Sikh "Militancy" Or Scaremongering

[Pyara]

India Media "summarising" all their recent reports. Any Sikh hater's going to love this summary..

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/1

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/2

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/3

Unease in Punjab again

Harpreet Bajwa

Posted: Wed Sep 01 2010, 01:14 hrs

Chandigarh:

Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Mathur’s warning last week against the attempt by “outside agencies” to forge a nexus between Sikh separatist outfits and organisations like the Lashkar-e-Toiba comes on the back of a year of increased militant activity in Punjab and abroad.

Security forces have detected a worrying trend. They say that there are serious efforts by the old timers, who had been lying dormant over the years, to revive militancy and that they are in touch with their mentors abroad. Intelligence sources say that about 300 militants mainly belonging to separatist groups like Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, are operating from Germany, Pakistan, France, Switzerland, the UK and Denmark. There are reports that joint efforts by the BKI and LeT have led to militants being sent for training to Pakistan through Nepal, Malaysia and Thailand.

TERROR ABROAD

In a daring strike by militants belonging to the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), Sant Ramanand of Dera Sachkhand was shot dead inside a gurdwara in Vienna May last year. Six of the accused are now facing trial in local court in the Austrian capital.

The Vienna police also foiled an attack on G S Dhillon, chief of Radha Soami Dera earlier this month when they detained four KZF members ahead of the planned strike. Later two KZF members were arrested by the German Police in the same connection.

ANOTHER DERA TARGET

Lilly Kumar a supporter of Dera Sacha Sauda was gunned down in July last year at Mansa by BKI militants and two militants were later arrested in connection with the case. In August, Balbir Singh Bhootana, owing allegiance to Khalistan Commando Force and Babbar Khalsa International, was arrested after an operation at the Ludhiana Railway Station. Allegedly the mastermind behind the killing of Lilly Kumar, he later admitted to planning the murder and providing ammunition to one Makhan Singh, another terrorist arrested in the Kumar case.

THE UK TRAIL

The killing of Rulda Singh of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat at his home in Grain Market in Patiala by BKI militants last July threw up a trail going all the way to the UK. With the Punjab police working closely with their counterparts in the UK, the West Midlands Police arrested four persons on suspicion of murdering Singh. The accused, all British nationals, were detained in Wolverhampton, Coventry and Smethwick, near Birmingham. Gursharan Bir and Pyara Singh were suspected to have fired the shots while Paramjit Pamma was the mastermind of the entire plot. “Bir had travelled to India on a forged passport of another co-accused Amritbir Singh to execute the alleged murder,” said a police official.

GUN AND DRUG RUNNING

A string of arms and drug seizures revealed a pattern of clandestine funding activities. In September last year police had arrested three militants, including two who had gone to Rajasthan to procure a weapons consignment to be used for terrorist activities in Punjab. A drug peddler, Sode Khan was arrested and forty eight kgs of smuggled heroin worth Rs 48 crore in the global market and more then half a dozen 9 mm pistols were seized from him in Barmer in Jaisalmer district by the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad. Khan confessed that the weapons and drugs were meant for the BKI operating in Punjab. Besides, two attempts were made to explode bombs in Nabha and Halwara by the Khalistan Liberation Force militants but they failed to explode. Two kilograms of RDX was found in a car abandoned near a busy Railway Station in Amritsar in May. It had two packets of explosives in the car with a detonator, two nine volt batteries, three meters of wiring and an LPG cylinder.

In July this year Harminder Singh, the main accused in the Shingar cinema blast case in Ludhiana, was arrested by the Khanna Police. Singh was the mastermind of the October 2007 blast that claimed seven lives and left more then 31 people injured. Intelligence sources revealed that he had been hiding in Pakistan and Nepal and organising terrorist activities in India.

He had received funds to the tune of lakhs from Pakistan and England besides a few other European countries. Explosives and ammunition apart from a fake voter ID card were recovered from him.

Nearly two months ago, two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were gunned down by the police in Gurdaspur district on their way to J-K, according to intelligence sources. A policeman was also killed in the encounter.

Punjab DGP P S Gill said confirmed the rise in militant activities. “During the last year we have busted several terrorist modules and have arrested militants, seized arms and explosives and have foiled attempts to disrupt peace.”

