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India-Pakistan

NIA arrests key Khalistani operative from Bihar in 2022 terror conspiracy case

2025-05-12

[TimesOfIndia] In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a key Khalistani operative in connection with the 2022 Khalistani terror conspiracy case.

The Khalistani operative, Kashmir Singh Galwaddi from Punjab
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's Ludhiana, is associated with foreign-based Babbar Khalsa terrorist Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, news agency PTI quoted NIA officials as saying.

Galwaddi was arrested from Motihari, Bihar, in coordination with the local police. As per NIA, he is a "hardened criminal" and is among six people who had beat feet from a jail in Punjab's Nabha in 2016.

The anti-terror agency further said that since breaking out of the Nabha jail, Kashmir Singh had been "actively associated" with designated Khalistani terrorists, including Rinda. The former was a proclaimed offender in the NIA case for his role relating to involvement in conspiracy, providing shelter, logistics support and terror funds to aides of the Khalistani terrorists.

These aides had escaped to Nepal after carrying out various terror activities in India, including the rocket-propelled grenade attack at the Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters in Mohali in May 2022.

An NIA Special Court in Delhi had declared Kashmir Singh a proclaimed offender in the 2022 terror conspiracy case and issued non-bailable arrest warrants against him over the past two years.

A cash reward of Rs 10 lakh was also announced by the NIA for information leading to his arrest.

2022 KHALISTAN TERROR CONSPIRACY CASE
In August 2022, the NIA had registered the terror conspiracy case suo moto to probe the terrorist activities of the heads and members of proscribed terrorist organizations such as Babbar Khalsa, Khalistan Liberation Force and International Sikh Youth Federation, among others.

The investigations had exposed a terror-criminal nexus, suggesting that these groups, along with organised criminal gangs, were engaged in smuggling terrorist hardware such as arms, ammunition explosive, IEDs etc. from across the border for terror activities in various parts of the country.

In July 2023, the anti-terror agency chargesheeted nine accused, including Sandhu and another Khalistani terrorist, Lakhbir Singh alias Landa, in the terror case followed by two supplementary chargesheets against six others.

In August 2024, the NIA successfully secured the extradition of Landa's brother Tarsem Singh from the UAE and filed a third supplementary chargesheet in December.

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Trump’s mass deportation raids result in 655% spike in arrests of terrorists

2025-04-23

[NYPOST] The Trump administration's mass deportation raids have nabbed more than 200 known or suspected terrorists since January — including one of India's ''most wanted,'' who is accused of masterminding a grenade attack on a cop there and has ties to a US-designated terrorist organization in Pakistan.

Since President Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have arrested 219 known or alleged terrorists, marking a 655% increase from the same period last year when 29 such arrests were made under former President Joe Biden, according to new Homeland Security data obtained by The Post.

Among the dozens of terrorists swept up in Trump's raids was Harpreet Singh, a citizen of India who entered the US illegally on Jan. 27, 2022 by crossing from Mexico into Arizona and was swiftly released into the country by Border Patrol agents with a future court date, a DHS official said.

The Biden administration is to blame for allowing Singh to roam the country for more than three years, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post.

''The Biden administration not only let a wanted terrorist into our country, but after he was arrested by Border Patrol agents, they released him into the interior of our country,'' she charged.

Who is Harpreet Singh? ICE nabs suspected ‘most wanted’ Indian terrorist

[HindustanTimes] Indian terrorist Harpreet Singh, arrested in the U.S., was involved in terror-related crimes and linked to Babbar Khalsa International.

WHO IS HARPREET SINGH?
Harpreet is an Indian national accused of a key terror-related crime at home, where he allegedly funded and recruited for terror activities, and organised a grenade attack on a cop shoppe and on the residence of a retired officer in Punjab
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2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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. These attacks were intended to spread fear among members of the police force, Indian authorities said.

