🌎 India expels Canadian diplomats, withdraws envoy to Ottawa

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Well looks like the other shoe has fallen. Credible and Irrefutable evidence provided.

Persona non Grata includes the Indian High Commissioner - wow!

Seems like Indian incumbent govt. and Modi aren't afraid of the West (or losing Backoffice business).

If the West is alienated, all the cronies (S'pore, Japan, UAE, Qatar and most of ASEAN) will fall in line as well.

 

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Look at how Indian Godi Media is reacting. Indian Hindutvas should be banned from immigrating to Canada. Canadian Hindutvas are threatening to vote out Trudeau!

The gall of these people! Any connection to hate groups is immediate cause for deportation in both US and Canada. And as we all know Hindutva is a hate movement.

No more Hindutva rogues should be allowed in Canada!

Indian Hindutva movement is a Cancer all over North America and should be targeted and rooted out.

 

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India expels Canadian diplomats, withdraws envoy to Ottawa: foreign ministry​

AFP
October 14, 2024

NEW DELHI/MONTREAL: India said on Monday it was expelling six top Canadian diplomats after withdrawing its own envoy to Ottawa because he was named among “persons of interest” following the killing of a Sikh separatist leader.

India “decided to expel” six diplomats including Ottawa’s acting high commissioner Stewart Wheeler, his deputy and four first secretaries. “They have been asked to leave India by or before 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 19,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, India had said that it was withdrawing its envoy to Canada because Ottawa was investigating him and other diplomats as “persons of interest”, after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.

“We have no faith in the current Canadian Government’s commitment to ensure their security,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. “Therefore, the Government of India has decided to withdraw the High Commissioner and other targeted diplomats and officials.”

The development comes after India criticised Canada earlier during the day, saying Ottawa was investigating its ambassador and other diplomats as “persons of interest”, after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.**

The 2023 murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar crashed diplomatic relations with India after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” linking Indian intelligence to the crime.

India’s foreign ministry said in a statement it had “received a diplomatic communication from Canada suggesting that the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats are persons of interest” in the ongoing investigation.

Nijjar – who immigrated to Canada in 1997 and became a citizen in 2015 – had advocated for a separate Sikh state, known as Khalistan, carved out of India.

He had been wanted by Indian authorities for alleged terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder.

Four Indian nationals have been arrested in connection with Nijjar’s murder, which took place in the parking lot of a Sikh temple in Vancouver in June 2023.

India on Monday called allegations it was connected to the killing as “preposterous” and a “strategy of smearing India for political gains”.

Last year it briefly curbed visas for Canadians and forced Ottawa to withdraw diplomats, and on Monday threatened further action.

Canada has ‘political compulsion’ to blame India for Sikh slaying: New Delhi

“India now reserves the right to take further steps in response to these latest efforts of the Canadian Government to concoct allegations against Indian diplomats,” the foreign ministry said.

Canada is home to some 770,000 Sikhs, who make up about two percent of the country’s population, with a vocal minority calling for an independent state of Khalistan.

In November 2023, the US Justice Department also charged an Indian citizen living in the Czech Republic with allegedly plotting a similar assassination attempt on US soil.

Prosecutors said in unsealed court documents that an Indian government official was also involved in the planning.

 

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It is ironic that without Canadian technology and subsequent Uranium supply starting in 1956 - the Indian weapons grade Plutonium refining and Indian nuclear weaponization would not have been possible.

Now Canada is being treated as the villain in India.

Typical pattern of biting the hand which feeds one.

Canada and India: The nuclear genie, 40 years on

After an absence of 40 years, Canada is once again selling uranium to India. The deal is a good one for Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp., which has won a lucrative five-year contract to supply more than seven million pounds of uranium concentrate to one ...

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

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After recalling envoy, India expels 6 Canadian diplomats

India today expelled six senior Canadian diplomats after announcing its decision to withdraw its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other "targeted" diplomats and officials in Canada

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After recalling envoy, India expels 6 Canadian diplomats

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India today expelled six senior Canadian diplomats after announcing its decision to withdraw its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other "targeted" diplomats and officials in Canada.

The move came in protest against what New Delhi termed "an atmosphere of extremism and violence" in that country and the Justin Trudeau government's actions "endangering" their safety, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Late this evening, the Indian External Affairs Ministry issued a press release stating that the government of India has decided to expel six Canadian diplomats who have been asked to "leave India by or before 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 19".

The Canadian diplomats expelled by India are acting High Commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler, Deputy High Commissioner Patrick Hebert along with first secretaries Marie Catherine Joly, Ian Ross David Trites, Adam James Chuipka and Paula Orjuela.

Earlier today, India announced its decision to pull out its high commissioner to Canada and other diplomats after they were labelled by Canada as "persons of interest" in its probe into the killing of Sikh separatist militant Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver, Canada.

"We have no faith in the current Canadian government's commitment to ensure their security. Therefore, the government of India has decided to withdraw the High Commissioner and other targeted diplomats and officials," the Ministry of External Affairs said in the first statement issued today.

Later, in a separate statement, the MEA said the Canadian Charge d'Affaires in New Delhi was summoned to the foreign ministry by MEA secretary (east) this evening and he was informed that "the baseless targeting of the Indian high commissioner and other diplomats and officials in Canada was completely unacceptable."

"It was underlined that in an atmosphere of extremism and violence, the Trudeau government's actions endangered their safety. We have no faith in the current Canadian government's commitment to ensure their security. Therefore, the government of India has decided to withdraw the high commissioner and other targeted diplomats and officials," according to the statement.

It said it was also conveyed to the Canadian diplomat that "India reserves the right to take further steps in response to the Trudeau government's support for extremism, violence and separatism against India."

In the first statement, the MEA firmly rejected Canada's allegations suggesting the involvement of Verma and some other Indian diplomats in a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in that country, describing them as "preposterous" and "centred around Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "political agenda and vote bank politics."

India's high commissioner to Canada and other Indian diplomats in that country are "persons of interest" in a matter related to a Canadian investigation, the MEA's earlier statement said today quoting a Canadian diplomatic communication.

In a sharp response, the MEA rejected the "preposterous imputations" of Canada's claim and said "it is part of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "political agenda" centred around "vote bank politics".​

 

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https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/38417/Indias_response_to_diplomatic_communication_from_Canada

 

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[Bilal9]

India doing regime change in Canada? Wow!

Little do Canadian Hindutvas know that they'll be the first to get deported if White-Nationalist coddling Poilievre gets to be PM of Canada.

Canada's Conservative leader ejected from House of Commons

Pierre Poilievre refused to apologise after calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a 'wacko'

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A bit of a backgrounder on this whole sordid state-of-affairs

India-Canada row: How ties hit rock bottom between the two countries

India and Canada expelled diplomats as tensions rose over last year's killing of a Sikh separatist in Canada.

www.bbc.com