The Author is Former Director General of Information Systems and A Special Forces Veteran, Indian Army

Canada has again raked up the issue of India's involvement in the killing of the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) Chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. This is despite Graeme Menzies, Director of Fulcrum Group headquartered in the UK, terming the allegations of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bizarre while pointing out that:

• Nijjar came to Canada on a false passport and his refugee claim was rejected;
• 11 days after that, he married a woman who sponsored him for immigration, which was also rejected;
• yet Trudeau referred to him as a "Canadian" in the House of Commons?

This shows that Trudeau deliberately lied in the House of Commons of Nijjar being a Canadian, unless he had given prime ministerial sanction for granting Canadian citizenship to Nijjar. The latter is a possibility with Nijjar allowed to promote anti-India activities in Canada.

Canada permitted the so-called Khalistan rally calling to 'Kill India', eulogising 'Shaheed Nijjar' and targeting Indian diplomats on July 8, 2023 in Toronto under the garb of freedom of expression and democracy

Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Notably, Canada permitted the so-called Khalistan rally calling to 'Kill India', eulogising 'Shaheed Nijjar' and targeting Indian diplomats on July 8, 2023 in Toronto under the garb of freedom of expression and democracy. Both Canada and Britain go out of their way to please and support the policies of Washington. That is why a Khalistani could pull down the Indian flag from the Indian High Commission in London and there were anti-India protests and posters galore. Also, the Indian Consulate in San Francisco was set ablaze for the second time by a group of Khalistani radicals in five months on July 2, 2023 with US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller shedding crocodile tears, as if the CIA had no prior information.

It doesn't need much intelligence to decipher that internecine gang warfare is the reason behind the killings of Khalistanis, including Nijjar. This is because the Khalistan movement has transformed more into capturing power, controlling the narcotics trade, terrorism and taking control of the Gurudwaras. A significant issue is the involvement of states like Pakistan, Canada, the UK and the US in promoting the Khalistan movement.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

On March 20, 2021 the US said that it was working with the Indian government to hold accountable those behind a plot to kill Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, head of the terrorist organisation Sikhs For Justice (SFJ); during a Congressional hearing in the US, Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the issue is "serious". The US Justice Department has charged an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, with plotting to hire individuals to kill Pannun but the US will not accept that Gupta was lured for months to enter the plot by an unnamed CIA agent, and was acting on his own volition.

According to media report, Pannun recently claimed in a video that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had a meeting with them in Gurudwara Richmond Hills, New York in 2014, where he allegedly promised to release 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in lieu of financial support but later went back on his promises. He has not mentioned the amount and whether it was paid. However, in saying so, Pannun is either lying or is a bigger fool than he looks because neither Delhi Police nor the prisons are under the Delhi CM, which is well known. If Khalistanis want to secure Bhullar's release, they are more likely to attempt a jailbreak or try to bribe prison officials.

Political Scientist and Author Dr Ayesha Ray writes that Indian separatists and their educated Ivy League Gucci supporters in the West excel in diversionary tactics, deflection, lies and zero accountability

Pannun is an obvious CIA agent with complete immunity in his dealings, narcotics, smuggling, stoking separatism and the like. Sources have also revealed that the criminals Rahat Rao and Tariq Kiyani are two operatives planted by Pakistan's ISI in Canada. The trio of Rao, Kiyani, and Pannun were most likely involved in the killing of Nijjar in order to control the drug and immigration business in Canada. With the help of Pannun, ISI wanted to take over the drug business of Nijjar. Also, Nijjar's proximity and ties with Pakistan-based group leaders like Wadhwa Singh and Ranjeet Singh Neeta were not liked by the ISI, who decided to eliminate him.

Notably, political scientist and author in America, Dr Ayesha Ray writes, "What some of these with PhD in war learned early on is that Indian separatists (Sikh, Kashmiri and North East) and their educated Ivy League Gucci supporters in the West excel in diversionary tactics, deflection, lies, zero accountability".

It is abundantly clear that the US-led West wants to keep India under pressure in all possible ways. What is so special about Pannun anyway? The deafening rhetoric about this weasel being a US citizen must be viewed in the backdrop of the US having killed scores of foreign nationals abroad; a practice the US is continuing. More importantly, the CIA has been involved in orchestrating the killings of many Indian scientists, especially nuclear physicists like Dr Homi J. Bhabha. This also while promoting Pakistan's nuclear programme and its nuclear proliferation. It is high time the Indian Government musters guts to tell the US, and its pets like Canada, to get off the high horse.

The obvious CIA-MI6-ISI plan would have twin aims; getting more recruits to execute terror attacks in India or to kill a high-level official posted in foreign countries like in Canada or the UK

The latest is a report in 'The Guardian' of UK alleging that the Indian government carried out up to 20 assassinations in Pakistan since 2020 as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, citing unnamed Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives. But how is it that the Pakistan Army and the ISI are unable to catch the propagators of these periodic killings?

In fact, the Pakistan Army and the ISI would be behind these killings by design. Their problems need to be viewed from the perspective that the country is breeding terrorists at a very fast pace and the newer lot of trained terrorists want more power and control of finances and narcotics, for which the space is limited. In addition, the increasing payroll of terrorists, which continues to cover older operatives as well, some of whom are not of much use anymore aside from advice and monitoring, is pinching hard.

The obvious CIA-MI6-ISI plan would have twin aims; getting more recruits to execute terror attacks in India or to kill a high-level official posted in foreign countries like in Canada or the UK. There is need for utmost caution. America's surrogate child, ISIS, has already warned of lone-wolf attacks around the world. There is nothing wrong about the head of a country writing to his counterpart abroad. Notably, the POTUS Joe Biden has written a letter to Pakistan's Prime Minister for the very first time at the fag end of his Presidency. It is no coincidence that terrorist attacks have begun in Iran. India could be next with Biden shedding crocodile tears in sympathy.