India has expelled an as-yet unidentified senior Canadian diplomat amid ‘growing concern’ of ‘anti-India activities,’ hours after Ottawa expelled an Indian diplomat
on Canadian soil, India responded in kind Tuesday, while describing the claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “absurd” and “unsubstantiated.”
Cameron Mackay, Canada’s High Commissioner to India, was summoned by the foreign ministry Tuesday to receive the news. It expressed “deep concern” that Canadian political figures have “openly expressed sympathy” for Sikh separatists and accused Canada of giving space “to a range of illegal activities including murders, human trafficking and organized crime.”
Mr. Nijjar, who promoted Sikh independence in Canada and urged Indians to vote in a non-binding referendum on whether Punjab should secede from the rest of India, was alerted by Canadian intelligence as early as last year about a potential plot to kill him, according to his lawyer and the World Sikh Organization of Canada
In India, Mr. Trudeau is often denounced by the media as soft on terrorism and Canada-based Sikhs blamed for unrest in the Punjab. During a visit to New Delhi this month for the G20, Mr. Trudeau did not get an official bilateral meeting with Mr. Modi and appeared to be given short shrift by the Indian leader, a purported “humiliation” that was played up in the local press., pointing to growing ties between Canada and India, as well as work being done on a new trade deal. But on Sept.
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