{"id":27194,"date":"2023-11-22T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/us-thwarts-plot-to-kill-sikh-separatist-issues-warning-to-india-report\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:19:04","slug":"us-thwarts-plot-to-kill-sikh-separatist-issues-warning-to-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-thwarts-plot-to-kill-sikh-separatist-issues-warning-to-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US thwarts plot to kill Sikh separatist, issues warning to India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>US 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 <em>Financial Times (FT)<\/em> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/56f7d6d6-6a93-4172-a49e-d8a91991e29d\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from India\u2019s foreign ministry, or from the US embassy in New Delhi to requests for comment on the report.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The protest to New Delhi was registered after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1761253\">state visit<\/a> by President Joe Biden in June, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes two months after Canada said there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1776704\/indian-envoy-expelled-as-pm-trudeau-links-delhi-to-sikh-leaders-death\">\u201ccredible\u201d allegations<\/a> linking Indian agents to the June murder of a Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in a Vancouver suburb.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1776725\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>India has rejected Canada\u2019s accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the diplomatic warning to India, US federal prosecutors have also filed a sealed indictment against at least one suspect in a New York district court, the <em>FT<\/em> report said.<\/p>\n<p>The paper identified Gurpatwant Singh Pannun as the target of the foiled plot.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>FT<\/em> report said Pannun had declined to say whether US authorities had warned him about the plot, but quoted him as saying he would \u201clet the US government respond to the issue of threats to my life on American soil from the Indian operatives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pannun, like Nijjar, is a proponent of a decades-long, but now fringe demand to carve out an independent Sikh homeland from India named Khalistan.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s anti-terror agency recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1791216\/indias-anti-terror-agency-files-case-against-sikh-separatist-for-air-india-threat\">filed a case against him<\/a> for threatening not to let flag carrier Air India operate anywhere in the world while warning its passengers of danger to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Pannun was registered under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 and under sections of the Indian Penal Code, the National Investigation Agency had said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPannun threatened that Air India would not be allowed to operate in the world \u2026 in his video messages, released on Nov 4,\u201d it had said, adding that he had urged Sikhs not to travel on Air India flights from Sunday, \u201cclaiming a threat to their lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1777453\">worked very closely<\/a> with the United States on intelligence that Indian agents were potentially involved in Nijjar\u2019s murder, a senior Canadian government source told <em>Reuters<\/em> in September.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>FT<\/em> report mentioned that the US shared details of the thwarted plot with a wider group of allies after Canada\u2019s public accusation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US 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 (FT) reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. 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