The National Investigation Agency has found credible information which confirms that Babbar Khalsa International, which incidentally is the prime suspect behind the attack on Lt. Gen. K.S. Brar in London a week ago, continues to get “active support” from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, which is helping the outfit to send funds into India to revive militancy in Punjab.
NIA investigations have found that these funds are being sent primarily through Britain, Thailand and Malaysia using the ISI’s hawala network, which is active in these countries.
The National Investigati-on Agency had registered a case against the BKI in August this year following a tipoff that the terror outfit had once again activated its funding network to send money to its cadre in India.
NIA sources confirmed that BKI still has a large network of sleeper cells across Punjab. These sleeper cells could not be activated over the past few years as the terror group did not have funds. But now, the sources added, the BKI’s two top leaders, Wadhwa Singh and Mehal Singh, were making a “determined effort” to revive the 1980s-style militancy in Punjab.
Both Wadhwa Singh and Mehal Singh were believed to be in Pakistan recently, are also learnt to have made some trips to Germany, where too the BKI is said to have a large network of sympathisers, in order to raise funds for the organisation. Intelligence officials have told the NIA that in Pakistan Wadhwa Singh and Mehal Singh had regular meetings with top ISI officials, who have pledged full support to them.