First Sikh officer in Pakistan Army

[rvikz]

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i wish one day pakistan can be led by wise sikh man if law is changed since punjab is thiers too.

[vineshvk]

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@Reza Pahlavi

Are you sure about the kind of figures you guys fling around?

The Sikhs say your army killed at least 200,000 (if not more) of their brethern in the 1980’s, then I will run with that for now.

Still we have more sikhs in the army than sikh population in Pakistan. Does that prove something.

[LastOfTheDinosaurs]

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@Blitzkrieg

Not really as they migrated to Afghanistan in British Raj hence they may have assimilated a little in those ages but i don’t there is such thing as a pathan sikh (maybe pathan jews, pathans lost tribe of jews, but that’s another issue! ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun

[LastOfTheDinosaurs]

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They definitely migrated but are now part of Pashtun society and should be considered Pashtuns.

[LastOfTheDinosaurs]

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So the two Punjabs coming closer haan, good affection for the bearded brothers...

[Blitzkrieg]

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@LastOfTheDinosaurs

So the two Punjabs coming closer haan, good affection for the bearded brothers…

You should marry a Sikh as well!

WHat’s the difference between bearded fellows right?

[LastOfTheDinosaurs]

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please read "bearded brothers"....brothers in blood, language, and culture...the only difference is religion but again Sikhism is half Islam...beard is scared to both religions...so there are reasons for the fraternal feelings....i insist this is brotherly affection shown to the Sikh enlistee...don't you agree?

[Prince_of_Persia]

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Sikh people no good changey. Let Pakistan be a safe haven for minorities and give them the freedom to practice their religion at home and in their temples but you can't trust everyone in positions of authority.

I know if I was a Sikh or Sikh I would love my land regardless but I wouldn't be loyal to the state which is suppose to be the "Islamic Republic..." or the "Citadel of Islam" or was created just because the creators couldn't live with my people and my coreligionists. I'd be more happier if it was unification and my own coreligionists had the upper hand in the goverment.

[jason_chiu888]

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@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

Oops.. it was a Typo. Gandhi it is. I had also originally mentioned the wrong Gandhi… I meant Indira Gandhi, not Sonia.

Sonia’s done nothing wrong. I like her.

LOl… I still think the typo was better.

[nikhil25]

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@jason_chiu888

LOl… I still think the typo was better.

since when did chinese speak hindi/urdu?

[Blitzkrieg]

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Now there are talks of raising a sikh battalion?

How many people are there in a battalion? A thousand???

[Kattabomma]

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Gimme a break ...what a show! no institution in Pakistan can survive if they really pratice minority rights. One in the court, one in the cricket team and now one in the military...nice show. What are they trying pull? a lot of wool

[gesto]

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Only a very few Punjabi's migrated during Soviet invasion and those migrated mainly went to NWFP and later many of them fled PAkistan after they found NWFP was no longer safe for them.

[gesto]

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In the tribal areas(TEERA)one can see tribal Hindu and SIKHS.

[BalleBalle]

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@LastOfTheDinosaurs

please read “bearded brothers”…brothers in blood, language, and culture…the only difference is religion but again Sikhism is half Islam…beard is scared to both religions…so there are reasons for the fraternal feelings…i insist this is brotherly affection shown to the Sikh enlistee…don’t you agree?

Go read up on your history - sikhism was created to counter the muslim invaders, it has no brotherly feelings for islam.Or were you talking about terrorists ??

[mAd_ScIeNtIsT]

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@BalleBalle

Go read up on your history - sikhism was created to counter the muslim invaders, it has no brotherly feelings for islam.Or were you talking about terrorists ??

What do you mean “created to counter the muslims”? Many of the first sikhs were Muslims themselves. The religion is a synthesis of Islamic, Hindu andother philosophies.

[Silly_Billy]

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First Sikh cadet undergoing training at PMA; meets PM](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\04\16\story_16-4-2006_pg11_3)

[tmx305]

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Awesome news, wishing the cadet all the best in future to serve his country. Pakistan zindabad.

[mulz]

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I hope this sikh officer does does justice to his position and not start riots as his brethen- sikhs did in 1946. Had it not been for Sikhs, India would have remained united with Punjabi its national language.

[system]

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@LastOfTheDinosaurs

You’ve stated the truth at least for Western Pakistan (Baluchistan+Pakhtunkhwa+Northern Areas). But as for Afghanistan, that will never happen. Watching Indian movies is something volutary not accompanied with political, military domination.

Dear Pakpatriot, there is sizeable Sindhi-speaking Hindu population in Sindh, why not enlist them also? Don’t you think Punjabi fraternal feelings and affinity in enlisting the Sikhs is in play here?

So watching Bollywood in Pakistan means you have to accpet poliitical domination and mulitary rule of INDIA! In Pakistan.
In Pakistan, Indian culture is pretty much banned. We may have a good deal of commonality in culture, good or bad, we dont advertise it. Pakistanis have tried to distinguish themselves from India for half a century. We dont even recognise our Hindu heritage, considering how well Muslim monuments are kept as apposed to Hindu ones.

No Bollywood movies play in our cinemas, we hardly even have any trade with them. This as opposed to Afghanistan which relies on Indians for every aspect of their existance…
So who infact is the one influenced by India?
I have no farternal feeling for PUNJABIS… There is a sense of camaraderie due to similarity in language, but this is far different from wanting to join their country… Punjabis have no notion of a Punjabi state equvilant to the Pathan notion.
The Sikh in question, and then most other Sikhs for that matter in Pakistan as far as I kno, live in the triabl areas of NWFP and Peshawar, and have been assimilated into that society. So what Punjabi farternity are you speaking of?
You people seem to jump at the chance to claim these half Pathan Sikhs when ever it suits you, but if one were to choose to join what you percieve as a Punjabi insitituation, its suddenly Punjabi commaraderie.