He is reportedly in connection with Harwinder Singh Rinda, an implicated operative of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)

...one of the Khalistan independence groups, fighting for the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI as yet another arrow in their quiver aimed at the Indian throat....

which the States listed as a foreign terrorist group in 2002. BKI, formed in the late 1970s and linked to a number of political liquidations, bombings and vicious attacks.

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India-Pakistan

Canada-Based Gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa Declared Terrorist By MHA

2024-01-06

December 30, 2023

[OneIndia] The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday declared Lakhbir Singh Landa, a Canada-based gangster and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)

leader, as an "individual terrorist" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Landa, overseeing the trafficking of arms and improvised bombs (IEDs) from Pakistain to India, orchestrated the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack on Punjab
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2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Police's intelligence headquarters in Mohali on May 9 last year. Both the Punjab Police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have sought him in connection with this assault.

According to the MHA's notification, Landa had close ties with Canada-based pro-Khalistan elements (PKEs), including the late Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, among others.

Originally from Harike in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, Landa currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The notification detailed Landa's involvement in various criminal activities, encompassing the supply of explosives, arms, and sophisticated weaponry across borders to different modules for executing terrorist acts in Punjab. His criminal record includes terror module establishment, extortion, killings, IED placements, weapon smuggling, narcotics trade, and channeling funds for terrorist activities in Punjab and other parts of India.

Additionally, the notification stated his implication in targeted liquidations, extortions, and other anti-national endeavors throughout the country.

In 2021, a lookout circular was issued against Landa, and the NIA has offered a reward for information leading to his arrest.

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India-Pakistan

NIA Raids 50 Locations In Khalistani Nexus Probe

2023-09-29

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency is conducting a large-scale operation involving searches at 50 sites in six diverse areas related to the Khalistan-Gangster connection. Reportedly, the agency's agenda includes capturing hawala operatives and logistics supervisors linked to gangsters affiliated with Khalistan.

The raids are currently taking place in several states, including 30 locations in Punjab, 13 in Rajasthan, 4 in Haryana, 2 in Uttarakhand, and 1 in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh each.

Earlier, the agency disclosed a list of 19 absconding Khalistani murderous Moslems located in the UK, US, Canada, Dubai, Pakistain, and other nations, whose properties would be seized, as per sources.

The NIA seized the assets of identified terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is part of the prohibited pro-Khalistani organization Sikhs for Justice (SFJ). Reports suggest that these 19 absconders will face legal consequences under the UAPA anti-terrorist legislation, as they are charged with spearheading anti-India activities from overseas.

The NIA declared a reward of Rs 10 lakh each for information related to alleged murderous Moslems Harwinder Singh Sandhu, also known as Rinda, and Lakhbir Singh Sandhu, known as Landa. They are purportedly connected to the prohibited group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), which is charged with fostering terror activities in India.

The NIA has increased its efforts against pro-Khalistan terrorists, and have offered a monetary reward of Rs 5 lakh for information on three accomplices from BKI. These individuals are Parminder Singh Kaira from Ferozpur, Satnam Singh, and Yadvinder Singh from Tarn Taran in Punjab.

The NIA has stated that there are four individuals sought in relation to a case filed earlier this year. This case involves the BKI's actions of terrorism, which intended to disrupt India's peaceful society and incite fear in Punjab.

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Great White North

Hardeep Singh Nijjar Was A Killer, Not A Religious Head, Say Sources In Indian Intel

2023-09-24

[OneIndia] Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing led to a row between India and Canada, was not a religious and social figure but a terrorist who was involved in running terrorist training camps and funding terror acts, sources have said.

Nijjar was a close associate of Gurdeep Singh alias Deepa Heranwala, who was involved in the killing of around 200 people in Punjab
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during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Heranwala belonged to the banned Khalistan Commando Force. Nijjar, who was killed by person or persons unknown on June 18 at a parking lot of a Sikh gurdwara in British Columbia, had escaped to Canada in 1996 fearing arrest by police here, and indulged in illegal activities like drug smuggling and extortion in Canada to arrange funding for terrorist activities, sources said.

