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India's expert in anti-terrorism, a former head of state police Mr. K.P.S. Gill said on Thursday that he has been invited by the Sri Lankan Government to advise on security issues and that his visit was not linked in any way to the Indian Government. "I have been invited in my personal capacity by the Sri Lankan Government," he said. "This is essentially a recce trip. I will be meeting core people and I will be returning there at some point in time. This trip is for an understanding of the situation there". "It has nothing to do with the Indian Government. My agenda is completely informal and is intended to share our perceptions with them," he added. Mr. Gill said that he would be meeting Sri Lankan policy makers and experts who were "concerned" with the ethnic conflict in the island nation. An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman also stressed that Mr. Gill was visiting Colombo in his personal capacity. Gill is credited with ending about two decades of militancy in Punjab, which claimed some 25,000 lives until the early 19990s, considerably denting secessionist movements in the far-eastern Indian state of Assam. The tough police chief has led the "Black Thunder" operation to flush out Sikh militants holed up in the Golden Temple, Sikhdom's holiest shrine in the northern Indian city of Amirtsar, in June 1988. Thirty-six top militants lost their lives in the 11 day operation.
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