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Interrogations have revealed use of jailed cadres, unemployed youth, criminals and smugglers by Pakistan-based Sikh terror groups for facilitating terror attacks. "Intel agencies also said certain parts of Uttarakhand had experienced terror activities with the involvement of Sikh radicals in the recent past. Sikh youths are being trained at ISI facilities in Pakistan. Their larger plan, according to an input accessed by TOI, includes attacking RSS shakhas and Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, as they aim to "inflict large number of casualties".Sikh extremists "may even resort to deploying human bombs" to target prominent RSS and Sikh Sangat leaders, the input said. NEW DELHI: The perpetrators of the attack on a congregation of Nirankaris in Amritsar are yet to be identified but the government and the intelligence agencies have been worried for a while that Sikh militant groups, with the help of Pakistan's spy agency ISI and terror outfits, were making "serious attempts" to revive militancy in Punjab.Several Sikh radical groups have held meetings with representatives of Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba operating in J&K in the recent past and sought support for their operations, an intelligence official based in Punjab said..