Nijjar was also involved in training youths at a terror camp in British Columbia to carry out attacks in India, they said. Over the years, Nijjar assumed the role of 'Operation Chief' of Khalistan Tiger Force, or KTF, a banned terror group. In 2020, he was accused by the government of being actively involved in "operationalizing, networking, training and financing" KTF members.

In 2012, Nijjar visited Pakistain and came in touch with Jagtar Singh Tara, chief of Babbar Khalsa International, another banned terror group. Tara supplied him with arms and trained him in assembling IEDs in 2012 and 2013. He sent US-based Harjot Singh Birring to Canada to train Nijjar in operating a hand-held GPS device. Nijjar also sent 1 million Pak rupees to Tara, sources said. In 2014, Nijjar planned a terror attack on Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa in Haryana in the direction of Tara. However,
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the attack could not take place because Nijjar was denied an Indian visa, they said.

Nijjar allegedly muscled his way into the post of president of the local gurdwara in Surrey, Canada in 2021, forcibly deposing his cousin, Raghbir Singh Nijjar, the incumbent, with threats of violence. The National Investigation Agency has registered several cases against Nijjar as well as issuing an Interpol Red Corner Notice for raising a module in Canada involving Khalistani separatist Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal. Nijjar was also the head of the Canada chapter of Sikhs For Justice, another banned terrorist organization. He had also organized ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful anti-India protests in Canada and threatened Indian diplomats, sources said.

Nijjar had also given a call to ban Indian Embassy officials from participating in various programs organized by local gurdwaras in Canada. India and Canada are embroiled in a diplomatic row over the killing of Khalistani Nijjar in June. The row erupted following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
's allegations of a "potential" involvement of Indian agents in his killing. India on Tuesday rejected the allegations as "absurd" and "motivated" and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case.

In reflection of the hardening of its position, India on Wednesday advised all its nationals living in Canada and those contemplating traveling there to exercise "utmost caution" given growing anti-India activities and "politically-condoned" hate crimes as well as "criminal violence" in that country. India on Thursday announced temporarily suspending the issuance of visas to Canadian citizens given the "security threats" faced by its high commission and consulates in Canada.

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Great White North

9 Separatist Outfits Supporting Terror Groups Have Bases In Canada, Say Officials

2023-09-20

[OneIndia] At least nine separatist organizations supporting terror groups have bases in Canada and despite multiple deportation requests, Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes, including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials in New Delhi said on Tuesday.

They said that pro-Khalistani outfits such as the World Sikh Organization (WSO), Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) working at the behest of Pakistain have been allegedly operating freely from the Canadian soil.

They said allegations levelled against India by the Canadian authorities and politicians in relation to the murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani terrorist, are incorrect and based on unsubstantiated assumptions.

The issue of deportations of wanted turbans and gangsters have been raised by Indian authorities at multiple diplomatic and security talks but the Canadian authorities remained non-committal and brazen in support of these terror elements, the officials said.

Multiple dossiers have been handed over to the Canadian side but India's deportation requests have gone unaddressed, they said, adding at least nine separatist organizations supporting terror groups have found their bases in Canada.

Eight individuals involved in terror activities and as many gangsters, who have been conspiring with Pakistain's ISI, have found a safe haven in Canada, the officials said.

They said that deportation requests for these people -- including Gurwant Singh who was involved in terrorist activities in early 1990s -- have been pending with the Canadian authorities for years now. An Interpol Red Corner Notice is also pending against him.

The officials said Indian authorities had requested the deportation of Gurpreet Singh, who is also involved in terror cases, and provided his Canadian address but no action was taken.

They said the request for deportation of dreaded gangsters including Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dalla, wanted in 16 criminal cases, Satinderjit Singh Brar alias Goldy Brar, who took responsibility for killing of famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, had been submitted with evidence against them but no action was taken by the Canadian government.

