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Officials say Amritpal Singh is promoting a fundamentalist form of Sikhism. (File photo: PTI)
He said the ISI launched Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh in India after training him in Sikhism and history. Before being launched from Dubai to India, he visited Georgia to learn and may have been educated there
Top intelligence sources told CNN-News18 on Wednesday that Pakistan’s ISI is increasingly making efforts to control Sikh shrines in Pakistan and the management of Sikh affairs in India.
In January, the Pakistan government appointed an ISI officer as the CEO of the Project Management Unit. Sources said that he was assigned the task of looking after Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur.
ISI launched Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh in India After training them in Sikhism and history, he added. Before being launched from Dubai to India, he visited Georgia to learn and may have been educated there.
Sources said the ISI wanted a cult figure in “flesh and blood” to stoke the fires of Khalistani separatism in Punjab.
He said the Pakistani agency was building a “brand and cult” around Amritpal and was also controlling his social media campaign.
Officials say Amritpal Singh is promoting a fundamentalist form of Sikhism. He and his followers ransacked a Gurdwara in Jalandhar by bringing sofas and chairs kept in the Gurdwara Durbar Hall for senior citizens.
Opposition parties have targeted the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab for not registering a case against Amritpal and his 40-50 followers despite a written complaint by the gurudwara management.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann recently said that “1,000 people” (followers of Amritpal Singh, who gheraoed the Ajnala police station to free a jailed fellow member of radical outfit Waris Punjab De) do not represent Punjab. Attempts to disturb peace in the state, saying they were financed by Pakistan
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