in the Middle East are high with several overlapping crises.
...
Iran and Pakistan have complicated but cordial relations. Their ministers met at Davos this week and their navies conducted joint exercises in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf.
The two countries have similar concerns about the lawless border area, where drug smugglers and militant Baloch groups are very active.
After both sets of air strikes, each side seemed anxious to emphasise that these did not represent attacks on a brotherly neighbour.
Tehran's reaction to the Pakistani strike appears relatively muted and the authorities have said that the victims, who included women and children, were not Iranian nationals.
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882
 
By Frances Mao, Caroline Davies and Paul Adams in Singapore, Islamabad and London   Pakistan has launched missile strikes into Iran, killing nine people, after Iran carried out strikes in Pakistan late on Tuesday.
Pakistan said its strikes had hit "terrorist hideouts" in Iran's south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Iran condemned the attack, which it said killed three women, two men and four children who were not Iranian.
The country's foreign ministry later said it was committed to good neighbourly relations with Pakistan.
However, it called on Islamabad to prevent the establishment of "bases and armed terrorist groups" on its soil.
The reciprocal attacks come as tensions in the Middle East are high with several overlapping crises.
...
Iran and Pakistan have complicated but cordial relations. Their ministers met at Davos this week and their navies conducted joint exercises in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf.
The two countries have similar concerns about the lawless border area, where drug smugglers and militant Baloch groups are very active.
After both sets of air strikes, each side seemed anxious to emphasise that these did not represent attacks on a brotherly neighbour.
Tehran's reaction to the Pakistani strike appears relatively muted and the authorities have said that the victims, who included women and children, were not Iranian nationals.
 

Turns out the kid in this specific video isn’t Sikh. The school does have a problem with anti-Sikh hatred though as other pupils have reported issues for a while now. 

https://x.com/tw1ttersteven/status/1747058744641433904?s=46
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/my-beautiful-boy-searing-heartbreak-148942

Ok so that’s it. I have said nothing against Sikhs. You can handle your own issues your own way. 
but Pakistan and Pakistanis will be taken down slowly but surely 

I don't know what we are arguing about now? I agree with your analysis of the subcontinents 'weak links'. I don't thinks it is complex or nuanced at all.  
Maybe the simple truth is that we have more chaaploose, sycophantic opportunists, ready to subordinate themselves to outsiders for their and their families prosperity, than those who have a truly sovereign mindset and revolt at the idea of servitude. Juts (whether they like it or not) were specifically identified by the brits as being particularly docile and predispositioned for subordinate positions (as well as being of lower intelligence),  hence their 'favoured' position during colonialism. 
If you look at what has been happening in afghanistan over the last few decades, look at how persistently and ruthlessly the taliban there annihilated perceived collaborators (i.e. blowing people up who were looking to join the coalitions police force and army at the expense of their own fighters). Also how they infiltrated those orgs as well. Probably played a big part in their eventual military success. Our lot had (for example) our own lot being prison guards for their very own freedom fighters - like Bhagat Singh.    

No it isn't. We've been infiltrated by people who have more of a sense of loyalty to their caste and nonSikh culture over the welfare of the panth. But we're working on that. Plus those people you speak of are fully supported and covered up by a corrupt legal system and successive governments. 
PS - I don't want to continue the discussion but you keep bringing up related matters. This is a Sikh forum, so you shouldn't be surprised if some Sikhs give you a response from their perspective. 

What, and how many goray did it take to conquer hindu majority 'india' even if they got seriously mauled in Panjab. 

Some jews probably thought the same prior to ww2......