The separatist organization were openly issuing liquidation threats, fuelling separatists' agenda and carrying out assassinations in India, they said.

They pointed out that high profile liquidation of popular singer Sidhu Moosewala by the Canada-based gangster with affiliations to pro-Khalistan elements "is a classic example of this".

Other Canada-based wanted turbans are Gurwant Singh Bath of the Dashmesh regiment of Khalistan, Bhagat Singh Brar (who is son of Pakistain-based terrorist Lakhbeer Singh Rhode), Moninder Singh Bual, Satinder Pal Singh Gill, they said.

Nijjar, who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh, was born in Punjab
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on November 10, 1977 and was affiliated with the now banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF). He was arrested in the mid 1990s. He managed to get bail and fled India on February 19, 1997 by assuming a fake identity of Ravi Sharma and securing a travel document in that name.

In 2013-14, Nijjar visited Pakistain where he met Jagtar Singh Tara of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), wanted in liquidation of Punjab former chief minister Beant Singh. He was during that period roped in by the ISI, which helped him in organising secret training camps for Sikh murderous Moslem groups associated with the Khalistan movement in Missigen Hills, British Columbia.

Nijjar, who was designated as a terrorist by the Union Home Ministry, was also accused of working closely with Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) led by Jagtar Singh Tara. He has been associated with Dal Khalsa leader Gajender Singh, a key accused in hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in 1981.

His name figured in the most wanted list handed over by then Punjab chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh to the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
in 2018.

Nijjar along with criminals like Arsh Dalla were generating huge amounts of funds for anti-India activities by various means which included drug money and finances from Gurdwaras, the officials said.

They said Canada's current diplomatic standoff with India appears to be motivated by failures on the domestic political front and declining popularity of the present government and expulsion of an Indian diplomat seems to be aimed at getting support of the Sikh population especially those harbouring pro-Khalistan sentiments.

The officials also pointed out that support for murderous Moslem elements and gangsters in Canada are deeply linked with the political realities that influence the vote bank in various Sikh dominated constituencies.

They pointed to the role of Jagmeet Singh Dhaliwal, an MP from Burnaby South, who belongs to the New Democratic Party

...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
of Canada which has been a vocal supporter of the Khalistan referendum that seeks a Balkanisation of India and fuels separatist sentiments amongst Canadian Sikhs.

Dhaliwal was earlier placed on black list for his anti-India activities.

The officials said that the Canadian authorities have failed to bring out any direct association of Indian authorities with Nijjar's murder and pointed out at the another murder of another Canadian citizen Ripudaman Malik, who faced wrath of Nijjar and Sikh for Justice for printing of Shri Guru Granth Sahib by Satnam Religious Prachaar Society (SRPS). Few days later, he was killed by unidentified button men.

The officials said that Nijjar's killing was a handiwork of internal rivalry between various groups.

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Terror Networks

NIA Exposes International Nodes of Khalistani Terror Groups, Its Complex Fund Raising Mechanism

2023-07-24

[OneIndia] The NIA has filed a chargesheet against three "individual terrorists" associated with banned Khalistani outfits BKI and KTF, exposing their international nodes involved in the recruitment and handling of India-based terror operatives, an official said on Sunday.

Six other associates working for the Babbar Khalsa International and Khalistan Tiger Force were also named in the chargesheet filed before a special court on Sunday, also highlighting a complex mechanism of fund raising for the two outfits, a spokesperson of the agency said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it is also investigating the links of 16 other absconding and arrested accused associated with the BKI and KTF. The spokesperson said the three notorious gangsters-turned-~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems and drug-smugglers -- Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias 'Rinda', Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias 'Landa' of BKI and Arshdeep Singh alias 'Arsh Dala' of KTF -- are based outside the country and have created their own networks of operatives there to carry out terror activities in India.

"Through this complex network of operatives based abroad, they have been recruiting, motivating and handling their associates in India to carry out terrorist activities, extortion and cross-border smuggling of weapons and drugs into India.

