America foiled a plot to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, raised the matter with India: Report

The United States has foiled a plot to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, quoting unnamed officials. The newspaper also reported that the US government had “issued a warning” to India over concerns that New Delhi was “involved in a conspiracy” to assassinate Pannun. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American and Canadian citizen, is a leader of the US-based Sikhs for Justice. India has designated Sikhs for Justice as a terrorist organization.

The Financial Times report comes weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly alleged that agents linked to the Indian government were involved in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Like Pannun, Nijjar, a Khalistan supporter, was also killed in a shootout in Surrey, Canada in June this year. Trudeau’s allegations were strongly denied by the Indian government and led to a diplomatic dispute that has led to a steady decline in relations between the two countries.

Let us tell you that in a latest video, Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on Wednesday threatened to “strike” Air India flights at Toronto and Vancouver international airports in Canada on December 1. Pannun’s video threat comes a day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a case against the leader of the banned Sikh for Justice (SFJ) group over a video of him threatening the Indian flag carrier on November 4.

In this latest video, Punnun threatened to target flights AI 188 and AI 186 originating from Terminal One of the mentioned airports. Pannun said in his new video, “As General Counsel of SFJ, I reaffirm my call to boycott Air India, and the Modi government cannot stop SFJ from running the separatist Khalistan referendum, which the NIA despises terrorists. That’s the real motive behind the matter.”

Pannun said his video message was a “non-violent call” to “boycott” Air India and not to “bomb” it. He said that his campaign to boycott the airline would continue because “every dollar that goes to Air India and other Indian businesses is being used to perpetuate the existential threat of the Sikh population in India.

In the video, Pannun dedicated the campaign to Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead outside a gurudwara in Surrey in June this year. Earlier, Pannun had said that Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) will be renamed and will remain closed on November 19.

After the video went viral, the NIA booked Pannun under sections 120B, 153A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 18B and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. NIA spokesperson He said that as part of his concrete plan to promote terrorist acts in India and revive terrorism here, Pannun was trying to instigate the issues prevalent in Punjab, especially regarding Sikhism, by promoting enmity between Sikhs and others in the country. Creating a false story.

community. “The latest threat is in line with the same narrative that Pannun has actively promoted in the past by attempting to threaten and disrupt essential transportation network systems including railways as well as thermal power plants in India,” the spokesperson said.