Assassination Attempt: US Invokes ‘Red Line’; China Comments; Pannun Claims SFJ Paid AAP

India said the intelligence operatives who planned the 2023 assassination of Sikhs For Justice legal counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had gone ‘rogue’ (SDW Vol. 2 Issue 13, Story 1). US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti reprimanded India, stating, ‘Any country, having an active member of their government involved in a second country trying to assassinate one of their citizens. That's, I think, usually a red line for any country. That's a basic issue of sovereignty. That's a basic issue of rights.’ Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian also said, ‘China noted the reports. We hope relevant countries will earnestly observe international law and the basic norms governing international relations.’ India dismissed China’s remarks as ‘speculative comments and gratuitous advice’ by ‘unrelated third parties.’ Meanwhile, upon Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, Pannun alleged that AAP received $16M from Khalistani groups from 2014-2022. He claimed in 2014, Delhi CM Kejriwal proposed releasing Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in exchange for financial support. Bhullar has allegedly been involved in the 1993 Delhi Bomb Blast, which killed 9 people and injured 31 others. The Supreme Court of India confirmed Bhullar’s death sentence in a fractured and divided decision, and later commuted the sentence to life in prison on 31 Mar 2014. Pannun’s claim on Diaspora Sikhs funding political parties is a half-truth; they had, up until 2014, funded all who visited Gurdwaras, including AAP, INC, and SAD.