US-based neo-Khalistan terror group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has given a call for the assassination of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Home Minister of that State Anil Vij through a pre-recorded video clip.
The SFJ is a banned terror group under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The video was recorded on April 5 and released on Thursday. Through a separate Press statement issued on Thursday from New York, the outfit has opposed G20 summits in Jammu & Kashmir.
Besides being sheltered in the US, the SFJ is also backed by Pakistan’s ISI and the latest exhortations could be a bid to revive so-called Khalistan movement here in India following the dismantling of the secessionist network with the arrest of a host of alleged Khalistani leaders like Amritpal Singh and his cohorts, counter-terrorism experts said.
The outfit also gave a call to the Kashmiris to block the Srinagar airport to sensitise the delegates through holding of G20 meeting in Srinagar.
The SFJ is a rootless entity in terms of popular support and its leaders are spearheading the so-called Khalistan movement for earning their livelihood from their masters in the Pakistan Army and the notorious spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), analysts said.
The Centre is hosting the G20 tourism working group meeting under India’s presidency between May 22 and 24.
The SFJ is headed by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who is facing several cases on terrorism charges but is living freely in the US without any action from the law enforcement agencies there despite the American Government claiming to fight terrorism worldwide.
The US preaches Pakistan and other countries to rein in terror groups but is itself harbouring such groups. American server service provider Cloudflare Inc is known to host the websites of several UN-banned terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammad on the one hand and the ISI on the other, the analysts said.
The SFJ has also launched a dedicated email site for the Kashmiris to send emails urging the G20 ambassadors to “Boycott Kashmir Summit” and “Save Kashmiri Pundits”.
The Save Kashmiri Pundits” could be a ploy to target them through the Pakistani terror cohorts during the G20 summit and run a propaganda overdrive against the Government, the analysts said.
In its bid to scare the member countries of the grouping, the SFJ has also written a letter to G20 countries with the dubious claim that the agencies here can orchestrate violent incidents in Jammu and Kashmir.
In its letter to the G20 countries, the SJF dubbed the abrogation of Article 370 as “annexation by the Modi Government. The Pakistan Government has also opposed the abrogation of the special provision to justify its low intensity conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.
