The United States Department of Justice has filed an indictment alleging that an Indian agent hired an assassin to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist. It seems that the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his National Security Advisor Ajit Doval now believe in their own hype about India being a superpower that can get away with murdering American citizens on the US soil.
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| Sikh Leaders: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun (L), Hardeep Singh Nijjar (Mid), Paramjeet Singh Panwar (R) |
Earlier, a Canadian Sikh leader named Hardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered in June this year in British Columbia. The US DOJ believes that Nikhil Gupta was involved in both the killing in Canada of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and the attempted murder in New York, He is reported to have told an associate two days before the Nijjar’s slaying: “we are doing their job, brother. We are doing their New York [and] Canada [job],” according to the indictment. He lives in India and was arrested on the charges in the Czech Republic on June 30, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Gupta's plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was foiled in a US sting operation involving an informant who was being recruited by him to be the hitman.
“Modi and Doval have a much more macho approach to statecraft, including taking a more risky approach in intel operations in order to say, ‘Look at how tough I am in protecting India’s interests’,” said Paul McGarr, a specialist in South Asian security and intelligence at King's College London, according to France24 news agency. “RAW could do it before, but wouldn’t have conducted assassinations without Modi’s approval,” added McGarr. “RAW has got the political license to kill under Modi.”
The US DOJ decision to go public with charges came after President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and CIA Director William Burns warned India of potential consequences for the U.S.-India relationship over the actions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Indian government is engaged in a worldwide assassination campaign targeting Sikhs and Kashmiris seen as "terrorists" by New Delhi, according to leaked documents of Pakistani intelligence agencies. Inside Pakistan, a spate of assassinations and other attacks in recent years targeted people alleged to be involved in Sikh and Kashmiri activism as well as Islamist militancy inside India, according to The Intercept. Last month, the Pakistani government arrested people it believes were involved in targeted killings of Sikhs and Kashmiris inside Pakistan.
Narendra Modi has a long history of murdering minorities in his country. After the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002, Narendra Modi made the cover of India Today magazine with the caption "Hero of Hatred". Modi was denied a visa to visit the United States. The US visa ban on Modi was lifted in 2014 after he became prime minister. Since then, Narendra Modi's image has been rehabilitated by the West as the US and Western Europe seek allies in Asia to counter the rise of China. However, Modi's actions on the ground in India confirm that he remains "Hero of Hatred" and "Divider In Chief" at his core. A recent two-part BBC documentary explains this reality in significant detail. The first part focuses on the 2002 events in Gujarat when Modi as the state chief minister ordered the police to not stop the Hindu mobs murdering Muslims and burning their homes and businesses. The second part looks at Modi government's anti-Muslim policies, including the revocation of Kashmir's autonomy (article 370) and a new citizenship law (CAA 2019) that discriminates against Muslims. It shows the violent response by security forces to peaceful protests against the new laws, and interviews the family members of people who were killed in the 2020 Delhi riots orchestrated by Modi's allies.
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To be fair, I don't see this to be anymore morally reprehensible than the string of extra-territorial assassinations that US, Israeli, Chinese or Russian intelligence have perpetrated in other countries. As far as India is concerned, chaps like Pannun and Nijjar are terrorists under the pay of Pakistani intelligence services who pose a threat to its national security. India may have made efforts in the past to get them extradited for their crimes, but Western states are typically reluctant to prosecute or extradite "separatists" unless they pose a security threat to their citizens and interests. After all, the only reason Americans were serious about prosecuting cases against Mumbai attack planners like "David Hedley" was that American citizens too were killed in the attack.
If Americans and Israelis are within their rights to take out threats to its security by brazenly flouting international law, so can India. But the problem here is that inept Indian agents evidently goofed the operation. Taking out such targets in Pakistan might be a piece of cake (several such characters wanted by India have indeed been assassinated in Pakistan in recent months), but they should have been extra careful when planning such operations in Western soil.