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107 drug-carrying drones sent by Pakistani smuggling gangs to Punjab
 
January 5, 2024, 12:00am
Last week border officials in the Punjab region of India revealed they intercepted 107 drug-carrying drones sent by smuggling gangs last year over the border from Pakistan, the highest number on record. 
Most were carrying heroin or opium from Pakistan to be dropped and received by collaborators in the Punjab, notorious for having India’s worst levels of opiate addiction. 
Last year the head of a police narcotics unit in Lahore, a city in Pakistan which borders the Punjab, was dismissed after he was suspected of running a drug trafficking gang sending drones over to India.   
But the use of cheap flying robots instead of humans to smuggle drugs across borders is a worldwide phenomenon. 
In September the Jordanian air force shot down two drones carrying crystal meth coming from Syria. It was the ninth such drone in 2023, according to Caroline Rose, a director at the New Lines Institute in Washington DC.
Drug smugglers from Syria, the world’s largest producer of the black market amphetamine pill, captagon, often use Jordan as a transit point to the wider Gulf Arab kingdoms and the global market. Rose thinks Syrian smugglers have increased the use of drones to smuggle captagon and meth due to a security clampdown at the Jordanian border which has made trafficking by land harder. 
Drones sent by Mexican cartels carrying drugs such as cocaine, meth, and heroin regularly cross the U.S. border. 
They are being used to shift drugs by air and sea between Africa and Europe. 
Spanish police seized a massive drone with a wingspan of over four metres capable of carrying up to 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of cargo in a special compartment in its nose, being used by a French smuggling gang to traffic drugs from Morocco to southern Spain. In 2022, police found three underwater drones built to smuggle up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of drugs across the Strait of Gibraltar between Morocco and Spain.   
Drones are being used to smuggle drugs into high security prisons worldwide from Brazil and France to Australia and across the U.S.
In Canada, where 75 percent of prison contraband seizures are attributed to drone drops, there were 700 drone related incidents in two years, including one where an inmate fatally overdosed on fentanyl that had been delivered into his prison by drone.
In October last year the U.K. government was forced to introduce no fly zones around all its prisons due to a “sharp increase” in the number of drones carrying drugs and mobile phones into jails.  
Drug gangs are also using drones as eyes in the sky. 
In Latin America and the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia, drug trafficking cartels use them to scout out drug smuggling routes. In the U.K. they have been used by drug stash thieves to seek out rival weed farms and by guerilla weed growers to find suitable spots to set up illegal farms. 
They are used by law enforcement too, from heat seeking drones spotting indoor cannabis farms in the U.K., to drones being used by police to catch street drug dealers in Kyrgyzstan in central Asia.
But drones will likely become an everyday part of drug dealing too, according to Peter Warren Singer, author of multiple books on national security and a Fellow at think tank New America, with legit medicines due to be delivered by drone in the U.S. later this year and maybe in the U.K. too.  
“We are just scraping the surface of what is possible, as drone deliveries become more and more common in the commercial world, it will be the same with delivery of illicit goods. In our book, Burn-In, we explain how a future city will see drones zipping about delivering everything from groceries and burritos to drugs, both prescribed by a doctor or bought off a dealer.
“Drones have traditionally been used by governments and corporations for what are known as the "3 D's" jobs that are too dull, dirty, or dangerous for humans. For criminals, it is the same, except add in another 😧 Dependable. A drone doesn't steal the product and can't be arrested or snitch if caught.” 
Liam O’Shea, senior research fellow for organised crime and policing at defence and security thinktank RUSI, said drones were at the moment of limited value to wholesale traffickers and organised criminal gangs because of their range and the weight they can carry. 
“It makes sense that smugglers would seek to use drones. They are cheap and easy to acquire. They also lower the risks involved in some transactions, as smugglers do not have to be physically present during transactions. They offer opportunities for smuggling in areas where previous routes were too risky, such as prisons and over securitised borders.
“I expect them to be of greater value to smaller players and distributors dealing with smaller quantities. Wholesale drug traffickers will still need to use routes that facilitate smuggling at higher volume or using drones to make multiple trips, which entails risks of detection. 
“That may well change as improvements in technology improve drones’ carrying capacity and crime groups are better able to access drones with greater capacity.”
 
