NEW YORK: Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, expressing solidarity with Pakistan, warned that the Sikh community in India would not allow the Indian Army to pass through Punjab to strike Pakistan.
“We will not allow the Indian Army to pass through Punjab to attack Pakistan,” the leader of the Khalistan Movement said. He said that India does not have the courage to attack Pakistan.
Pannun stressed that they stand firmly with the people of Pakistan. “We, twenty million Sikhs, stand with Pakistan like a brick wall,” he asserted.
He further said that the oppression of minorities in India, especially Sikhs, is evident to all. “This is neither 1965 nor 1971; this is 2025,” Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said.
He said that the very name “Pakistan” signifies purity. “It is our tradition that we have never initiated an attack, nor will we ever do so,” he said.
Pannun warned, “Whoever attacks does not survive — be it Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi, or Amit Shah.” He vowed to bring Modi, Ajit Doval, Amit Shah, and Jaishankar to justice under international law.
He also added that in the Pahalgam incident, India killed its own Hindus to achieve political goals. “The attack was aimed at political gains and securing votes,” he added.
On April 22, gunmen opened fire on visitors in the Pahalgam area of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), killing at least 26 people and injuring 17 others.
Within minutes of the incident, Indian media outlets blamed Pakistan without providing any credible evidence.
Pakistan strongly denied any involvement, accusing India of orchestrating terror attacks to malign Pakistan’s image and sponsoring terrorism on Pakistani soil.
The fallout from the Pahalgam incident has led to a raft of retaliatory measures between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
India unilaterally suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), while Pakistan responded by threatening to put the Simla Agreement in abeyance and closing its airspace for Indian flights.
On Saturday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan was open to any “neutral and transparent” investigation into the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
