Khalistan Movement: When an Air India plane with 329 passengers was destroyed in the air
Khalistan Movement: When an Air India plane with 329 passengers was destroyed in the air hajracreations.com This article was first published on the BBC Urdu website in March 2022, and is being reproduced for readers today. Almost 52 years ago today, on 12 October 1971, Dr. Jagjit Singh Chauhan published an advertisement in the New York Times in which he declared himself the first president of the so-called Khalistan. Few people paid attention to this declaration at the time, but by the 1980s, the international movement for Khalistan had gained momentum. According to the data of the police of the Indian state of Punjab, 21,469 people lost their lives in the 12-year-long violent incidents related to the Khalistan movement from 1981 to 1993, and the economy of Punjab, the most prosperous state of India, was destroyed. On June 23, 1985, Khalistani separatists planted a time bomb on an Air India flight from Montreal, Canada to Mumbai, causing the plane ...