Source

Waheguru Ji
What is the sangats opinion on this? Any more stories like this?
 

from same source
 
IMMIGRATION JUDGE RASIB GHAFFAR ‘WAS PART OF A GANG WHO SWINDLED £2M IN LEGAL AID PAYMENTS’
10JAN2024   A judge teamed up with a gang of crooked lawyers to fleece the taxpayer out of nearly £2m in false legal aid claims, a court heard. Rasib Ghaffar, 54, was part of a group of legal professionals who dishonestly claimed £1,856,584 in costs relating to a trial in 2011, it was said. He allegedly raked in more than £140,000 when he did not even act as an advocate in the case at Bournemouth Crown Court, which involved Indian restaurants employing…

Court Hears London Imam Shouted ‘Sister F*cker, Child of a Pimp’ as he Ran Over and Killed Man Lying in Road
24 Getty Images / Facebook / Collage OLIVER JJ LANE 10 Jan 2024112 2:08 Imam Qari Abassi claims he believed Harvinder Singh was a discarded briefcase or dustbin lying in the road when he ran over his head as he drove to mosque in London, a court has heard.
A man was killed and two men who were trying to protect him believed they had to jump out of the road “to save their lives” as a speeding motorist tried to drive to a London mosque to early lead morning prayers on the 4th of May 2021.
Court News reports the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, was shown dashcam footage of the moment Imam Qari Abassi ran over Harvinder Singh, who was lying unconscious in the middle of the street. Per the report, the court heard audio of Abassi shouting “Sister fucker, child of a pimp, your mother’s pussy of you sister fucker Gandoo, sister fucker” as the car drove over Singh. In Urdu, gandoo or gandu is a derogatory term for a man who receives anal sex.
Two men had been trying to protect Singh and were directing traffic around him while they waited for the arrival of the emergency services. The Old Bailey heard allegations that Abassi, however, drove straight at them instead. He told the court he believed they were drunks or otherwise unfriendly. The men had told the court they had to jump aside “to save their lives” from the oncoming car.
Singh was struck in the head and chest by the car as he lay in the road and died from his injuries.
Abassi said his verbal outburst was at the two men who had jumped clear, not at the man lying in the road, who he believed was a “bin or briefcase or something”. He told the court through an Urdu interpreter that: “I was going on my way and these people are making gestures with their hands and I didn’t know. I was a bit angry about why they are doing this to me. I am just going on my way… When people ask you to stop and you don’t know those people, you don’t stop for that reason.”
Per Court News, Abassi accepted he had been driving over the speed limit but did not ultimately accept that he had done anything wrong, and denies causing death by careless driving.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/10/court-hears-london-imam-shouted-sister-fcker-child-of-a-pimp-as-he-ran-over-and-killed-prone-man/

Looks like letting sulleh pray in our holy places has paid off:
 

Only person that doesn't help is an alcoholic going to die of DTs. 
I understand the sentiment though brother. 

We have $2 and $1 coins. I carry about four $2s and couple of $1s at least. I never go around using bank card for transactions less than $20. Tea or coffee is about $2 to start. So, I'd feel guilty giving less. If a homeless is stood outside coffee shop or fast food place, I sometimes ask what they'd like and buy them food and drink if I have time. In some areas downtown, many people traveling to work will buy extra coffee or tea for the needy after asking their request. Seeing this is what gave me the idea of buying them food or drink instead of money.

I highly advise anyone suffering with aches/pains in muscles and joints to try stretching regularly, I have been doing it semi-regularly for a few months. e.g. neck, thigh, and it has relieved some issues noticeably

Looks like this member https://www.sikhawareness.com/profile/2591-pal-07
with a new account, decided to return and share wisdom with us (for 5 minutes). Well, good while he is/was here

I think critique of Vedas and Devte would be more as that was culturally relevant whereas Christianity was not really present at that time in Indian culture

Well, we at least got @PAL_07 (briefly) in return!

Well, we at least got @PAL_07 (briefly) in return!

I think you misunderstood my question. Why is there hindu gods and christian figures in gudwaras? To my knowledge, this isnt allowed right..? Or am I wrong?