Delhi-based Daljit Kalsi is a link between Amritpal and Pakistan
West Punjabi Bagh resident Kalsi is a key aide and advisor of so-called Waris De Punjab (WPD) head Amritpal Singh and is currently under detention of the Punjab Police.
The Pakistani connection between absconding Sikh extremist Amritpal Singh and his key arrested aide Punjabi Bagh resident Daljit Singh Kalsi has been established with the latter seen submitting a memorandum against India to the Consul General of Pakistan in the Sikh separatist hub of Vancouver in Canada.
Sikh extremist Daljit Kalsi outside the Pakistan Consulate General in Vancouver in Canada. (HT photo)
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Sikh extremist Daljit Kalsi with Amritpal Singh
Daljit Singh Kalsi has been detained under Section 3 (2) of the National Security Act and is a key aide cum advisor of Amritpal Singh, foisted leader of the so-called Waris De Punjab movement, and has accompanied the Khalistan extremist in his public appearances after the Amritpal arrived in India on August 20, 2022.
Kalsi, a resident of West Punjabi Bagh, is said to be an actor and a writer, is behind the suspicious anointment of Amritpal as “Mukh Sevadar” of the so-called Waris De Punjab Movement after the death of Sandeep Singh alias Deep Sidhu in an accident on February 15, 2022.
Sikh extremist Daljit Kalsi with Khalistani members
According to security and intelligence inputs, Kalsi, who was part of the conspiracy to vandalize Ajnala police station on February 23, 2023, has been in active liaison with the Pakistani establishment via its Consulate General in Vancouver and via Dubai.
It is quite evident to the Indian national security planners that Sikh extremism is being funded in Canada and UK with their national security establishments turning a blind eye to Indian security concerns.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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