A US official confirms that Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar the day before and urged India to cooperate with the Canadian investigation.
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India has denied any role in the killing, refuting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, describing the allegations as"absurd". The accusations have sparked tensions between the two countries, with each nation expelling diplomats, and New Delhi suspending visas for Canadians. Nijjar, who worked as a plumber, left the north Indian state of Punjab a quarter-century ago and became a Canadian citizen. He has supported the formation of a Sikh homeland. India designated him a"terrorist" in July 2020.
Sikhs make up just two percent of India's 1.4 billion people but they are a majority in Punjab, a state of 30 million where their religion was born 500 years ago.
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