According to the reports by the Indian intelligence agencies, pro-Khalistan terrorists are running a camp near Mission city in British Columbia and planning to carry out strikes in Punjab. Intelligence agencies have already alerted the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. This event has a high level of significance as the Pathankot terror attack, allegedly comprising the Khalistan terrorist happened just before six months.

Canadian Sikh Hardeep Nijjar has taken over as the operational head of the Khalistan Terror Force (KTF) and have formed an organization to carry out the attacks, according to the report prepared by the Punjab intelligence sleuths. To seek Nijjar’s extradition the report is already submitted by the Punjab government to the Ministry of External Affairs as well as Ministry of Home Affairs.

“Nijjar was to arrange weapons from Pakistan but due to high alert on the border in the wake of Pathankot incident, it could not materialize,” says the report with referencing the January to Pathankot terror attack.

The disclosures were made in the report after Mandeep Singh, alleged KTF member was arrested from Chak Kalan village in Ludhiana two weeks ago due to his phone calls to Pakistan-based terror outfit Dal Khalsa International’s or DKI’s  head Gajinder Singh and Nijjar.

“Mandeep came to India in January 2016 from Canada with a specific plan to target police officers, Shiv Sena leaders and dera chiefs. While in India, he was in constant touch with Nijjar and Gajinder Singh in Pakistan. He was doing a recce of targets in Patiala and Ludhiana while Nijjar was to arrange weapons from Pakistan,” report has added.

The cases have been registered against the attacks on Shiv Sena and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Ludhiana and Jalandhar, recently. The report said that Mandeep was in touch with DKI chief Gajinder Singh who had masterminded the hijack of Srinagar-Delhi Indian Airlines flight in 1981.

A proclaimed terrorist in Punjab, Nijjar who is a baptized Sikh staying in Surrey since 1995 on a Canadian passport (QK139247), is wanted in the case of brutal 2007 Shingaar Cinema blast in Ludhiana in which six people were killed.

The report has said, “Nijjar has been imparting arms training to his group in Canada after the arrest of former KTF chief Jagtar Tara in Thailand by Interpol last year. He took Mandeep Singh and three more Sikh youths recently for AK-47 training in a range near Mission where they were made to fire for four hours daily.”

He was detained by the Thai authorities when he was flying to Vancouver from Lahore via Bangkok last year, the report has added.

By Prajakt K.