India    19-May-2015

Jagtar Singh Tara head of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) who was involved in the killing of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995 disclosed that LeT trains and assist Khalistan militant. KTF is also assisted by LeT. KTF claimed responsibility and LeT was involved in October 12, 2011 Ambala (Haryana) RDX recovery inside an Indica car that meant to carry out a major blast in New Delhi on Diwali 2011. According to the interrogation report, Tara had held three meetings with LeT militant Asdullah Maulvi between 2012 and 2014 to deliver consignments of arms and RDX into Punjab. Maulvi is currently in Sialkot, Pakistan and is directly controlled by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The report also said that Tara had told LeT that he did not have enough foot soldiers in Punjab to carry out attacks. LeT had then offered to send both 'hardware' as well as fidayeen attackers. According to Tara as many as six LeT men were backing KTF.

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India    30-May-2015

Jagtar Singh Tara, the Sikh militant divulged that while he was based in Pakistan, he had sent to India with weapons and explosives, including three AK-47s, to kill Shiv Sena leaders in Gurdaspur in Punjab. Tara mentioned that he was in regular touch with militants in jails across Amritsar and Nabha and had sent the weapons in 2013. These revelations are part of a 20-page investigation report by the IB and Punjab Police and come about a month after Shiv Sena state secretary Harvinder Soni was shot at in Gurdaspur while playing volleyball on April 12, 2015. A jailed militant, Sukchain Singh Khurmania, lodged in Amritsar prison, in a conversation with Tara demanded timers, detonators, and pistols in September 2014.

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