Hijackers Leave Pakistan for US, Canada

AMRITSAR: Eleven of the 12 Punjab militants who hijacked two Indian aircraft in 1981 and 1984 to Lahore, have clandestinely moved to the US, Canada and other Western countries from Pakistan.

Many other militants from the State, sheltered in Pakistan for about 12 years, are also trying to sneak into and take political asylum in these Western nations, police said here, June 21.

Among the 12 hijackers, only Gajjinder Singh, Chief of the so-called Dal Khalsa International, is still in Pakistan, police said.

They claimed Gajjinder Singh had also made an abortive attempt to infiltrate some of these countries, and was deported from Germany, July 16 last year, they claimed.

Police said that earlier Singh had stayed at Bangkok for a week, when Kanwerpal Singh Bittu, a former Press Secretary of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) who had shifted his loyalty to him, was nabbed by the Interpol and was deported to India. (PTI)

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