"They also have linkages with major gangs operating in north India, including local gangsters, organized criminal syndicates and networks," the spokesperson said. According to the NIA, Rinda is a very important BKI member and Khalistani operative.

"In the year 2018-19, he fled to Pakistain illegally and is currently living there under the patronage of ISI, and is involved in the commission of terrorist activities against India. "Rinda is involved in various offences like smuggling of arms, ammunition explosives and drugs into Indian territory from Pakistain, recruitment of BKI operatives, murders, raising funds for BKI through extortion in the states of Punjab
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and Maharashtra," the spokesperson said.

The official said Rinda has been involved in many terrorist activities, including the RPG attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters in May 2022, and was declared an "individual terrorist" along with Dala and Landa by the centre, the agency said.

Moga resident Dala is an infamous gangster who left for Canada sometime back and came in contact with Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was the chief of proscribed terrorist organization KTF, according to the spokesperson.

The duo engaged in the recruitment of youth and formation of terrorist gangs for carrying out extortion for raising funds for KTF and for carrying out assassination of businessmen and leaders of particular communities in Punjab, the spokesperson said.

The official said Landa of Tarn Taran was initially involved in criminal and gangster activities and left for Canada in 2017 where he came in contact with Rinda. Landa started working for the BKI and emerged as the main accused in a number of terrorist incidents, including the RPG attack on Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters and RPG attack on Sarhali Police station in Tarn Taran in December, 2022.

He was also the criminal mastermind of the conspiracy to kill Punjab Police Sub Inspector Dilbagh Singh in August last year, the spokesperson said.

The agency said other foreign-based chargesheeted operatives of BKI include Harjot Singh who is currently in the USA, Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Singh Galwaddi, who is absconding in the Nabha Jailbreak case and suspected to be presently in Nepal, and Landa's brother Tarsem Singh, currently in Dubai.

Gurjant Singh, who is hiding in Australia, is amongst the foreign-based nodes of KTF who has been chargesheeted, the spokesperson said, adding other accused chargesheeted are Deepak Ranga and Lucky Khokhar alias 'Denis', who were recruited by foreign-based handlers for carrying out terror activities in India.

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India-Pakistan

Terrorist Harwinder Rinda dies in Pakistan, say sources; gangster group claims responsibility

2022-11-21

[GULISTANNEWSTV] Khalistan

... romantic idea that somehow the Sikhs will create a homeland in the Indian Punjab through anti-Indian terror and lawfare, funded by the Sikh diaspora and trained and guided as a project of Pakistan’s ISI...

i terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda, whose involvement was detected in RPG attack on the Punjab
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Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali, has died in Pakistain, sources said. Gangster group Davinder Bhambiha has claimed the responsibility for his killing. Khalistani terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda, whose name cropped up in various terror cases, is learnt to have died in Pakistain, Punjab Police sources said. Gangster group Davinder Bhambiha claimed on social media that Harwinder Singh Rinda was shot by them in Pakistain.

Harwinder Singh Rinda was the criminal mastermind in the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in May and also in the Ludhiana court blast. His name had also popped up in the famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder case. He was involved in various terror cases and was a member of the banned Khalistani outfit Babbar Khalsa International. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
sources in the state police claimed that Harwinder Singh Rinda was admitted to a hospital in Lahore for 15 days due to kidney failure and he died there. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for Rinda.

WHO WAS HARWINDER SINGH RINDA?
Harwinder Singh Rinda was described as a threat to national security as he was the main link between gangsters and Pak-based terror groups. He was also involved in large-scale cross-border smuggling of drugs and weapons and was also charge-sheeted in a case related to the seizure of arms and explosives from a vehicle in Haryana in May.

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Great White North

Man acquitted in 1985 Air India plane bombing shot dead in Canada

2022-07-16

Khalistani nonsense or related Sikh gangster stuff?

[GreaterKashmir] Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted on charges of bombing an Air India plane killing 329 people on board, has been rubbed out in British Columbia, according to media reports.

