Is the threat to blow up 90 planes in 7 days a 'blatant threat'?
Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the head of the banned terrorist organization Sikh for Justice in india, has threatened to blow up an air india flight. He has released a video saying that he will take revenge for the 1984 Sikh riots and for this he will bomb an air india plane. Now, this can be called a terrorist's threat. And it is so because whether Gurpatwant Singh Pannu threatens or not, India's security agencies are very alert on this issue. A story from history suggests that this threat by Gurpatwant Singh Pannu should be taken a little seriously, because in history, air India's plane Kanishka was targeted by such Khalistani terrorists, in which 329 people died in the bomb blast.
After Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was killed in Operation Blue Star, it seemed that Khalistan would disappear from india and especially from Punjab, but this did not happen. After Bhindranwale's death and then Indira Gandhi's assassination, another Khalistani organization Babbar Khalsa started fighting for Khalistan. Babbar Khalsa started demanding a separate Khalistan from canada, Germany, britain and some parts of India. The leader of Babbar Khalsa in canada was a Khalistani terrorist, Talwinder Singh Parmar, who had fled to canada after killing policemen in India. He had announced that now Khalistan will start targeting indian airplanes. About a year after this announcement, Khalistani terrorists targeted air India's plane Kanishka in Canada.
air india flight number 182 Kanishka, which was on its way to Montreal-London-Delhi-Bombay, was blown up by a bomb explosion in ireland on 23 june 1985. A total of 329 people on board were killed. Of these, 268 people were from canada, 27 were british and 24 were Indians. This blast was carried out by Khalistani terrorist Manjit Singh. He sent his luggage from Vancouver to Toronto flight on 22 june 1985 itself. On 23 june, the luggage was shifted to air india flight number 182 Kanishka going from Toronto to India. That flight was going to india from Toronto via London, but the flight could not even reach London. There was a blast in it and the debris of the flight fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Before the 9/11 blast in America, this terrorist attack was the world's biggest attack related to aviation.