Babbar Khalsa forced by ISI to smuggle drugs, fake currency: Intelligence report

Tuesday, 20/08/2013

http://www.punjabnewsline.com/punjab/babbar-khalsa-forced-by-isi-to-smuggle-drugs-fake-currency-intelligence-report/85152

NEW DELHI/ CHANDIGARH: Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda has revealed that pro-Khalistani terrorist organization Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) is planning to carry out terror attacks in India.

He has also confirmed the recent threats from Sikh militant outfits and said that Babbar Khalsa chief Wadhawa Singh resides in Karachi in Pakistan but most of the decisions related to the organization are taken by Ratandeep Singh now as Wadhawa has grown old.

Tunda has also admitted that BKI had demanded consignment of explosives to Delhi before the Commonwealth Games in 2010 which he had sent as well.

The intelligence alerts say that BKI is under lot of pressure from Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI and is forced to resort to drug smuggling and fake currency on its directions.

Tunda also confirmed the secret intelligence document inputs which said that Babbar Khalsa was planning a terror attack in India on Independence Day.

The document says, “There is a high degree of threat from the Pak-based Sikh militants to carry out subversive activities in India, including a terror strike on New Delhi or targeted killings in Punjab, aimed at causing communal strife. Recent threat indicates that Ratandeep Singh (RD) of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) presents the greatest threat."

It further says: “ISI has held at least two important meetings in February and March 2013 with Pak-based leaders of various Sikh extremist outfits such as Wadhawa Singh (BKI), Paramjeet Singh Panjawar (KCF), Lakhweer Singh Rode (ISYF), Jagtar Singh Tara (KTF), Ranjeet Singh Meeta (KZF), Gajinder Singh of (Dal Khalsa) and Harminder Singh Mintu of KLF. The ISI message has been loud and clear that safe havens will only be available at a price and the price would be to rekindle the already extinguished fire of Sikh militancy in India. The ISI has clearly indicated that leaders of all these groups must carry out terror attacks on Indian soil if they have to justify their stay in Pakistan. In this deal, while the terror operatives meant for operations in India will need to be identified by the Sikh terrorists ensconced in Pakistan, the requisite training for assembly of explosives etc can be provided by specialists from the ISI. The ISI has even offered to provide suitable liaison with functional terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Toiba etc."

The document further sheds light on ISI pressure on BKI: "Following diktat from the ISI, most of the Pak-based Sikh militant leaders are in a fix. Well-aware that Sikh militancy in India was a thing of the past and no longer a viable entity, these Sikh militant fugitive leaders had slowly graduated to crime and involved in narco trafficking and FICN smuggling. However, two young Sikh militant operatives, Ratandeep Singh of the BKI and Harminder Singh Mintoo of the KLF have taken on the challenge and are actively planning to carry out terror attacks in India in the near future. If they are successful, it may lead to increased isolation and irrelevance of the other Sikh militant leaders, currently enjoying the hospitality and ISI patronage in Pakistan."

"Ratandeep Singh is one of the most dangerous and well trained active Sikh militants currently in Pakistan. He has been repeatedly trained by the Pak ISI in weapons and explosives from 1993 onwards and the ISI has ensured upgradation with time of his technical skill-set, especially in assembly of IEDs. Jagmohan Singh, who had assassinated religious ideologue Rulda Singh, had been personally trained by Ratandeep Singh in 2009. In October 2011, Ratandeep Singh had organized transfer of a large consignment of arms and FICN across the Indo-Pak border for an operation focussed on targeting a Shiv Sena leader in Punjab. Alertness of the security forces neutralized this attempt before the third consignment of arms (10 AK-47s) could be smuggled into India from Pakistan.”

The document says that Ratandeep Singh has also established operational bases in countries like Cambodia and Thailand.

One Sikh militant Karanveer was recently trained by Ratandeep Singh in April this year at a Lahore farm house.

It is believed that Ratandeep is providing training to small group of Sikh youth in Pakistan and on assembly of IEDs and handling of weapons such as AK-47.