There are a few things to be clarified here. The Hindutva groups may consider Muslims as their enemies, but not the Sikhs. Sikhism is after all an Indian religion and Sikhs have close ties with Hindus as well. It is common to see intermarriage between Sikhs and Hindus as long as they belong to same caste (eg: Jats). Moreover, Sikhs serve in disproportionately large numbers in Indian military and many Sikhs have served as chiefs of Army, Air Force and Navy. So unlike Indian Muslims, the Sikh community essentially tick the boxes of Sangh parivar's definition of "patriotism" and "culture".
Khalistan movement was funded by Pakistan in the 1980s as a retaliation to India's involvement in training and arming the Mukti bahini in Bangladesh liberation war. However, India's anti-insurgency operations in Punjab and Pakistan's switch of focus from Punjab to Kashmir insurgency in the late 1980s meant that Khalistani movement was pretty much snuffed out in Indian Punjab. It has survived only among a section of expatriate Sikhs in the West.
I do not doubt India's role in funding and arming the Baloch separatists and perhaps even the TTP. I mean, Indian govt would be a bunch of fools if they do not make use of all available opportunities to pay back Pakistan (with interest) for its role in training and arming separatists and jihadis in Kashmir and Punjab, and perpetrating the attacks in other Indian cities like Mumbai. It is also very likely that Indian agencies have had some help from Iranian regime and Taliban 2.0 in this regard, as both Iran and Afghanistan have some long running disputes with Pakistan.
Both India and Pakistan can keep playing this proxy war game for long, but with a weaker economy it would be Pakistan that would be the loser in the long term. Perhaps both the Pakistani and Indian establishments can come to their senses and realize that at the end of the day one cannot choose one's neighbours, and that it makes better sense to talk and resolve differences than to keep pricking each other with proxy groups.
It’s what all major powers do.
How many assassinations on how many continents has the CIA conducted?Any public moral outrage for these by freedom loving Americans?I am not aware.
But yes there presently seems to be a competence gap between RAW and CIA/MI6 tier assassinations.
Practice makes perfect.Besides these are small fry non white scum from the POV of the west the sort that get locked up at places at Guantanamo Bay without trial despite carrying western passports..no sanctions are expected by anyone just some optics for public consumption..
WHEN AJIT DOVAL A PANDOO THULLA PAHADI GADWALI,IS A NSA,AND PLOTTING KILLING OF AMERICANS AND CANADIANS - THEN DISASTER OCCURS!
THE ASSASSIN IS CAUGHT !
THE DNA OF THE PAHADI WEASEL MIDGET WIDGET LIMPET WIMPET ! THE DNA OF THIS BREED OF HINDOOS IS CAPTURED BY THE DISASTER OF A TUNNEL COLLAPSE JUST 3 WEEKS AGO,WHICH COLLAPSED TRAPPING 41 !
FOR 17 DAYS THE VANAR SENA OF CHAIWALA AND PAHADIS HAD NO CLUE - WHAT TO DO ?
THE PAHAHDI IS FIT TO FARM AND SMOKE GANJA !
AJIT DOVAL IS IN THAT CLASS ! A PANOO THULLA IPS OFFICER ! WHAT DOES THIS CLOWN KNOW OF NATIONAL SECURITY !
THE HISTORY OF THESE PAHADI BABAS IS THAT AKBAR DROVE THEM OUT OF THE RAT HOLE OF RAJASTHAN - AND THEY RAN WITH THEIR GOLD AND THEIR WOMEN TO THE PAHADS OF UTTARAKHAND - IN THE HOPE THAT THE STALLIONS OF AKBAR WILL NOT LAST IN THE PAHADS !
AND THEY WERE RIGHT !
PAHADI BABA SAYS THAT HE IS A KSHATRIYA ! AMBEDKAR SAYS PARASHOORAM KILLED ALL THE KSHATRIYAS AND THEN WHAT WAS LEFT WAS KILLED BY DHANANNANDA ! SO AMBEDKAR SAYS - "FROM WHENCE AND WHERE COME THESE KSHATRIYAS" ?
THE ANSWER LIES HERE !
SECTION LXIV – Mahbharata - Adivansavatarana Parva
The son of Jamadagni (Parasurama), after twenty-one times making the earth bereft of Kshatriyas wended to that best of mountains Mahendra and there began his ascetic penances.
