We Fight Against Khalistanis, Not Against Idea Of Khalistan
By Balbir Punj
Many of us, who saw thousands of Amritpal’s supporters, some of them brandishing swords and guns, stomping through barricades and barging into a police station in Ajnala, near Amritsar on February 23 last, and hapless policemen scurrying for cover, were shocked. The disturbing scenes were reminiscent of dark days of terror that rocked Punjab in 1980s.
The script was too familiar and ominous. Many analysts, discussing the sordid episode threadbare, concluded that the Khalistan doctrine was far from dead, with inherent potential to push the border state back to an internecine war, bleeding it white in the process. Whatsoever happened in the border state on that fateful day appeared to be a page straight from the horror book that shook the country during the decade betwe...









