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100 Pbi boys killed in Canada drug warfare
65 Asian girls in US jails for drug trafficking
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service
65 Asian girls in US jails for drug trafficking
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service
Patiala, January 1
Sixtyfive Asian girls believed to be Punjabi are in the US jails for trafficking drugs and more than 100 Punjabi boys have lost their lives in drug war in the British Columbia (BC) state of Canada.
Though Punjabis still are considered a hard-working community in the West, their younger generation has also earned notoriety as they have ‘attained’ domination in the flourishing drug trade in Canada and even the US in one decade.
They virtually have elbowed out Mexicans, Italians and have over their place in drug peddling in the two countries where the authorities have put Punjabis at the top of their suspicion lists.
This disclosure was made by Canada-based weekly Hamdard’s editor-in -chief Amar Singh Bhullar to The Tribune. Bhullar, whose paper is published simulatenously from Toronto and Vancouver in Canada and California in the USA, is also editor of the Qaumantri Punjabi, a Punjabi magazine, was on a visit to Punjab.
“More than 65 Punjabi girls, a number them born in Canada, are serving terms in jails of the Sarnia area near Niagra Falls in the USA on the US-Canada border. We have confirmed their presence in the Sarnia jails through the US police authorities. The total number of Punjabi girls involved in drug trade in Canada and USA could be on the higher side. Young Punjabi girls fall in the trap of drug-peddlers, most of whom were their boyfriends, for getting rich quick. We are trying to locate other such girls in the USA and Canada. In most cases, boyfriends push their women into the drug trade,” said Bhullar.
Bhullar said what could be even more disturbing was that a few Canada-based Punjabi boys married in Punjab and not in harmony with their wives were pushing their wives into the drug trade. “Such unfortunate girls are usually oblivious of the designs of their crafty husbands who put drugs like cocaine or marijuana in their vehicles and push them inside the US border. If they are caught, the husbands think they have ‘freed themselves’ of the trouble of keeping their wives with them, and if they pass the border successfully - a matter of rare chance due to increased surveillance - they enjoy the big bucks earned by keeping their partners in the dark. In any case, brides are neck deep in trouble and more in emotional quagmire,” said Bhullar. According to Bhullar more than 100 Punjabi boys had lost their lives five to 10 years in the gang war in Canada. “Actually, this is a war of superiority and going on between Punjabis, Mexicans and Italians in BC. Punjabis have chartered their way to the top slot in the drug trade, particularly in Canada. The British Columbia authorities are so fed up with the strengthening web of drug peddlers that they have constituted a special task force to tame them, but they are yet to succeed in the war against drugs. The increasing influence of Punjabis in the drug trade in the two countries has belittled Punjabis in the eyes of the world,” said Bhullar.
