After running away from the motorcycle fled from the motorcycle. (symbolic)
Lahore/Chandigarh :
Islamabadi terrorist Paramjit Singh Panjawar was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province. This information was provided by the police Panjwar (63) was leading the banned Khalistan Commando Force-Panjwar group and India had declared him a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in July 2020. “The gunmen shot Panjwar in the head and he was declared brought dead on arrival at the hospital in Mexico,” said a senior Punjab provincial police official. He told that his security personnel were also injured in the shooting and later he succumbed to his injuries.
Officials said that Panjawar was walking with his security guard in the park of Sun Flower Housing Society located in Johar Town. Officials said that Panjwar lived in the Sun Flow Housing Society. During this, the two assailants drugged both of them and took the motorcycle for the same from a motorcycle, the official said.
Pakistan’s intelligence bases including ISI, Military Intelligence (MIC) and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have cordoned off the area and started investigation. Media is not allowed to visit the crime scene. This murder is the latest example of gangsters being targeted outside India.
In February this year, Bashir Ahmed Peer, the self-styled commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In the same month, Pakistan claimed that Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of the Al-Badr organization, was killed in a similar manner outside his residence in Karachi, while Kashmir-born terrorists Ejaz Ahmed Ahangar and Abu Usman al-Kashmiri were reportedly killed in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. was reportedly killed in February. He had joined the Islamic State (IS).
Regarding the fatal attack on Panjwar on Saturday, an eyewitness told the prospects of the CTD investigation that Panjwar was in the park along with his security guard at around 6 am on Saturday when a gunman came close to him and started firing. “After the firing, the bomber fled towards the gate of the society and was deafened with his accomplice waiting for him outside,” he added.
A source in the CTD said that after recording the statements of several people of the housing society, it was revealed that the attackers had ‘reconnaissed’ the probable location for a week. “We have got a vital lead about the killers and some teams of undercover sleuths have been formed to nab the attackers and the network behind it,” he said. Sources said the Punjab state police has asked them to let the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) lead the investigation. Sources in the Lahore police said that the surrounding bases have been cordoned off and the police have been told not to file an FIR till they meet the ISI. When asked about the incident, police spokesman Lahore Sheikh Ali said, “I cannot comment on this matter.”
Panjwar had joined KCF in 1986. Later he became the head of the organization and went to Pakistan. In 1986, the KCF was being led by Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha Shapit, who was then stationed as a police constable in Punjab, India. Sukha was killed in an initial encounter with the police in 1989 at Tanda in Intelligencepur, Punjab, and thereafter Kanwarjit Singh of Sultanvind, Amritsar, became the chief of the KCF while Paramjit Singh Panjwar became his deputy chief.
According to official sources, after the death of Kanwarjit Singh Sultanwind, Panjwar became the head of the KCF. According to official sources, before his migration to Pakistan in 1995-96, Panjwar was involved in several murders in Punjab. However, Panjwar was inactive for the past few years but was operating from Lahore and was involved in arranging arms training for youths in Pakistan. It supplies arms and ammunition to targets autonomously and economically in India and was later infiltrated.
India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, which declared Panjwar a terrorist under the UAPA, said in a notification that he was also involved in the broadcast of highly seditious and assured programs on Radio Pakistan aimed at inciting minorities against the Indian government. He was reportedly active in the smuggling of psychotropic substances and was a key link between the smugglers and the reviewers.
The ministry had said, “The involvement of Panjwar in promoting Fake Indian Currency Note operation and trade in synthetic substances in Punjab is well documented. Efforts are being made by KCF to reactivate former registrars, sleeper cells and people released on bail and it is in favor of collusion with anti-India forces.
accused of involvement in several attacks
The KCF came into existence in February 1986 and used to carry out bank robberies and kidnapping for ransom to procure modern weapons for terrorist activities. According to the ministry, the Paramjit Singh Panjawar-led banned outfit was involved in various terrorist attacks in India, including the Ferozepur bombing in October 1988 that killed 10 Rai Sikhs. The organization was also involved in the assassination of Major General BN Kumar as well. Sources said that Panjwar was also behind several IED blasts in Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab. His wife was living in Germany with two sons and passed away in September 2022.
pakistan national identity card
Panjwar ventured into real estate and heroin smuggling business after 2010. He had made a national identity card of Pakistan in the name of Gulzar Singh. The ISI had planned to reactivate Panjawar using his old connections in Punjab to revive militancy. He said that during militancy in Punjab, Panjwar borders had a large number of contacts, especially in Amritsar and Tarn Taran. He also had links with critical material smugglers and arms smugglers from Pakistan, they said.
Raza was also shot like this
According to Pakistan media reports, Hizbul commanders Peer-u-Imtiaz Alam and Raza were also shot dead by the assailants in the same manner as Panjawar. Raza reportedly served as the ‘Commander’ of Al Badr in Jammu and Kashmir for eight years. Intelligence officials said here that Peer, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, was living in Pakistan for more than 15 years. Intelligence officials said Peer had participated in several online propaganda campaigns to rally ex-terrorists and other affiliated associates to expand the activities of Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other terrorist outfits.
was involved in recruiting
Ahangar, a Kashmir-born terrorist, was one of the key recruits of the Islamic State J-K (ISJK) and has been declared a terrorist by India under the UAPA. The Home Ministry had said that he was a terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir for more than two decades and was “working towards promoting terrorism in Kashmir”. He was made the head of the Islamic State’s (IS) recruitment unit for India and was instrumental in launching an online propaganda magazine from India – Offer ISIS.
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