Trump's adminsitration declares Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group a risk
Trump's adminsitration declares Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group a risk US President Donald Trump's adminsitration has declared the Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group a "risk to the US personnel and interests overseas". The National Strategy for Counterterrorism unveiled in Washington on Thursday said that Babbar Khalsa International "is responsible for significant terrorist attacks in India and elsewhere that have claimed the lives of innocent civilians". The US State and Treasury Departments had listed the Babbar Khalsa International and the International Sikh Youth Federation as terrorist organisations in 2002 and the LeT in 2001. The strategy document released by US National Security Adviser John Bolton takes a hard look at not only terrorists directly posing a threat to the US, but also at "separatist movements overseas whose use of violence and intent to destabilise societies". Babbar Khalsa International was founded by a Canadian citizen and was based in Vancouver. It has been linked to the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1981 that killed 329 people on the Emperor Kanishka, a Boeing 747 airliner. The strategy document added: "The terrorist threat to the US is growing more dynamic and diffuse as an increasing number of groups, networks, and individuals exploit global trends, including the emergence of more secure modes of communications, the expansion of social and mass media, and persistent instability across several regions." -PTC News
