Amritpal fuels Khalistan narrative among international entities

More than three weeks after escaping from Jalandhar, Khalistan backer Amritpal Singh Sandhu was seeking to achieve one of the objectives with which he was promoted by his ISI handlers-that of reviving the "Khalistani" narrative.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

Due to his swift rise and subsequent escape, policymakers based out of India, think tank experts and the international media are all now writing about how India was facing the prospect of the "revival of Khalistani separatism". Such an assessment was, however, totally disconnected from the truth on the ground, people in the security apparatus stated.

According to establishments in Delhi tracking these developments, much of the international media coverage in his case was pro-Amritpal despite him, among many other crimes, storming a police station to free one of his supporters who had assaulted a man.