U.S. authorities thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    The paper identified Gurpatwant Singh Pannun as the target of the foiled plot.

    Isn’t this the same guy that threatened another Kanishka bombing, similar to the 1985 tragedy?

    Canada investigates alleged ‘threats’ against Air India after Sikh boycott call

    The US-based activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun posted a video last week in which he called for a boycott of India’s flagship carrier.

    “We are asking the Sikh people not to fly via Air India on November 19. There will be a global blockade. On November 19, don’t travel by Air India or your life will be in danger,” he said in the video, a mix of Punjabi and English.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Financial Times said that the sources did not say if the protest to India resulted in the plot being abandoned by the plotters, or if it was foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

    The protest to New Delhi was registered after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed on a state visit by President Joe Biden in June, the report said.

    The report comes two months after Canada said there were “credible” allegations linking Indian agents to the June murder of a Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in a Vancouver suburb.

    The FT report said Pannun had declined to say whether U.S. authorities had warned him about the plot, but quoted him as saying he would “let the U.S. government respond to the issue of threats to my life on American soil from the Indian operatives”.

    Canada worked very closely with the United States on intelligence that Indian agents had been potentially involved in Nijjar’s murder, a senior Canadian government source told Reuters in September.

    The Financial Times report mentioned that the U.S. shared details of the thwarted plot with a wider group of allies after Canada’s public accusation.

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