Classic-George Osbourne didn’t know who Tony Lit was but was walking right next to him!

Maybe you have a point in regards to issue raised in 21.

My folks have just brought the Punjab Times paper, both Sharma and Rai have pretty good ads in there listing there goals and vision. Lit’s one is comical, it just says;
“Cameron is supporting Lit for the Southall election”.

Who else would Cameron support-doh!
Plus it is in a Punjabi newspaper but the ad has no Punjabi at all. What a numpty.

Chahal was a friend and close associate of no other than Dr Rai who was heavily involved in the original case in Strasbourg from an Sikh Human Rights Group (SHRG) and ISYF perspective. He should go back to defending the Chahal decision and stop wasting his time in politics – people in Southall suggest he will lose his deposit and will be lucky if he picks up a thousand votes.

But then again he wants to show he has changed his colours – he regularly travels to India (incidentally after the ISYF ban) and is one of the two Sikh advisers to the UK Govt. All very strange considering his past activities. Rest assured he will be staying clear of challenging the UK/Indian Govts. (he needs to keep them pleased as they provide him funds/freedoms) in the Chahal case.

UK challenges Strasbourg ban

Clare Dyer and Alan Travis
Thursday July 12, 2007
The Guardian

Britain launched an attempt at the European court of human rights yesterday to overturn an 11-year-old judgment by the court which bans the deportation of suspected terrorists to countries where they face a risk of torture or degrading treatment.

The government has been trying for two years to find a way of challenging the Strasbourg court’s judgment in the 1996 Chahal case, which has frustrated its attempts to expel suspects to such countries as Tunisia and Algeria.

It was given permission to intervene in a case brought against the Netherlands by Mohammed Ramzy, a 22-year-old Algerian terror suspect, but that case has been held up by procedural delays.

However, yesterday the court’s grand chamber of 17 judges heard Britain’s arguments when it intervened in another case, brought against the Italian government by Nassim Saadi, 23, a suspected terrorist and brother of a suicide bomber. He was convicted of criminal conspiracy in Italy and given a 20-year sentence by a Tunisian military court in his absence for belonging to a terrorist organisation abroad and incitement to terrorism.

Italy obtained diplomatic assurances from Tunisia that he would not be tortured and could reopen the criminal case against him, but his lawyer, Sandro Clementi, told the court yesterday that it had strong evidence that torture was “a daily practice” in Tunisia.

Britain hopes to persuade the court to reconsider its judgment in the case of Karamjit Singh Chahal, a Sikh militant who successfully argued that he should not be sent back to India because he would face a real risk of inhumane treatment.

The scaremongering by the anti self determination crew is doing nothing for their cause. Following their logic all the Scottish and Welsh nationalist should be rounded up and shot.

The Sikhs had an independent state until 1849 until the British annexed, why should it not be restored? Why is a Bristish colonial model of India defended by these so called anti colonialists.In fact their wer 500 independent states in the Indian sub continent before Britain arrived.Of course the self haters are not aware of this as in there Stalanist, bigotted world.

And by the way, you are either incredibly naive or disingenuous if you’re expressing surprise at my characterisation of Khalistanis as being riddled with theocrats, extremists, bigots and fanatics. That’s what I mean by a very high tolerance level for extremism — you just don’t see it.

Anyway, I can’t be bothered wasting typing time discussing pipedreams and cheese and onion crisps nationalism.

You say that it is one thing to support human rights in Punjab but quite another to support Khalistan… so how else can a person (i.e. me!) actively support human rights issues in Punjab without the need for self-determination?

Either way, this by election has really dredged them up from the surface, and shown them for what they are. Which is good.

More Khalistani Muslims and Hindus are joining the Tories today.

This is hilarious! Have you take your tablets lately? Last time I checked, the friendly local neighbourhood Khalistanis were wetting their pants with their hatred for Hindus and Muslims, the slobbering and spluttering bigots. I’m so glad those fanatics have run away from the Labour party — straight to the Tories, as if they could give a flying burp for any of that stuff.