Canada’s Internal Security Collapse: ISI-Backed Khalistani Network Deepening Grip, Say Sources

Last Updated:October 30, 2025, 14:36 IST

Top intelligence sources attribute the paralysis of Canada’s security ecosystem to systemic flaws in law enforcement and political complicity.

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Canada’s collapsing security environment has exposed a network of key individuals driving violence and extremist infiltration. Darshan Saanhsi, a peace-loving businessman from Abbotsford, was murdered in broad daylight, deepening fear within the Punjabi community.

The violence links to Channi Natt, a Khalistani singer known for glorifying drugs and militancy, whose Surrey home was recently targeted in a shooting tied to Khalistani-linked drug cartels. According to top intelligence sources, the recent shooting at the residence of Channi Natt on October 27, 2025, is part of an ongoing turf war over narcotics routes and gurdwara-linked funding channels. His father, Surjit Singh Natt, a member of the Khalistani Gurdwara Dashmesh Darbar, represents the ideological front that shields such networks.

Perry Dulle, an extremist on Canada’s no-fly list, is closely associated with Natt and suspected of coordinating drug and arms trafficking for Khalistani groups. On the financial side, Nurinder Singh Parmar, son of Air India bomber Talwinder Singh Parmar, has reportedly been positioned by ISI-backed handlers within the non-profit sector to divert charity funds toward extremist causes.

Similarly, Moninder Boyal, operating under the renamed Sikh Youth Federation (formerly the banned ISYF), plays a key role in fund diversion and propaganda operations. Enabling this web of crime and radicalism is the silence of Punjabi-origin Canadian politicians, whose unwillingness to confront Khalistani extremism—due to political and vote-bank interests—has allowed these threats to grow unchecked under the guise of community activism.

Between June and October 2025, over 48 gang-related shootings were recorded across Surrey, Abbotsford, and Brampton — most of them linked to Khalistani-linked drug cartels, according to law enforcement sources. The murder of moderate Sikh businessman Darshan Saanhsi in Abbotsford in September 2025 has heightened fear within the Punjabi business community, which now faces threats and extortion from extremist-linked gangs.

Top intelligence sources attribute the paralysis of Canada’s security ecosystem to systemic flaws in law enforcement and political complicity. The RCMP and Surrey Police Service, they note, remain overstretched and constrained by judicial leniency that limits preventive detention or deportation of foreign-linked offenders. Political interference, particularly from Punjabi-origin legislators, has further weakened response mechanisms.

Sources also highlight the “complete silence” of leaders such as Jagmeet Singh and several local MLAs on Khalistani infiltration. Intelligence officials allege that both Liberal and NDP circles are under pressure not to designate Khalistan-linked entities as terrorist organisations to preserve coalition support in British Columbia.

Leaked assessments from Surrey RCMP and CSIS in October 2025, sources say, show Pakistani-linked accounts financing social media propaganda glorifying slain extremists like Hardeep Singh Nijjar. According to top sources, ISI operatives are exploiting Canada’s liberal visa regime to rotate “religious volunteers” who act as couriers, fund movers, and recruiters — deepening the nexus between extremism and organized crime in Canada’s Sikh diaspora.

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Manoj Gupta

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