Khalistan Commando Power chief Panjwar Singh shot useless

Panjwar, who was 63 years previous, was labelled as a terrorist by India beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act in July 2020.

Paramjit Singh Panjwar, the chief of the Khalistan Commando Power and Malik Sardar Singh, a needed terrorist in India, was shot useless by unknown assailants on Saturday whereas he went out for a morning stroll near his house in Pakistan’s Lahore, in keeping with authorities.

When two gunmen opened fireplace on Panjwar and his guard in a park at Solar Flower Housing Society in Jauhar City of Lahore, they fled on a bike.

Terrorist Chief Assassinated

In keeping with a high-ranking official from the Punjab Police in Pakistan, Panjwar Singh was shot within the head by gunmen and was declared useless upon arrival on the hospital. The officer additionally talked about that Panjwar’s guard was injured and later handed away on the identical day. 

Pakistani intelligence companies, such because the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), Navy Intelligence (MI), and Counter-Terrorism Division, had been concerned within the investigation.

After the killing, the Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) sealed off the realm and initiated an investigation, prohibiting media personnel from getting into the crime scene. This incident represents one other case the place infamous terrorists have been focused outdoors India. 

In February of this yr, Bashir Ahmad Peer, a self-proclaimed chief of the terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed by unknown attackers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Focused Terror: String of Assassinations Shake Pakistan

Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of the terrorist group Al Badr based mostly in Pakistan, was additionally killed in an analogous method outdoors his Karachi house throughout the identical month. Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger, often known as Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, an extremist from Kashmir who had joined the Islamic State (IS), was reportedly killed in February within the Afghan province of Kunar.

Because the investigation proceeded, a witness recounted to the CTD officers what that they had noticed. In keeping with the eyewitness, Panjwar and his guard had been current within the park at roughly 6 am when a gunman approached them and started capturing. The witness said that the assailant swiftly ran in direction of the society gate and escaped with an confederate who had been ready for him outdoors.

In keeping with a supply in CTD, the perpetrators performed a week-long reconnaissance after recording feedback from a number of residents of the housing neighborhood. A few groups from the intelligence providers have been fashioned to apprehend the perpetrators and the community that supported them, he stated, including that “we now have an essential clue in regards to the killers.”

Sources inside the Lahore police have disclosed that the investigation has been entrusted to the ISI, and so they have requested that the police not file an FIR till the ISI grants approval. Consequently, the companies have secured the crime scene whereas the Lahore police have been directed to face down.

Radical Sikh Chief Mourns Panjwar Singh’s Assassination

The assassination of Panjwar Singh has been deemed stunning by Kanwar Pal Singh, the chief of the unconventional Sikh group Dal Khalsa, in India. Kanwar Pal Singh revealed that he had recognized Panjwar for a few years, and the 2 had collaborated beneath the Panthic Committee throughout the peak of militancy within the early Nineteen Nineties. Panjwar was extremely considered a devoted fighter for the Sikh trigger, and inside the militant ranks, he was generally known as “Bhau,” a time period that refers to a revered elder brother in Tarn Taran, the city the place he was born in 1960.

In 1986, Panjwar joined the KCF (Khalistan Commando Power), led by Sukhdev Singh, often known as Sukha Sipahi, a police constable in Punjab, India. Nonetheless, in 1989, Sipahi was killed in a police encounter in Hoshiarpur. Following his loss of life, Kanwarjit Singh of Sultanwind in Amritsar turned the KCF’s chief, with Panjwar as his second-in-command.

After Kanwarjit Singh’s loss of life, Panjwar assumed management of the KCF. In 1995-96, he fled to Pakistan and had been residing in Lahore, though he had not been actively concerned within the group’s actions for a number of years. As a substitute, he targeted on organizing weapons coaching for younger individuals in Pakistan, supplying arms and ammunition, and facilitating infiltration into India to focus on VIPs and financial installations.