Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode

Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode () is a Sikh militant from Punjab, India, head of the organization "International Sikh Youth Federation" (ISYF), which has been banned as a terrorist organization in Canada, USA, UK and in India.
The organization has branches in a dozen countries in western Europe and Canada.

Lakhbir is the nephew of radical Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed by the Indian Army in Operation Blue Star. Lakhbir is also affiliated with the Khalistan Zindabad Force. He is also known Lakhbir Singh alias Singh Lakhbir Rode alias Singh Lakhbir. There is an Interpol red corner alert
A-23/1-1997.

Possible Role in Air India 182 Bombing

In July 2007, the investigative weekly Tehelka reported that in a confession by militant Talwinder Singh Parmar to the Punjab police
days before his death on October 15, 1992, he had identified Lakhbir as the mastermind behind the Air India 182 (Kanishka) bombing on June 23, 1985.
The report quotes from the confession:
:"Around May 1985, a functionary of the International Sikh Youth Federation came to me and introduced himself as Lakhbir Singh and asked me for help in conducting some violent activities to express the resentment of the Sikhs. I told him to come after a few days so that I could arrange for dynamite and battery etc. He told me that he would first like to see a trial of the blast...After about four days, Lakhbir Singh and another youth, Inderjit Singh Reyat, both came to me. We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered off a blast. Lakhbir and Inderjit, even at that time, had in their minds a plan to blast an aeroplane. I was not too keen on this plan but agreed to arrange for the dynamite sticks. Inderjit wanted to use for this purpose a transistor fitted with a battery...That very day, they took dynamite sticks from me and left.

:Then Lakhbir Singh, Inderjit Singh and their accomplice, Manjit Singh, made a plan to plant bombs in an leaving from Toronto via London for Delhi and another flight that was to leave Tokyo for Bangkok. Lakhbir Singh got the seat booking done from Vancouver to Tokyo and then onwards to Bangkok, while Manjit Singh got it done from Vancouver to Toronto and then from Toronto to Delhi. Inderjit prepared the bags for the flights, which were loaded with dynamite bombs fitted with a battery and transistor. They decided that the suitcases will be booked but they themselves will not travel by the same flights although they will take the boarding passes. After preparing these bombs, the plan was ready for execution by June 21 or 22, 1985. However, the bomb to be kept in the flight from Tokyo to Delhi via Bangkok exploded at the Narita airport on the conveyor belt. The second suitcase that was loaded on the Toronto-Delhi ai flight exploded in the air." - from the confession by Talwinder Singh Parmar but found little ground for him being the mysterious "Mr. X".
Incidentally, when the two tickets were purchased, the phone number given was that of
an ISYF official.

Tehelka also reports that Lakhbir might have been an Indian agent at the time, which is why these reports were suppressed.
The allegations are currently being investigated by Air India inquiry team in Canada.

RDX Smuggling Activity

In 1998, Lakhbir was arrested at Teku, near Kathmandu, Nepal with 20 kg of RDX explosives, and apparently confessed that the RDX was given to him by a counsellor in the Pakistan Embassy at Kathmandu.
Lakhbir is said to be one of the main organizers of a KZF/ISYF unit at Birganj on the India-Nepal border.

On 2006-12-24, a large arms cache was seized in Punjab from three persons allegedly
members of the ISYF; two of them were relatives of Lakhbir Singh Rode. Police officials indicated that the explosives were "presumably to be used for carrying out disruptive activities in the state during the forthcoming Assembly elections".

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