Malik was killed as he sat inside his car in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey on Thursday, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Malik and a Babbar Khalsa

...more fully Babbar Khalsa International, one of the Khalistan independence groups who hope to somehow create a Sikh homeland in the Indian Punjab through anti-Indian terror and lawfare, funded by the Sikh diaspora and trained and guided as a project of Pakistan’s ISI...

associate, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted by a British Columbia Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
judge of murder and conspiracy charges in the terrorist kaboom that brought down Air India's Kanishka, a Boeing 747 aircraft, over the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland in 1985.

Bombs had been planted in the luggage on that plane.

The explosives in the second plane went off at Tokyo airport killing two baggage handlers rather than mid flight.

The terrorist attack on Air India, the worst in aviation history but for the 9/11 attacks, is a shameful taint on Canada's record because it could not bring the perpetrators fully to justice.

Only one person, the bomb-maker Inderjit Singh Reyat was convicted in connection with the attack after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2003 but got off lightly.

He was sentenced to nine years in prison and was released in 2016.

Reyat was also convicted of perjury for lying when he testified in the trial of Malik and Bagri.

The Sun site quoted Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Sergeant Timothy Pierotti as saying, "We are aware of Mr. Malik's background, though at this time we are still working to determine the motive".

He said that the police were confident that there were witnesses who could help with the investigation.

Retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, who had overseen the investigation into the terrorist attack, indicated to the Sun that Malik had many enemies.

"I'm not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was (investigating) that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people," the former official of Canada's federal police told the Sun.

CTV News reported that a vehicle was found engulfed in flames near the site of the shooting and that it was believed to be associated with Malik's killing.

The Canada Broadcasting Corporation reported that a witness said he heard three shots and pulled Malik from his red Tesla bleeding from a neck wound.

Malik "was acquitted because there were some mistakes during the investigation, the agencies made some mistakes and the courts couldn't find him guilty," Rob Alexander, whose father, Mathew Alexander, died in the terrorist attack told CTV News.

Alexander, who is a member of the Air India Victims' Family Association, added, "Do we get closure from what happened today? Not really. In the end, your loved one's not coming back".

The Sun said that after his acquittal Malik ran a banking outfit, Khalsa Credit Union, and the Satnam Education Society which runs several "Khalsa schools".

He also ran a clothing company, Papillon Eastern Imports, in whose parking lot he was killed.

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India-Pakistan

3 Ahmadis arrested in Faisalabad for sacrificing animals on Eid

2022-07-11

Pakistan is truly a special place.

[Dawn] A first information report (FIR) was registered in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
on Sunday against members of the Ahmadi community for "hurting Moslem sentiments" by sacrificing animals on Eidul Azha.

Three members of the community have been arrested over the matter, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistain spokesperson Saleemuddin told Dawn.com.

The FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, states that the complainants were present in a mosque after Eidul Azha prayers when they came to know through "verified sources" that residents of the Ahmadi community were sacrificing animals inside their homes.

The complainants then reached the area and "climbed the roofs of nearby houses, after which they saw that the [Ahmadi community members] were sacrificing a goat at one place while other members were cutting the meat of another animal at a different place", it added.

"The Islamic sentiments of the complainants and other Moslems were hurt by this and [the complainants] recorded a video which can be presented as evidence.

"By performing a ritual in line with Islamic beliefs and presenting themselves as Moslems despite being Ahmadis, they have committed a cognisable offence, according to Moslem ummah’s belief, and this has grievously hurt Moslem sentiments," the complainants stated.

The FIR was registered at Faisalabad’s cop shoppe Thikriwala against five people under Section 298-C (person of Qadiani group, etc., calling himself a Moslem or preaching or propagating his faith) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).

The community’s spokesperson, Saleemuddin, said the slaughter was being performed within the confines of a house and not in a public place. "The community is being persecuted," he told Dawn.com.