And at that time when the earth was bereft of Kshatriyas, the Kshatriya ladies, “desirous of offspring”, used to come, O monarch, to the Brahmanas and Brahmanas of rigid vows had connection with them during the womanly season alone, but never, O king, lustfully and out of season.
And Kshatriya ladies by “thousands conceived from such connection” with Brahmanas.
"LADIES BY THE THOUSANDS CONCEIVED",FROM "SUCH CONNECTION",WITH "BRAHAMANAS"
THE PHYSICAL WIMPET IMPOTENT BODY OF BRAHMANAS + THE DEVIOUSNESS OF THE BRAHMINS
FUSED WITH THE
COWARDLY,TREACHEROUS,WIMPET BODY OF THE KSHTRIYA WOMAN
=== MODERN KSHATRIYA OF THE ILK OF AJIT DOVAL ! AND THE LIMPET RAJPUTS,JATS..... MARTIAL RACES !
DOES THE THE PATHETIC HINDOO MARTIAL HISTORY AND THE RAPE AND PILLAGE OF HINDOOSTHAN,MAKE SENSE NOW ? IT IS ALL THE DNA OF THE KSHATRIYA !
THE GRAVEYARDS OF A NATION,ARE IN ITS HISTORY ! dindooohindoo
#US Senate To Hold Hearings on #India’s #Sikh Murder Plot. “We are witnessing an alarming rise in transnational repression globally, where governments are dispatching assassins and kidnappers or using international criminal networks to abduct, harass..”
https://thewire.in/world/pannun-plot-us-senate-foreign-relations-committee-hearing-transnational-repression
New Delhi: Hours after US federal prosecutors claimed that an Indian government official led the plot to kill an American Sikh citizen on that country’s soil, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair announced that he will hold a hearing next week to “examine the scope of global transnational repression and how the United States government can more effectively counter this pernicious threat”.
The US Department of Justice announced the unsealing of an indictment which alleged that an Indian government official plotted to assassinate a US citizen in New York City who is a vocal government critic and labelled as a terrorist by the Narendra Modi government. The identity of the target was revealed by the media as Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The plot was thwarted by US law enforcement agencies.
“We are witnessing an alarming rise in transnational repression globally, where governments are dispatching assassins and kidnappers or using international criminal networks to abduct, harass, intimidate, and harm dissidents, journalists, and other individuals – far beyond their borders,” said US Senator Ben Cardin (Democrat, Maryland) in a statement.
“The disturbing news of a foiled assassination plot against a U.S. citizen involving Indian government officials further underscores the importance of shedding light on efforts by governments to silence dissenters living abroad. Next week, I will be chairing a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that will examine the scope of global transnational repression and how the United States government can more effectively counter this pernicious threat.”
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee plays a major role in shaping the country’s foreign policy. The committee is responsible for overseeing US foreign aid programmes, arms sales and training for allies, and holding confirmation hearings for high-level positions in the Department of State.
IS ISLAM-OH-PHOBIA OF CHAIWALA WORKING IN INDIA >
5 STATES WENT TO THE POLLS LAST WEEK IN CHAI-STHAN !
CHAIWALA CLAINS HE WON 3 STATES !
NEIN !!
IN BANIA RAJASTHAN BJP VOTE SHARE 41.6%, CONGRESS 39.5%,NOTA 1% & BSP IS 2%
TAKE OUT THE BSP & SHIFT THE BSP TO CONGRESS & 60% OF BJP SEATS,WILL FLIP !
IN PANWARI MADHYA PRADESH, BJP VOTE SHARE IS 48.6% & CONGRESS IS 41%,NOTA IS 1% AND BSP IS 3.5% ! TAKE OUT THE BSP & SHIFT THE BSP TO CONGRESS & 30% OF BJP SEATS,WILL FLIP !
IN CHATTISGARH, BJP VOTE SHARE IS 46% & CONGRESS IS 42%,NOTA IS 1% & BSP IS 2 % !
TAKE OUT THE BSP & SHIFT THE BSP TO CONGRESS & 30% OF BJP SEATS,WILL FLIP !
