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Pannun threatens to ‘blow up’ Indian Parliament
In a viral video, he said the attack will be carried out on December 13, the 22nd anniversary of the parliament attacks carried out in 2001
Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) released a video message, threatening to blow up the Indian parliament on December 13, the 22nd anniversary of the parliament attacks carried out in 2001.
Five members of Pakistani militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed broke into Parliament in a White Ambassador using Home Ministry stickers on December 13, 2001. They fired guns and used explosives in the premises, killing nine people. No parliamentarian was injured in the attack.
Pannun’s video was floated across social media platforms on December 5. As per media reports. it features a poster of the 2001 parliament attacks convict Afzal Guru with the caption Delhi Banega Khalistan (Delhi will turn into Khalistan).
“My response on December 13, 2023, will be in contrast to the 2001 resistance of Afzal Guru against the extrajudicial killings of Kashmiris. But it shall still shake the very foundations of the Indian Parliament. Delhi Banayga Khalistan,” Pannun was quoted as saying in the video. He issued the threat after the U.S. charged an Indian national with attempting to assassinate him on American soil with 'CC-1', an Indian government official.
The Delhi Police are on high alert after the threat video circulated online. “No one will be allowed to disturb law and order,” said a senior police official as per a report. Security has been amped up across the state of Delhi. “When Parliament is on, we remain alert. We are taking all precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident," the police officer added.
India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called the American indictment of Nikhil Gupta and a government official for murder-for-hire and conspiracy a "matter of concern." MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi at a recent media briefing said, “As regards the case against the individual that has been filed in a U.S. court, allegedly linking him to an Indian official, this is a matter of concern. We have said and let me reiterate, this is contrary to government policy.”
He added, “The nexus between organized crime, trafficking, gun running, extremists at an international level is a serious issue for law enforcement, agencies, and organizations to consider and it is precisely for that reason that a high-level inquiry committee has been constituted and we will obviously be guided by these results.”
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