Indo-Pakistani scandal: Why the US is resuscitating Khalistan

A serious scandal is brewing between India and Pakistan. According to Islamabad, New Delhi has blocked access to the accounts of overseas missions and a couple of Pakistani media outlets of Pakistan on Twitter.

India also believes that the blocked accounts spread provocative content about events in the country, including protests by farmers.

But that's not the main thing. New Delhi is wary of Islamabad's information campaign to popularise the separatist movement of Sikhs seeking the creation of an independent Khalistan in India.

This geopolitical project arose after the proclamation of the sovereignty of both countries in 1947, after which interethnic conflicts began to shake Hindustan. Sikhs who lived in the part of Punjab that remained behind Pakistan were also involved in them.

However, the Muslim majority of Punjab expelled most of the Sikhs to India. And subsequently, the Sikh card was played by the CIA in order to split India and create a Sikh state on the territory of its Punjab state — the same Khalistan.

Depending on the geopolitical situation, in the West, this project was sometimes forgotten, then remembered. But they have always been linked to Pakistani-Indian tensions. At the same time, the movement for the creation of Khalistan was funded by the CIA through Islamabad.

That is why the reanimation of this project in the information and political space of the region can be perceived as a sign of the beginning of a new US game aimed at "taming India".

And not only it, if we keep in mind the scenario being promoted by Washington to create a Pashtunistan covering the territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Whether these plans are destined to come true or not, the future will show. So far, it is clear that America has intensified the projection of destabilisation into the region through the separatists.

Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute