INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI/AMRITSAR: Designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a known anti-India face who was head of pro-Khalistan outfits Khalistan Tiger
Force and the Canadian arm of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), was shot dead by unknown assailants at a parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey, Canada,
on Monday.According to reports reaching here, two unidentified gunmen shot 46-year-old Nijjar, who was the president of Guru Nanak Sikh
Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia
He had forcibly taken control of the shrine and turned it into a prominent centre of Khalistani activities.It was reported that Surrey Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), responding to a call, found an adult male inside a vehicle suffering from apparent gunshot wounds
They provided medical assistance until emergency health services arrived on the scene, but he could not be saved.Nijjar is the second
associate of SFJ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannu and the third Khalistani terrorist to have died in the last 45 days
May 6, Paramjit Singh Panjwar, the head of Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), was reportedly assassinated in Pakistan, reinforcing those
quarters which suspect that ISI, Pakistan's notorious spy agency that has been the main patron of Khalistani terrorists, could be engaged
in a purge to get rid of secessionists who have outlived their shelf lives and replace them with younger blood.Originally from Bhar Singh
Pura village in Jalandhar, and a permanent resident of Canada for the past several years, Nijjar was an accused or chargesheeted accused in
including at RSS gatherings, a Hindu priest and temple staff in Punjab; and funding the procurement of arms and ammunition and training Sikh
youths to give shape to terrorist activities in India.His notoriety grew after he raised an 80-foot-high Khalistani flag at the Indian
consulate in Vancouver.Nijjar also figured prominently in NIA cases relating to the organised crime syndicate run by KTF operatives in
Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan to raise funds through extortion and carry out smuggling of arms, ammunition and explosives across the
an accused in the 1985 Air India Kanishka terror bombing case who was later acquitted, in the same town of Surrey in British Columbia.Many
no longer safe.Nijjar had styled himself as a human rights activist to camouflage his antecedents
during which he claimed that he faced a threat from Indian spy agencies
Agencies here have also been alerting us and we also have been telling the agencies here that contract killers here can kill those who talk
prominent Khalistanis in quick succession to the rivalries among the various factions espousing the secessionist cause
mob that vandalised the Indian high commission in London in March
The ISI allegedly feared that Khanda could be deported to India, and might end up spilling the beans on how ISI has been using
pro-Khalistani elements to foment trouble in Punjab.Nijjar, agencies here suspect, was directed by ISI to eliminate Khanda through his aides
said.WatchKhalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, wanted in India, fatally shot in Canada's Surrey
