IS IT NOT ANOTHER BLUF, WILL INDIA SUSTAIN IT: MYSTICALLY KHALISTAN TERRORIST BANNED OUTFIT CHIEF SHOT DEAD IN LAHORE PAKISTAN?
Col (R) Hassan Yousuf
Trainer Futurology, Smart Management & IT / Digi Tech at Pakistan Institute of Management
Worthy audience surprisingly Khalistan Commando Force?(KCF) chief (63) heading the Khalistan Commando Force-Panjwar group Panjwar, also known as Malik Sardar Singh was killed in the gunfight in Johar Town Lahore, his shooter sustained injuries too. “The gunmen shot Panjwar in his head and he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital, ”a Pakistani police officer said, adding his guard was also injured and succumbed later. The native of Panjwar village in Punjab’s?Tarn Taran?district, allegedly he joined the outfit in 1986 (prior to which he was working in a Indian Central Cooperative Bank in Sohal) Paramjit Singh. In the 1990s, Panjwar took charge of KCF, following the elimination of Labha Singh at the hands of Indian security forces & was designated as a terrorist by India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in July 2020.He is believed by Indians to have crossed over to Pakistan and stayed in Lahore while his wife and children relocated to Germany. According to ‘India Today” report, on Saturday 06 May 2023 Paramjit Singh Panjwar, a most wanted Khalistani terrorist shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Lahore, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
1.????He faced several cases in the state and fled to Pakistan in 1990 & allegedly unknown hands provided him a safe house in Lahore and a new identity: Malik Sardar Singh. In Pakistan, Panjwar was involved in drugs and weapons smuggling, arms training to youths and other subversive activities. India designated him a terrorist in July 2020 under the UAPA. According to reports, Panjwar was gunned down by two unidentified bike-borne assassins, he was shot in the head died on the spot, his guard was wounded. According to a report, Panjwar was pronounced dead on arrival by doctors at a hospital. The guard succumbed to death later in the day, the agency added, quoting a police officer.
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2.??????This killing is the latest instance of terror kingpins being targeted outside India. In February, Bashir Ahmad Peer, a self-styled commander of the terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi. In the same month, former commander of Pakistan-based terror outfit Al Badr, Syed Khalid Raza, was killed in a similar manner outside his residence in Karachi while Kashmir-born terrorist, Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger, alias Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri,?who had joined the Islamic State (IS), was reportedly killed in February in Kunar province of Afghanistan.
3.????Panjwar had joined the KCF in 1986. In 1986, the KCF was headed by Sukhdev Singh, alias Sukha Shapai, who was then serving as a police constable in Punjab (India). In 1989, Shapai was killed in a police encounter at Tanda in Hoshiarpur and thereafter, Kanwarjit Singh of Sultanwind in Amritsar became the KCF chief while Paramjit Singh Panjwar became its deputy chief. After Kanwarjit’s death, Panjwar became the KCF chief. Before he escaped to Pakistan in 1995-96, Panjwar was involved in a number of killings in Punjab, according to official sources. Though he was inactive for the last couple of years, Panjwar had been operating from Lahore and was involved in arranging arms training for youths in Pakistan. He was engaged in supplying arms and ammunition and subsequent infiltration into India for targeting VIPs and economic installations.“Panjwar’s complicity in promoting drug trade and fake Indian currency notes (FICN) operation in Punjab are well documented. Efforts are being made by his organization KCF to reactive former militants, sleeper cells and also those on bail and it has been in favour of forming a nexus with other forces hostile to India,” the ministry had said.
4.????The KCF came into existence in February 1986 and the modus operandi of this organization was to commit bank robberies and kidnappings for ransom for use to purchase sophisticated weapons for terrorist activities. The banned outfit was involved in various terrorist attacks in India, which included a bomb attack in October 1988, killing 10 Rai Sikhs in Ferozepur and the killing of Major Gen BN Kumar, according to the ministry.Panjwar was also behind a number of IED explosions in Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab, said sources. His wife, who along with two sons was staying in Germany, died in September 2022.Allegedly he had got Pakistan’s national ID card in the name of Gulzar Singh that is to say the invisible hands in India/Pakistan had planned to reactivate Panjwar by using his old contacts in Punjab in a bid to revive/control militancy. Panjwar had a large number of contacts in border districts, especially in Amritsar and Tarn Taran, during the militancy period in Punjab.