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Punjab Police asks Malaysia to detain four Sikh militants | Punjab Police have warned Sikh militants not to use Malaysia as a base to launch terror strikes on India
or, to destabilise the October Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Malaysia’s New
Strait Times daily quoted Patiala ’s Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranbir Singh
Khatra, as saying: "They (militants) cannot 'remote-control' from Malaysia . We
are constantly gathering information on them. We are on our heels and constantly
alert all the time.” "(On our part) we will use diplomatic channels to detain
at least four suspected Sikh militants who are allegedly hiding in Malaysia .
We thank the Malaysian government. We respect Malaysia as a sovereign state and
so we need to channel our investigations through our ministry (of external affairs),”
he added. "We hope the Malaysian government will cooperate with us to fight terrorism,"
he said in an interview. Khatra was responding to media reports that the Malaysian
government had acknowledged that several Sikh militants, allegedly having links
with the once-lethal Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), could possibly be in the
country. Based on intelligence input, he revealed that three of the suspected
Sikh militants, Harminder Singh, 45, Daljit Singh and Harpreet Singh, both in
their 20s, all of whom are from Punjab, were believed to be still in hiding in
Malaysia. There are no details of the fourth suspect. To a question why the outlawed
terrorist outfit had chosen Malaysia as their base, Khatra replied: " Malaysia
and Thailand are international tourist places and they can enter these countries
freely. From there, they can easily move to Pakistan ." Indian security agencies
have been on high alert, following the arrest of Pargat Singh, a suspected KLF
militant and bomb-planting specialist, who had stayed in Malaysia for almost a
year, and the discovery of 15kg of RDX explosives from another Sikh militant last
month. Since the 1980s, the Sikh militant group has waged an armed struggle to
form a separate homeland for Sikhs in Punjab . But in the 1990s, the Punjab police
annihilated most of its top hardliner leaders, forcing the organisation to break
up into smaller groups and operate from foreign soil. |
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