SO,IF BSP TIED WITH CONG, BJP WOULD HAVE LOST 2 MORE STATES - 100% ! BSP IS DALIT VOTE,WHICH IS TRANSFERABLE EASILY TO CONGRESS !
IN TELENGANA, CONG IS 40% & CHAIWALA IS 18% ! MESSAGE IS - SOUTH IS NOT DRINKING GAU MUTRAM
ELECTORAL MATHS IS CLEAR,& WILL MAKE CONGRESS REALISTIC ! IF IT TIES WITH BSP IN THE NORTH,BJP WILL BE WIPED OUT,BUT IN UP !
SOUTH INDIA IS DEAD ZONE FOR BJP, BUT TO COUNTER THE RAM TEMPLE EFFECT, CONGRESS SHOULD COMPROMISE IN THE SOUTH ! dindooohindoo
CHAIWALA WILL START FREE TRAINS & FREE HOTELS & FREE FOOD FOR AYODHYA SOON!
IT IS AN EASY GAME FOR CONGRESS !
BUT WHAT IS THE BET THAT THEERE WILL BE A FALSE FLAG ATTACK IN AYODHYA BEFORE THE POLLS ?
As #US fingers #India's #Intelligence Agency in #Sikh assassinations, #RAW is forced to cease operations in North America fir the first time since inception in 1968. Agents withdrawn from #UK too. #Modi #Doval #Canada #Pakistan https://theprint.in/diplomacy/top-officers-expelled-after-nijjar-killing-raw-downs-shutters-in-north-america-for-1st-time/1866238/
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London: Two senior Research and Analysis Wing officers were asked to leave their stations in major Western cities earlier this summer, ahead of a decision by United States prosecutors to initiate criminal charges in the wake of the spy agency’s alleged role in an assassination campaign targeting pro-Khalistan activists, intelligence sources have told ThePrint.
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The officers were the head of the RAW station in San Francisco and the second-in-command of its operations in London, the sources said. These are mutually disclosed positions and are not undercover.
The officers are of senior and mid-senior levels in the Indian Police Service (IPS). ThePrint is withholding their names as both remain in service with RAW.
In addition, the Government of India was denied permission to post an officer to replace RAW’s station chief in Washington, DC, who returned home earlier this year. The new officer, in line with long-standing RAW convention, was to have taken charge before the scheduled retirement of the organisation’s former chief, Samant Goel, on 30 June.
The shuttering of RAW’s stations in San Francisco and Washington DC, coming on the back of the publicly-declared expulsion of its station chief in Ottawa, Pavan Rai, has left the organisation unrepresented in North America for the first time since it was founded during the tenure of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968.
Government sources pushed back against claims that the removal of the three officers was driven by Western pressure. Instead, they attributed them to a series of “unfortunate coincidences of personal, family and administrative issues”.
“The third case, the long pause in assigning someone to Washington, is simply due to administrative factors,” one RAW officer said, adding that it “will be addressed soon”.
The murder ‘plot’ itself, the officer insisted, did not involve RAW and while the inquiry will show if any or some individuals acted “on an unauthorised basis”, the organisation can’t be blamed.
Prosecutors in the United States have claimed that ethnic-Punjabi alleged drug dealer Nikhil Gupta was offered up to $150,000 by an individual claiming to work for the Indian intelligence services to arrange the murder of an unnamed Khalistan lawyer and activist.
Though the indictment does not name the purported victim or the Indian intelligence service, government sources have told ThePrint that US officials told interlocutors in New Delhi that RAW conspired to assassinate top Khalistan activist and lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
Following the gangland-style killing of alleged Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, The Washington Post revealed Wednesday that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns had met with their counterparts in India earlier this year to demand accountability in the case.
The expulsion of the RAW officer in San Francisco, Indian government sources said, was intended to underline their message that the US would not cooperate with Indian intelligence if the agency continued offensive operations in the West, an Indian intelligence officer familiar with the case said.
Even though national security officials in the UK gave no reasons for asking for the removal of the RAW officer from London, a second officer noted, the action seemed to be of a symbolic nature, since it targeted the junior of two so-called “disclosed” positions at the High Commission of India in the city, whose status as intelligence officers is known to the host government.
