The actuality of Khalsa Aid – the so-called humanitarian NGO “helping” farmers throughout the protest

Khalsa Aid International is hailed by many around the globe as an unparalleled organisation, facilitating humanitarian support in components of the world the place no different organisation dares to enter. It has been extending its wholehearted assist to the continued misinformed farmers’ protests in India too. At the borders of Delhi, farmers from Punjab and Haryana proceed to blockade essential roads, and Khalsa Aid International (KIA) is overtly supporting the agitation by making many luxuries accessible for the farmers. From foot massagers to movable washrooms and bathrooms, and day by day requirements to fogging fireplace extinguishers – Khalsa Aid is making certain that the farmers have been in a position to arrange total townships on roads resulting in Delhi.However, little is it recognized that your entire organisation based mostly out of the United Kingdom is a grand fraud. In truth, Khalsa Aid was additionally a topic of India’s National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) probe as much as 2015-2016. The case, which was registered in 2012, discovered that Khalsa Aid was appearing as a entrance organisation for the phobia organisation Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), and was concerned in funnelling cash into India for BKI operatives each on the free and in jails, other than additionally offering for his or her households. The NIA additionally discovered that Babbar Khalsa and its entrance organisation – Khalsa Aid amongst others have been actively being supported by Pakistan. The NIA’s abstract of allegations said, “On the allegation that Punjab based BKI operatives are receiving money from UK based BKI operatives (viz. Balbir Singh Bains, Joga Singh) and its front organizations, including but not limited to, Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare (SoPW), AkhandKirtaneeJattha (AKJ) and Khalsa Aid, to commit terrorist acts in India, with the active support of Pakistan based BKI leaders (Wadhwa Singh, Jagtar Singh Tara).” Further, the Intelligence advised that the cash is being distributed to sleeper cells, jailed terrorists and the households of the terrorists in Punjab.The NIA investigation, nevertheless, bought stonewalled attributable to minimal cooperation by the United Kingdom. UK authorities did not cooperate with their Indian counterparts on the premise of BKI operatives like Bains and Joga Singh would face the loss of life penalty in India in the event that they have been to be extradited. As such, not a lot progress may very well be made into the investigation of Khalsa Aid as properly. Read extra: How and why the UK grew to become the breeding floor of Khalistani terroristsInterestingly, whereas the NIA’s abstract of the case mentions Khalsa Aid as simply that, presently, the “humanitarian organisation” has come to be recognized by the identify of ‘Khalsa Aid International’, elevating doubts concerning the UK-based entity altering its identify to evade investigations in India, and different nations too, maybe for its fraudulent manoeuvrings. To justify the name-change, Khalsa Aid International said on its web site, “All assets and operations of Khalsa Aid have now been transferred to Khalsa Aid International; the charity Khalsa Aid is currently in the process of being closed.”Meanwhile, a report within the Punjabi Tribune has revealed that Khalsa Aid International, on the premise of amassing funds and donations for humanitarian work the world over, is forwarding solely a minuscule portion of the collections in direction of really serving to these in want. With an enormous portion of the collections not reaching the meant beneficiaries, it has been alleged that the organisation’s CEO Ravi Singh is spending a lot of the quantity on himself. The identical was revealed by Ajmer Singh Randhawa on a private weblog, which went to nice lengths to show the Khalsa Aid poster boy as an exploitative criminal. Randhawa additionally revealed that towards collections of Rs 7 crore on the disposal of KAI, solely Rs 35 lakhs have been spent on serving to the households of “Sikh Dharmi Fauzis and martyrs.”It is broadly believed and has additionally been publicised by many who worldwide organisation has been finishing up humanitarian work in war-torn Syria. However, the organisation itself admitted that it has no operations in Syria. The Wikipedia web page of Khalsa Aid International additionally claims that the organisation has labored in Syria, though it was compelled to confess that it by no means set a foot within the West Asian nation. Additionally, whereas Khalsa Aid claims to have labored in Kerala throughout the floods and in Bangladesh as properly, monetary particulars of the organisation haven’t any point out of any charitable work in such locations. The founder and CEO of Khalsa Aid International – Ravi Singh is a vile Khalistani and a Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale supporter is in itself a purpose sufficient for the organisation to be banned in India. Already, the NIA has discovered Khalsa Aid to be a entrance organisation of Babbar Khalsa International. Complemented with the truth that the organisation additionally has many monetary discrepancies to account for, it should be outlawed in India.