KHALISTAN EXTREMISM MONITOR
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
11-Apr-2001
Majitha Police arrested chief of the KCF, Wassan Singh Zaffarwal.
09-Apr-2001
The president of the Akali Dal (Amritsar), Simranjit Singh Mann, in Jalandhar, alleged that senior Punjab political leaders belonging to different parties had well-established links with terrorists. He also criticized the KCF chief, Wassan Singh Zaffarwal's reported move to surrender.
05-Apr-2001
Punjab Chief Minister, Prakash Singh Badal, addressing a press conference, in Chandigarh, said that the government was ready to open its door to militants willing to surrender. The Chief Minister stated this in reply to a question on reports in the press regarding the surrender proposals of the Chief of the KCF, Wassan Singh Zaffarwal, who is believed to have arrived from Switzerland.
04-Apr-2001
Punjab Police sources said, a Kashmiri terrorist arrested earlier in Gurdaspur, on April 1, has confessed to links with a police officer and a local politician. The arrested terrorist, a former student of Jammu University, also disclosed that a hotel room in the Gurdaspur used as a control room by Pakistan’s ISI. As reported earlier, four Kashmiri terrorists associated with the BKI were arrested from Harchuwala in Gurdaspur, where they were planning an attack during the Ramnavami, a Hindu religious event, celebrations of April 2 in Batala town.
04-Apr-2001
Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal said that, "No one has approached me concerning the surrender of Wassan Singh Zaffarwal. I am not aware of anything in this connection. I have just read in the newspapers that Zaffarwal wanted to surrender". It was reported that Wassan Singh Zaffarwal, Chief of the KCF (Zaffarwal), who was staying in Switzerland until recently, has come to India intending to surrender before the Punjab police.
02-Apr-2001
Police arrested four BKI terrorists along with three kilograms of RDX and some arms and ammunition from Harchowal village in the Batala District.
23-Mar-2001
Punjab Police arrested a KCF (Zaffarwal) terrorist, a proclaimed offender evading arrest since October 1990, for his involvement in a terrorist case. According to the Police, a case had been registered against the terrorist under various sections of IPC, Arms Act and TADA, in October 1990.
10-Mar-2001
Bhatinda Police arrested a notorious criminal with terrorist connections and recovered a Chinese pistol and live cartridges from his possession. According to police sources, the arrested person had frequently crossed over to Pakistan to ferry arms and drugs for terrorists in Punjab.
02-Feb-2001
The Punjab police busted a narco-terrorist network operating from Jammu and Kashmir. According to official sources in Gurdaspur, Punjab, one person was arrested from village Banni Lodhi, bordering Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of narcotics, arms, and ammunition from Pakistan. The sources said that the arrested had developed a clandestine alliance with Pakistan-based Khalistani terrorist leaders Wadhwa Singh Babbar and Parmjit Singh Panjwar.
03-Jan-2001
Intelligence sources indicate that an activist of the BKI reportedly being a ‘human bomb’ armed with RDX and plastic explosives, is present in Delhi and aims to create disturbance during the January 26, Republic Day celebrations.
07-Nov-2000
Punjab Police arrested four persons, including two BKI activists, and recovered a large number of arms, ammunition, fake currency and heroin from them. The arrested persons are believed to be planning to perpetrate mass killings.
15-Oct-2000
Delhi Police arrested four persons and recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition from a city market in Azadpur. Police said that the cache was smuggled into India from Pakistan through the Western border and was being routed through the capital for final delivery at Jalandhar in Punjab. It is suspected that this cache, which includes small and automatic guns, ammunition, explosives, and other equipment, was to be used by the Babbar Khalsa group. Police have attributed this to Pakistan's efforts to revive the dormant terrorist movement in Punjab by some Khalistani outfits.
26-Jul-2000
A top smuggler, suspected to be an important member of the narco-terrorism network backed by Pakistan’s ISI was arrested in Jalandhar District. He is suspected to have earlier aided the escape of a top KCF leader, Rattandeep Singh, involved in a Chandigarh bomb blast, from India to Pakistan on July 12, 1999.
14-May-2000
Union Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the government was 'actively considering' releasing Punjab terrorists, now in prison but were not facing any serious charges for their pro-Khalistan views during militancy in Punjab. With militancy having ended in Punjab, the cases of those detained could be reviewed, Advani said.
07-May-2000
Kapurthala Police arrested four terrorists belonging to the KCF (Panjwar) group and recovered nine kg of RDX from them.
31-Mar-2000
According to Police and intelligence sources, efforts are on by some Khalistani militant outfits based in Pakistan, Germany the USA and Belgium to re-establish their contacts in India. The sources feel that the outfits, which include the Babbar Khalsa, the KCF and other militant outfits, are compelled to show some kind of activities in India to their sponsors, including the ISI of Pakistan, to sustain their funds and donations.
28-Mar-2000
Police arrested a KCF (Zaffarwal) terrorist, Raj Pal Singh along with a revolver and some ammunition from Gurdaspur in Punjab. Singh had been active from 1991 to 1994 and had made several trips to Pakistan to bring consignments of arms and ammunition. He was arrested while returning from Jammu after meeting his associates and other Jammu-based terrorists.
25-Mar-2000
Police claim to have solved the mystery surrounding a series of train and bus blasts in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Delhi with the arrest of three militants of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF).
14-Mar-2000
Two KCF terrorists, alleged to be working for Pakistan’s ISI, were arrested in Gurdaspur along with a revolver, explosives and trigger mechanisms. Official sources said that the two were on a mission to trigger explosions in buses and trains.
28-May-1999
A blast occurred between Rajpura and Shambu railway stations, resulting in the blowing up of a three-foot section of railway track.
16-Apr-1999
There was a bomb blast at the lower parapet of the outer wall of the telephone exchange in Katra Sher Singh, Amritsar.
30-Mar-1999
An explosion occurred in close proximity to the post office and telephone exchange in Sirhind.
25-Feb-1999
A bag containing RDX material was discovered near the bridge connecting Rajpura and Ambala railway stations.
12-Feb-1999
A bomb was recovered from the ventilator of a room at Laxmi Narain Ayurvedic College, located near Lohgarh Gate in Amritsar.
22-Jan-1999
An explosive device was planted at the park in Gobindgarh Bus Stand, located in Fatehgarh Sahib district.