Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Khalistani terrorist whose security is supposedly assured by the USA, has lengthy been backed by Pakistan. Regardless of partaking in a number of anti-India actions, nations like the USA and Canada have taken little motion towards him.
Pannun, who heads Sikhs for Justice (SFJ)a corporation banned in India, continues to function freely, fueling the Khalistani motion and inciting anti-India violence by social media. Nevertheless, the silence of those nations stays deafening, despite the fact that they’re totally conscious of Pakistan’s involvement in Pannun’s agenda.
PANNUN COLLABORATION WITH PAKISTAN
Pakistan’s involvement in Pannun’s actions grew to become extra evident when it was revealed that Sikhs for Justice, a non-profit group registered in the USA, was established with the assistance of a Pakistani nationwide named Mohammad Salman Yunus.
Intelligence stories point out that Pannun, alongside together with his brother Avtar Singh Pannun and Yunus, based SFJ below the authorized framework of a non-profit group, listed below firm quantity EXTUID_4237096, below the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia.
Yunus additionally collaborated with Pannun in creating his first enterprise enterprise: a regulation agency. This partnership was additional expanded when Pannun and Yunus launched the Kashmir Khalistan Referendum Entrance (KKRF). The KKRF operates below the “K2 desk”, a mannequin developed by Pakistan’s ISI within the Eighties with the intention of destabilizing India by supporting the separatist actions in Kashmir and Khalistan.
ROLE OF ISI AND SEPARATIST ALLIANCES
The KKRF’s actions are carefully linked to a different key actor: Ghazala Habib, head of the separatist group Associates of Kashmir (FOK). FOK, which additionally works below the affect of Pakistan’s ISI, is actively concerned in selling an anti-India agenda.
In August 2020, FOK hosted a webinar attended by members of the US Congress and Pakistani figures comparable to Sardar Masood Khan, Abdul Hamid Lone and Avtar Singh Pannun. This assembly mirrored the deepening connections between separatist actions and worldwide platforms.
In September 2020, the World Kashmir Discussion board and Associates of Kashmir met to advertise their agenda. Experiences counsel that Ghazala Habib and Pannun additionally collaborated with officers of the USA Fee on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom (USCIRF) to advertise their anti-India propaganda. Regardless of the transparency of those operations, Western nations comparable to Canada and the USA haven’t taken vital motion towards these separatist teams.
ISI OF PAKISTAN AND KHALISTAN: A LONG-LASTING AGENDA
Pakistan’s present ISI assist continues to gasoline Khalistani separatist teams. Pannun’s actions, together with organizing the Khalistan referendum, are a part of a broader technique to weaken Indian unity.
Regardless of the general public publicity of those alliances, Khalistani extremists, notably in Canada, take pleasure in impunity. Their actions are unrestricted and so they proceed to push their separatist trigger from overseas.
International coverage specialists level to the continued inaction of the USA, the UK and Canada on the subject of Khalistani terrorism. It’s evident that even in the course of the peak of the Khalistan motion within the Eighties, when Punjab was engulfed in violence, these nations didn’t take decisive motion.
Regardless of making imprecise guarantees of accountability, concrete measures to cease these organizations have by no means been carried out. These nations have apparently allowed such teams to flourish, and their silence has solely emboldened them.