[Pyara]

India Media "summarising" all their recent reports. Any Sikh hater's going to love this summary..

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/1

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/2

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/unease-in-punjab-again/675637/3

Unease in Punjab again

Harpreet Bajwa

Posted: Wed Sep 01 2010, 01:14 hrs

Chandigarh:

Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Mathur’s warning last week against the attempt by “outside agencies” to forge a nexus between Sikh separatist outfits and organisations like the Lashkar-e-Toiba comes on the back of a year of increased militant activity in Punjab and abroad.

Security forces have detected a worrying trend. They say that there are serious efforts by the old timers, who had been lying dormant over the years, to revive militancy and that they are in touch with their mentors abroad. Intelligence sources say that about 300 militants mainly belonging to separatist groups like Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, are operating from Germany, Pakistan, France, Switzerland, the UK and Denmark. There are reports that joint efforts by the BKI and LeT have led to militants being sent for training to Pakistan through Nepal, Malaysia and Thailand.

TERROR ABROAD

In a daring strike by militants belonging to the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), Sant Ramanand of Dera Sachkhand was shot dead inside a gurdwara in Vienna May last year. Six of the accused are now facing trial in local court in the Austrian capital.

The Vienna police also foiled an attack on G S Dhillon, chief of Radha Soami Dera earlier this month when they detained four KZF members ahead of the planned strike. Later two KZF members were arrested by the German Police in the same connection.

ANOTHER DERA TARGET

Lilly Kumar a supporter of Dera Sacha Sauda was gunned down in July last year at Mansa by BKI militants and two militants were later arrested in connection with the case. In August, Balbir Singh Bhootana, owing allegiance to Khalistan Commando Force and Babbar Khalsa International, was arrested after an operation at the Ludhiana Railway Station. Allegedly the mastermind behind the killing of Lilly Kumar, he later admitted to planning the murder and providing ammunition to one Makhan Singh, another terrorist arrested in the Kumar case.

THE UK TRAIL

The killing of Rulda Singh of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat at his home in Grain Market in Patiala by BKI militants last July threw up a trail going all the way to the UK. With the Punjab police working closely with their counterparts in the UK, the West Midlands Police arrested four persons on suspicion of murdering Singh. The accused, all British nationals, were detained in Wolverhampton, Coventry and Smethwick, near Birmingham. Gursharan Bir and Pyara Singh were suspected to have fired the shots while Paramjit Pamma was the mastermind of the entire plot. “Bir had travelled to India on a forged passport of another co-accused Amritbir Singh to execute the alleged murder,” said a police official.

GUN AND DRUG RUNNING

A string of arms and drug seizures revealed a pattern of clandestine funding activities. In September last year police had arrested three militants, including two who had gone to Rajasthan to procure a weapons consignment to be used for terrorist activities in Punjab. A drug peddler, Sode Khan was arrested and forty eight kgs of smuggled heroin worth Rs 48 crore in the global market and more then half a dozen 9 mm pistols were seized from him in Barmer in Jaisalmer district by the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad. Khan confessed that the weapons and drugs were meant for the BKI operating in Punjab. Besides, two attempts were made to explode bombs in Nabha and Halwara by the Khalistan Liberation Force militants but they failed to explode. Two kilograms of RDX was found in a car abandoned near a busy Railway Station in Amritsar in May. It had two packets of explosives in the car with a detonator, two nine volt batteries, three meters of wiring and an LPG cylinder.

In July this year Harminder Singh, the main accused in the Shingar cinema blast case in Ludhiana, was arrested by the Khanna Police. Singh was the mastermind of the October 2007 blast that claimed seven lives and left more then 31 people injured. Intelligence sources revealed that he had been hiding in Pakistan and Nepal and organising terrorist activities in India.

He had received funds to the tune of lakhs from Pakistan and England besides a few other European countries. Explosives and ammunition apart from a fake voter ID card were recovered from him.

Nearly two months ago, two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were gunned down by the police in Gurdaspur district on their way to J-K, according to intelligence sources. A policeman was also killed in the encounter.

Punjab DGP P S Gill said confirmed the rise in militant activities. “During the last year we have busted several terrorist modules and have arrested militants, seized arms and explosives and have foiled attempts to disrupt peace.”