Sikhs for Justice leader accuses India of involvement in Jaffar Express attack

Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun alleged in a statement on Thursday that India’s notorious intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was behind Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Jaffar Express in Balochistan’s Bolan district.

Over 400 passengers were taken hostage when militants attacked the Jaffar Express in Balochistan’s Bolan district, which was en route from Quetta to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) capital, Peshawar, on Tuesday.

Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, while speaking to a private media channel on Wednesday, announced the completion of the two-day-long rescue Green Bolan operation.

 
DG ISPR claimed that security forces eliminated all 33 Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) terrorists who had hijacked the Jaffar Express. He added that the army, air force, Frontier Corps (FC) and Special Services Group had taken part in the operation and recovered the hostages.

Urging international organisations to take action against India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and RAW, Pannun warned that if India was not held accountable, their next attack could take even more innocent lives. 

Emphasising that the Narendra Modi-led government is not just a regional threat but a full-fledged terrorist state, the SFJ leader said that the country is executing a secret war strategy against Pakistan.

Pannun claimed that the Balochistan train attack is evidence of India’s aggressive defense doctrine, adding that India seeks to destabilise neighboring countries through covert terrorist operations and is involved in the assassinations of opponents abroad, extremism, and cross-border terrorism.

He accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supremo Modi of turning India into a global hub for state-sponsored terrorism, noting that RAW's unchecked operations are endangering South Asia while setting dangerous global precedents for state violence.

He called on diplomatic and security sanctions on India’s intelligence apparatus, stressing that the world can no longer turn a blind eye to India’s covert terrorist activities. 

In September 2024, Canada had accused the Indian government involvement in the fatal shooting of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., on June 18.

Speaking at the House of Commons, the then Canadian Prime Minister (PM) Justin Trudeau said, “Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.”

Trudeau claimed that Canada’s national security apparatus has reason to believe that “agents of the Indian government” carried out the killing of this Canadian citizen, who also served as the president of Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara.