Pak reluctant to grant visa to KCF chief’s sons, calls murder routine killing

KCF chief Paramjit Singh Panjwar He was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday in Lahore, Pakistan. Notably, in 2011, India handed over a list of fifty most wanted people who had taken refuge in Delhi and Pakistan, which included Panjwar.

Hindustan Times It was reported by Pakistani media on Sunday as the routine killing of a Pakistani Sikh named Sardar Singh Malik of Panjwar, one of the most wanted terrorists.

According to reports, Panjwar was shot with a 30-caliber pistol in the wee hours of the morning along with his gunman in Lahore’s Jauhar Town.

The official said Panjwar was walking along with his guard in the park of Sun Flower Housing Society in Lahore’s Johar Town, where he was staying, when the two assailants opened fire on them and fled on a motorcycle.

Pakistani media, however, did not mention the injured gunman.

pro khalistan Panjwar died in obscurityEven Pakistan denied visas to his sons settled in Germany to come to Pakistan for their father’s last rites.

The 63-year-old hailing from Panjwar, Tarn Taran district of Punjab, was involved in drug and arms smuggling and was designated as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in July 2020.

He joined KCF in 1986. Later he took the leadership of this organization and went to Pakistan. He was in Lahore and was working from there.

Panjwar’s death is also on target PakistanIndia’s reluctance to accept a country that once sheltered global terrorist Osama-bin-Laden (the terrorist, according to US intelligence, was living in Abbottabad in close proximity to a Pakistani army base) has also given asylum to fugitives in India. given.

Panjwar was accused of a list of five heinous crimes including drug smuggling, dealing in fake Indian currency and the cold-blooded murder of 18 students of Thapar Engineering College, Patiala. He was also responsible for smuggling Afghan heroin into the US, UK, Germany and Canada to raise funds for separatists targeting India.

The killing is the latest example of terror masterminds being targeted outside India. In February this year, Bashir Ahmed Peer, the self-styled commander of the terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

In the same month, Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Al Badr, was killed in a similar manner outside his residence in Karachi, while Kashmir-born terrorist Ejaz Ahmed Ahangar alias Abu Usman al-Kashmiri joined the ranks. Islamic State (IS), was reportedly killed in Kunar province of Afghanistan.

Hindustan Times It is reported that the killing of the Khalistani separatist leader at 6 am on Saturday is an operation run by an army colonel in the ISI directorate.