Prior to moving to the US, Dr. Aulakh served as a Senior Staff Fellow at the Bureau of Biologics as a special expert in the laboratory of Oral Medicine. He was the first scientist to demonstrate the presence of virus-related genes in human tumour tissues and the absence in the normal tissue from the same patient, suggesting the viral etiology of cancer. Dr. Aulakh tested the swine flu vaccine for contamination with a cancer-causing virus prior to its release for public consumption in the US. Dr. Aulakh held further academic and research positions, including as a research scientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston for over two years. He has been credited with over 27 scientific publications in various scientific journals and university-level books related to his research work. Since 1986, Dr. Aulakh has been leading the Sikh Struggle for freedom and independence of Khalistan, which was declared independent in October of 1987. He is known for his integrity and advocacy for the Sikh cause in the US Congress, resulting in hundreds of statements by US legislatures being entered into the permanent Congressional Record regarding the denial of basic civil rights, human rights violations, torture, rape, persecution, murder, and genocide of the Sikh nation.