Pakistani covert agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has floated a political outfit styled as Pakistani Nazriyati Party (PNP) to fuel Khalistan agenda and ramp up support domestically besides boosting the activities of Khalistani separatist groups like banned Sikhs for Justice.

Shaheer Haider Malik Sialvi is the president of the PNP who is closely connected to Pakistani terror groups Lashkar-e-Tayabba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and is also the chairman of the youth parliament of that country. Sialvi also has the backing of ISI, sources said.

The US-based Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) is also an ISI project to enlist global support for secessionist Khalistani agenda.

The SFJ has been banned by the Union Home Ministry under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and is embroiled in a number of terror cases being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The PNP has clearly articulated its stand to back secessionist agenda of the Pakistani Sikhs and those linked to the SFJ. It has also sought to capitalize on the social faultlines of the farmers’ unrest over the now scrapped farm laws. The PNP will also liaise with Sikh terrorist groups like SFJ and Khalistan Zindabad Force among others, the sources tracking the development further said.

The Pakistani politico-military combine’s renewed bid to revive the Khalistani movement comes in the backdrop of setbacks to the terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir being fuelled from across the border. The security forces operating on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir have neutralized a number of terror commanders as well as a number of cadres, adversely affecting the recruitment drive of the terrorist groups.

During the last two years, the ISI has been using drones to drop arms, ammunition and narcotics along the frontiers in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to create disturbances and generate revenues through narcotics supplies to fund terrorist activities in these two bordering State/Union Territory.