Why India Is Targeting Sikhs At Home and Around the World | TIME
https://time.com/6342873/india-sikhs-persecution/
By Simran Jeet Singh and Gunisha Kaur
India began its nation-building project, bringing the immense challenge of forging a common identity among large and religiously, linguistically, and culturally diverse populations. What a majority of the total population shared, though, was a Hindu identity, and this religion became the center around which political leaders decided to coalesce Indian national identity, much to the dismay of India’s minority populations.
Indian leadership came to see religious minorities as a threat to their nation-building project, viewing Sikhs with particular suspicion and disdain, recognizing they catalyzed anti-colonial efforts and played a leading role in them. They were also aware that Sikhs still had recent memories of political autonomy in Punjab. Indian elites worried about Punjab becoming a majority Sikh state that would gain in political power and threaten the stability of young India. This led Indian leadership to deny Punjab and its Sikhs consequential rights that were afforded to other states, including official language status for Punjabi and its own state capital. India also weakened Punjab’s political power by carving out territory from it for other states, such as Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Moreover, contravening riparian law, an international norm, India diverted Punjab’s river waters to other states and regions, a massive economic blow to the state long-known as the breadbasket of India, and a threat to the livelihood of Punjab’s agrarian society.
Punjabi Sikhs soon began agitating against the Indian government, protesting the erosion of its cultural, economic, and political rights. In 1978, Sikh leadership drafted the Anandpur Sahib Resolution, which laid out a list of demands to safeguard the rights of Sikhs in Punjab and other minorities around India.
A charismatic Sikh leader from a religious seminary emerged during this period, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, whose ascent caught the eye of the Indian government. Bhindranwale spoke adamantly against the infringements of the Indian state, which by this stage had escalated to include gross human rights violations. He called on Sikhs and minorities everywhere to stand up against oppression. Citing him as an anti-national who threatened India’s stability, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched a military assault against him and his followers at the Golden Temple of Amritsar—the most significant site for Sikhs—on a major religious holiday. Bhindranwale was killed in the assault, along with thousands of other Sikh pilgrims who were worshipping there.
The global Sikh community was furious about the government’s attack and demanded justice. In this moment, the movement for a separate Sikh homeland was reborn. Bhindranwale had stated openly that he neither supported nor rejected the idea of Khalistan – but that if the Indian government ever invaded the Golden Temple complex, the foundation for an independent Sikh homeland would be laid.
Later that year, Ms. Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, presumably to avenge her assault on the Golden Temple. In the days that followed, the ruling Congress Party, utilizing state agencies and infrastructure, organized violent anti-Sikh pogroms across North India, focused primarily on the Indian capital of New Delhi. The pogroms left thousands of Sikhs dead, thousands more displaced, and all Sikhs wondering if they could ever have a home in India.
Why India Is Targeting Sikhs At Home and Around the World | TIME
https://time.com/6342873/india-sikhs-persecution/
By Simran Jeet Singh and Gunisha Kaur
Bhindranwale’s prediction came true. The anti-Sikh violence of 1984 made many Sikhs feel like the pattern of abuses under Indian leadership would not end, and it fueled a new movement for Sikh self-determination. In July of 1984, Sikhs gathered in Madison Garden in New York City and announced their commitment “to support the struggle of Sikhs in the Punjab for self-determination and the preservation of their distinct and religious identity.” Less than two years later, thousands of Sikhs gathered at the Golden Temple in their political tradition of Sarbat Khalsa and announced a resolution to recognize Khalistan.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Punjab was enmeshed in a violent struggle. A segment of the Sikh population took up armed resistance, with the aim of winning an independent Sikh state, free from the tyranny of India. This period of insurgency is often what westerners mean when they are referring to the Khalistan Movement.
