Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Khalistani Terrorist Whose “Assassination Plot” Was Foiled
In the aboriginal comments from the US over an address on India’s declared captivation in artifice to annihilate Khalistani agitator Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a White House agent said they are alleviative this affair with “utmost seriousness” and accept aloft it with the Indian government at the seniormost levels.
The comments from the National Security Council Agent Adrienne Watson came afterward the UK-based circadian Financial Times appeared that the US “thwarted a cabal to assassinate” Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American clay and “issued an admonishing to India’s government over apropos it was complex in the plot,”
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun also came on foreign conspiracy theory
Watson said, “Indian counterparts expressed surprise and concern. They stated that activity of this nature was not their policy. Based on a discussion with senior US Government officials, we understand the Indian government is further investigating this issue and will have more to say about it in the coming days. We have conveyed our expectation that anyone deemed responsible should be held accountable.”
The FT address about the artifice adjoin Pannun came two months afterwards Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that Canadian aegis agencies were acid “credible allegations” about an abeyant articulation amid Indian government agents and the killing of Khalistan agitator Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver in June. The Indian government had alone Canada’s allegations as “absurd” and “motivated”.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, responded to queries on the FT report.
“During the course of recent discussions on India-US security cooperation, the US side shared some inputs pertaining to the nexus between organized criminals, gun-runners, terrorists, and others. The inputs are a cause of concern for both countries and they decided to take necessary follow-up action,” said Bagchi.
Who is Gurpatwant Singh Pannun?
Pannun is a Canadian and American aborigine who works as the accepted admonition of Sikhs for Justice. The pro-Khalistan advocate has been a key organizer of nonbinding referendums that seek an abstracted Sikh accompaniment – captivated in countries with ample Indian diasporas such as Canada, the UK, and Australia.
Pannun was built in Khankot Apple on the outskirts of Amritsar — the son of an above Punjab Accompaniment Agricultural Marketing Board agent Mahinder Singh. He is believed to have accepted accelerating from Punjab University in the 1990s and founded the SFJ in 2007. The New York-based organization advocates for an absolute Sikh accompaniment alleged Khalistan to be carved out of India.
The Indian government banned the SFJ in 2019 beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for its anti-India activities. A year after Pannun was declared an “individual terrorist” beneath the UAPA for announcing secessionism and allegedly auspicious Punjabi Sikh adolescence to booty up arms.
