Americas' India expels Canadian diplomats, withdraws envoy to Ottawa

[Vsdoc]

Point is simple.

Sanctions dont scare India. Especially Canadian sanctions.

Canada sanctioned India since 1974. When Canada was actually a first world country. And India struggling.

The Americans tried it briefly too in 1998.

Americans have actually regularly killed Indian nuclear scientists. And we will give you guys as much proof of it as Canada gave us on Nijjar.

So quit the sanctimonious whining.

Do something. And see what you get.

 

[Vsdoc]

India's response to diplomatic communication from Canada​

October 14, 2024
We have received a diplomatic communication from Canada yesterday suggesting that the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats are ‘persons of interest’ in a matter related to an investigation in that country. The Government of India strongly rejects these preposterous imputations and ascribes them to the political agenda of the Trudeau Government that is centered around vote bank politics.

Since Prime Minister Trudeau made certain allegations in September 2023, the Canadian Government has not shared a shred of evidence with the Government of India, despite many requests from our side. This latest step follows interactions that have again witnessed assertions without any facts. This leaves little doubt that on the pretext of an investigation, there is a deliberate strategy of smearing India for political gains.

Prime Minister Trudeau’s hostility to India has long been in evidence. In 2018, his visit to India, which was aimed at currying favour with a vote bank, rebounded to his discomfort. His Cabinet has included individuals who have openly associated with an extremist and separatist agenda regarding India. His naked interference in Indian internal politics in December 2020 showed how far he was willing to go in this regard. That his Government was dependent on a political party, whose leader openly espouses a separatist ideology vis-à-vis India, only aggravated matters. Under criticism for turning a blind eye to foreign interference in Canadian politics, his Government has deliberately brought in India in an attempt to mitigate the damage. This latest development targeting Indian diplomats is now the next step in that direction. It is no coincidence that it takes place as Prime Minister Trudeau is to depose before a Commission on foreign interference. It also serves the anti-India separatist agenda that the Trudeau Government has constantly pandered to for narrow political gains.

To that end, the Trudeau Government has consciously provided space to violent extremists and terrorists to harass, threaten and intimidate Indian diplomats and community leaders in Canada. This has included death threats to them and to Indian leaders. All these activities have been justified in the name of freedom of speech. Some individuals who have entered Canada illegally have been fast-tracked for citizenship. Multiple extradition requests from the Government of India in respect of terrorists and organized crime leaders living in Canada have been disregarded.

High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is India’s senior most serving diplomat with a distinguished career spanning 36 years. He has been Ambassador in Japan and Sudan, while also serving in Italy, Turkiye, Vietnam and China. The aspersions cast on him by the Government of Canada are ludicrous and deserve to be treated with contempt.

The Government of India has taken cognizance of the activities of the Canadian High Commission in India that serve the political agenda of the current regime. This led to the implementation of the principle of reciprocity in regard to diplomatic representation. 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.

New Delhi
October 14, 2024

Source: https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releas...ponse+to+diplomatic+communication+from+Canada

 

[Saif]

Sikh murder plot: US charges ex-Indian intel official

The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer for allegedly directing a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist and Indian critic in New York City, with the FBI warning against such a retaliation aimed at a US resident.

An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday. The US Justice Department indictment mentioned Yadav as a former officer in India's Research and Analysis Wing spy service.

Washington has allegedthat Indian agents were involved in an attempted assassination plot against Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen.

"The FBI will not tolerate acts of violence or other efforts to retaliate against those residing in the U.S. for exercising their constitutionally protected rights," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.

The indictment alleged that beginning in May 2023, Yadav, described as an employee of the Indian government at the time, worked together with others in India and abroad to direct a plot against Pannun. The indictment described Pannun as a political activist, a critic of the Indian government and an advocate for a separate homeland for Sikhs.

India has labeled Sikh separatists as "terrorists" and as threats to its security. Sikh separatists demand an independent homeland known as Khalistan to be carved out of India. An insurgency in India during the 1980s and 1990s killed tens of thousands.

Yadav, 39, was still in India and the United States was expected to seek his extradition, the Washington Post reported, citing American officials.

MURDER-FOR-HIRE

The indictment said Yadav had hired an Indian national named Nikhil Gupta whom the U.S. Justice Department has previously charged with trying to arrange the murder of Pannun at the behest of the Indian intelligence official.

Yadav recruited Gupta "to orchestrate the assassination of the victim in the United States," the indictment, filed in federal court in Manhattan, said.

Gupta traveled to Prague from India last June and was arrested by Czech authorities before being extradited to the US where he pleaded not guilty in a court in June.

The indictment on Thursday charged Yadav with "murder-for-hire and money laundering."

In a statement on Thursday, Pannun welcomed the indictment of Yadav, but described him as a "mid-tier soldier" who the Sikh separatist alleged was assigned by Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and then RAW Chief Samant Goel as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal to dismantle Sikh separatism.

INDIA-US TALKS, CASE IN CANADA

An Indian government committee investigating Indian involvement in the foiled murder plot met with U.S. officials in Washington on Tuesday, a meeting that Washington described as productive.

Without giving further details, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday that India informed the U.S. that "the individual who was named in the Justice Department indictment is no longer an employee of the Indian government."

The United States had been pushing India to look into the U.S. Justice Department's claim that an Indian intelligence official - now identified as Yadav - directed plans to assassinate Pannun.

The U.S. case is not the only instance of India's alleged targeting of Sikh separatists on foreign soil.

Canada on Monday expelled Indian diplomats, linking them to the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. India also ordered the expulsion of Canadian diplomats and denies Canada's allegations.

The US Justice Department says Nijjar and Pannun were associates, and said that Gupta, who was allegedly hired by Yadav, felt that after Nijjar's killing in Canada, there was "now no need to wait" on killing Pannun. The plot against Pannun was thwarted by US authorities.

The accusations have tested Washington and Ottawa's relations with India, often viewed by the West as a counterbalance to China.​

 

[Krishna with Flute]

US is trying bites more than it can chew. It thinks that it can handle so many nations together. In the process, its debt is rising like anything. It spends a lot more money in handling the countries compared to what it spends on welfare of its own and world people. It is on wrong path which leads to nowhere except terrorism.

 

[Sharma Ji]

koi ni

we'll get him next time.

 

[Bilal9]

This is a foolish path Indians under Modi is going down in.

The results will not be positive for Indian economy. Sane Indians will suffer.

I say watch this space if incumbent Indian govt. doesn't change its tack.

1st world countries WILL NOT tolerate interference on their sovereignty from a third (or even fourth) world country like India - which is entirely dependent on remittance from the West and Gulf and investments from the West for their economic well-being. Canada alone invested US$ 75 Billion in the last few years.

Indian citizens' attitudes don't match their country's auqaat. For those Hindu extremists that live overseas, get ready to pack your bags.

 

[Lulldapull]

koi ni

we'll get him next time.

Oh bhai Iran and Israel do things like this. You guys will just damage yourself trying to do extrajudicial killings in third countries.

Israel is a western proxy and Iran doesn’t give a damn no matter who has the guts to stand against it. Nobody can tell the iranis what to do.