The religious affairs ministry had asked the interior ministry earlier this month to ensure the implementation of Article 260(3) of the Constitution, which classifies segments of society as ’non-Moslems’, and Section 298-C of the PPC.

A letter addressed to the interior secretary, dated July 6, which Dawn.com has seen, stated that the article and Section 198-C "prevented" the Ahmadis from "posing themselves as Moslems and performing the Islamic practices".

"It is stated that the implementation of the penal provisions contained in the Pakistain Penal Code is the responsibility of interior ministry (law enforcement agencies) up to extent of ICT and provincial governments up to extent of provinces," the letter added.

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India-Pakistan

Canada protecting Khalistanis, gangsters has become a bane for India’s security

2022-06-04

[OneIndia] The killing of Sidhu Moosewala has once again put the spot-light back on Canada.

India has often raised concerns about pro-Khalistan elements operating in Canada.

The Indian High Commission in Ottawa has flagged concerns to the foreign ministry of Canada about the gangster involved in ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful crimes in Punjab. It may be recalled that following the death of Moosewala the Punjab
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Police had said that Goldy Brar, a Canadian based member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who has 16 cases against him in India was involved in the incident. Further Bishnoi's nephew has grabbed credit for the killing of Moosewala.

Post the blast in Ludhiana, the police had found that the same was linked to Lakhbir Singh Landa, who lives in Canada. Landa has 20 cases against him in India.

Last year the National Investigation Agency had filed a chargesheet against four operatives of the Khalistan Tiger Force in connection with cases of assassinations. The probe revealed that accused Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the chief of the Khalistan Tiger Force, a designated terrorist had along with Arshdeep Singh formed a gang and recruited the other accused. Their intention was to threaten and extort money from businessmen based in Punjab. They also effected the assassination to disturb communal harmony in Punjab. Both Nijjar and Singh are currently in Canada.

Prior to this the NIA had filed a chargesheet against operatives of the Khalistan Liberation Force

...Khalistan is the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI as yet another arrow in their quiver aimed at the Indian throat. The Khalistan Liberation Force, like Antifa, is the umbrella for a bunch of Sikh groups that have engaged in armed struggle® against India since the 1980s...
. It said that the foreign based KLF leadership had recruited, financed and armed a local gangster Sukhmeet Pak and tasked him to execute the killings through his associates.

In May following the Rocket Propelled Grenade attack on the Punjab Police's Intelligence headquarters in Mohali, the police had found that it was the handiwork of the pro-Khalistan outfit Babbar Khalsa and the ISI. The key conspirator had been identified as Lakhvir Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran. He has been in Canada from 2017. Singh a gangster is a close aide of one Harwinder Singh, who was close to Babbar Khalsa International chief, Wadhwa Singh and the ISI.

The anti-India sentiment from Canada is a well known fact. Pro-Khalistan groups such as the Sikhs for Justice have been trying to rake up sentiments and revive the Khalistan movement in Punjab. The biggest concern for the Indian security agencies of late has been the Sikhs for Justice. This proscribed outfit has a strong presence online and has been able to radicalise several persons to fight against the government of India. Last year the NIA widened the ambit of its probe in connection with the Sikhs for Justice (SJF). Sources tell OneIndia that there have been a lot of funds that have been channelised in the past couple of months. Over USD 1 lakh has been collected in the name of the farmer protests, the official cited above said.

In November a team of the National Investigation Agency reached Canada on to probe the funding routes for pro-Khalistan groups which have been instrumental in creating unrest in India. The NIA team also discussed with Canadian authorities the findings of the probe against terror groups such as the Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force, Sikhs for Justice and Khalistan Tiger Force.

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Attempts at reviving Khalistan movement is no worry but dismissing it altogether will be fatal

2022-05-18

[OneIndia] The platforms Khalistanis use to spearhead their movement are Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force and Pannu's Sikhs for Justice and Lashkar-e-Khalsa.

Traumatic memories of Khalistan movement that rocked the nation and Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers

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