While India accused militants of targeting politicians and civilians, Indian security forces employed widespread and systematic abuses for over a decade, including torture, murder, and enforced disappearances, targeting anyone it suspected of being involved in the insurgency or political movement for self-determination. In the years since, human rights defenders and researchers have uncovered the extent of India’s atrocity crimes. In 1995, human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra released official records demonstrating Punjab Police had abducted, killed and secretly cremated thousands of Punjabi Sikhs. Punjab Police subsequently abducted, tortured, and killed Khalra for refusing to retract his findings. In 2017, new evidence demonstrated more than 8,000 additional extra-judicial killings, bringing total estimates to 25,000.
Although the violent conflict subsided by the mid-1990s, the culture of impunity for gross human rights violations and extra-judicial violence continues to grip Punjab. None of the chief architects of the crimes against humanity have been brought to account, nor have survivors and their communities been given reparations. Moreover, the government continues to use the specter of terrorism to target its critics, and the central issue of the denuding of Punjab’s river waters serves as a continuing flashpoint.
This tension was evident over the last couple of years, when India attacked Sikhs during the 2022 Farmers Protests by calling the protestors “Khalistanis and “Anti-nationals.” The accusations fell on deaf ears, with global recognition that Sikhs and others were organizing to protect their agrarian livelihoods. The government used these same tactics this past spring during their manhunt for Sikh leader Amritpal Singh—again, using the threat of national security to violate human rights, targeting journalists and community organizers in dragnet operations. Sikhs have become desensitized to these spurious accusations, well accustomed to the cynical nationalist playbook: demonize minorities to galvanize the Hindu majority. That this strategy is being deployed in the midst of an election year is no coincidence. Modi and his BJP regime have used this program diligently for two decades.
And yet, the Indian government’s alleged attempts to kill foreign nationals on foreign soil indicate a shifting approach. Modi’s India is now willing to engage transnational repression and murder of his critics, joining the ranks of China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia with these practices.
The article was quite amusing. It would seem second and third generation Sikhs settled in the West are more aware of Indian government's supposed "repression" of Sikhs that Sikhs settled in Indian Punjab themselves seem altogether clueless about. Whatever they have written in that article is far removed from the ground reality one sees here. Sikhs are living peacefully in Indian Punjab, which remains a Sikh-majority state with its government and police forces dominated by Sikhs. Sikhs serve in disproportionately large numbers in the Indian military, especially its Army as part of the Sikh regiment and the Sikh Light Infantry. So far, two Sikhs have served as chiefs of Indian Army, and three as chiefs of Indian Air Force with many more waiting in line. If the Sikhs were against Indian rule, why would they serve in such large numbers in Indian armed forces? Why isn't there an insurgency in Indian Punjab? With such a large number of Sikhs serving in the Indian military from foot soldiers to Generals and Air Marshals, shouldn't Indian government feel concerned about the prospect of a mass uprising if there were strong separatist sympathies among Indian Sikhs?
The greatest social and law-and-order problem that Indian Punjab faces isn't any "anti-Sikh repression" or separatism, but that of drug abuse (a lot of that smuggled in from Pakistan). A pro-Khalistani constituency is either too small or non-existent in Indian Punjab. Aside from the Akali Dal which is largely a Sikh religious party (and allied to BJP until recently), Indian Punjab elects secular Indian parties like the Congress or AAP. In contrast to Kashmir where there may be legitimate resentment against Indian rule, one does not hear calls for any "Sikh referendum" or "Sikh self-determination" or "Sikh sovereignty" here in Indian Punjab.
If pro-Khalistani Sikhs settled in Canada, US or UK wants to do a Sikh referendum over there, I say let them go ahead and do it. If they want a Khalistan, let them create one in the territory of Canada. Indian govt should ignore them as long as they do not cause law-and-order problems back here in Indian Punjab.
Dr. Audrey Truschke
@AudreyTruschke
Disinfo Labs — a group that promotes far-right Hindutva conspiracy theories against critics of the Modi government — is an Indian intelligence operation, WaPo reports.
Some thoughts on why this matters —
https://x.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1734210988625305897?s=20
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EU DisinfoLab
@DisinfoEU
Many of you read
@wapo
’s investigation and we want to reiterate that there's no association between us and 'The DisinfoLab', an Indian entity.
