New Delhi: Indian Intelligence agencies have alerted the Canadian government about pro-Khalistan terrorists running a camp near Mission city in British Columbia planning attacks in Punjab, according to a media report.
Punjab intelligence officers have prepared a report mentioning that Canadian Sikh Hardeep Nijjar, the new operational head of Khalistan Terror Force (KTF), has formed a module comprising Sikh youths to carry out the attacks.
"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," the report said.
Nijjar is a baptized Sikh staying in Surrey since 1995 on a Canadian passport. Seeking Nijjar’s extradition, the Punjab government has submitted the report to the Ministry of External Affairs as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The disclosures were made in the report after an alleged KTF member, Mandeep Singh, was arrested in Ludhiana two weeks ago, following his phone calls to Pakistan-based terror outfit Dal Khalsa International's (DKI) chief Gajinder Singh and Nijjar.
The report also stated that 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 and was detained by Thai authorities when he was flying back from Lahore to Vancouver via Bangkok last year.
Both Mandeep and Nijjar have made frequent visits to Pakistan for arms training with the ISI, says the report. It has also attached their recent photographs brandishing AK-47s outside Nankana Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan.