@gerryshih
revealed their connections to Indian Intelligence and a deliberate use of our name to leverage our established credibility.
https://x.com/DisinfoEU/status/1734220723764236601?s=20
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Covert Indian operation seeks to discredit Modi’s critics in the U.S. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/10/india-the-disinfo-lab-discredit-critics/
The Disinfo Lab, which at one point consisted of about a dozen private contractors working out of a four-story whitewashed building on a leafy street in New Delhi, was created in mid-2020 by Lt. Col. Dibya Satpathy, now 39, an intelligence officer who has worked to shape international perceptions of India, said the three people familiar with the operation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence activities.
Satpathy was initially commissioned as an infantry officer and served in the army’s intelligence and public information units, said a person briefed on his military personnel record. That person and another source close to the military said Satpathy was later detailed to his current posting with India’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Over the years, Satpathy has introduced himself to Western journalists and commentators under fake identities — including his preferred alias, Shakti, meaning “power” in Hindi — and sought favorable coverage of India or critical coverage of its adversaries, Pakistan and China, according to five additional people who have had contact with Satpathy.
AS I SAID ON May 27, 2023 at 10:51 PM,ON https://www.riazhaq.com/2023/05/g20-kashmir-meeting-modis-pr-ploy.html
"CHAIWALA HAS PLACED IT IN THE LOK SABHA ! DOOM WILL STRIKE CHAIWALA AND HINDOOSTHAN SOON !
JIYE JIYE PAKISTAN !"
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IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS,THE PREMONITION OF DISASTER STRUCK !
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INDIANS - ONLY FIT TO MAKE TOILETS ! NOT A PARLIAMENT !
AND INDIANS DO NOT HAVE THE BRAINS TO PROVIDE SECURITY ! ONLY FIT TO CLEAN TOILETS !
ALL AFTER THE SENGOL !
US Blocks $3-Billion Drone Sale to India Until ‘Meaningful Investigation’ of Pannun Assassination Conspiracy
https://thewire.in/security/us-drone-sale-sky-guardian-pannu-killing-investigation
New Delhi: The US government has held back delivery of 31 MQ-9A Sea Guardian and Sky Guardian drones to India until New Delhi carries out a “meaningful investigation” into the conspiracy to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, The Wire has learned.
Pannun, who hold dual US and Canadian citizenship, is a New York-based Khalistan activist accused by India of terrorism.
The proposed $3 billion purchase includes 15 Sea Guardian drones for the Indian Navy, while the Indian Air Force and Army are supposed to get eight Sky Guardian drones each.
Also held back by Washington are smaller Indian acquisitions, including a proposal to buy six Boeing P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft. These are to supplement 12 P-8I Poseidon aircraft that the Indian Navy already operates.
Ironically, the Indian Ministry of Defence’s internal approval for the now-stalled drone procurement came in June 2023, a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington. This was also the time when the conspiracy to kill Pannun – allegedly set in motion by an Indian security official named CC1, according to a federal indictment made public last November – shifted to high gear.
Today, “the purchase is stuck in the US Congress because of anger over the brazen attempt to assassinate Pannun. US representatives have frozen the legislative movement needed for proceeding with the sale,” a highly-placed source in Washington told this reporter. The source, who operates at the top layer of US policymaking, cannot be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Explaining the delay in delivering these lethal, long-range weapons to India, the Washington-based source says that Indian-American lawmakers in particular are deeply concerned about the fallout from the indictment of an Indian named Nikhil Gupta. He has been formally charged with conspiring to kill Pannun, and is currently in detention in the Czech Republic pending his deportation to the US.
In a joint statement on the Pannun plot last December, five US Congress members of Indian origin – who received a classified briefing from the Biden administration on the federal indictment – said that it is critical for India to “fully investigate [and] hold those responsible, including Indian government officials, accountable, and provide assurances that this will not happen again”.
US federal prosecutors allege that Gupta had promised $100,000 to an FBI agent posing as a hitman to kill Pannun in New York. Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic on June 30 at America’s request.
On November 29, US federal prosecutors charged Gupta with murder-for-hire, which carries up to 10 years in prison; and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, which has a maximum sentence of a 10-year jail term.
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