Canada Expels Indian diplomat after accusing India of killing their citizen on Canadian Soil

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/countrys-concerns-paramount-congress-backs-centre-over-india-vs-canada-4402858

The INC backs the BJP over this

Completely unsurprising.

This has definite vibes of another Skripal situation tbh, only involving an actual fatality this time.

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Canada is acting silly here.

I mean, are they?

Its a serious allegation whatever way you slice it.

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Well our PM is not exactly Modi-unsympathetic is he.

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I don't like or trust Trudeau, but it remains a real stretch that he would just make something like this up - and I agree that citing the Indian opposition or other governments (who will often have their own reasons for wanting to stay sweet with Modi) as "proof" otherwise is pretty meaningless.

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The Khalistan movement is absolutely dead. There is no chance in hell there will ever be a Khalistan, so why did India feel it needed to do this?

There was and is also "no chance in hell" that America would ever become a Salafi Jihadist Islamic theocracy ruled by Al-Qaeda (at least if we only take secular and scientific evidence into account and ignore what any religious beliefs may dictate is likely to happen), yet we still felt compelled to kill Bin Laden in 2011.

Just because the Khalistan movement is "dead" in the sense that it will never feasibly become supported by a majority or near-majority of Punjabi Sikhs, let alone ever achieve its goals, the Khalistan movement can still inspire the occasional bombing or killing from time to time, something which furthermore makes India as a whole look like less functional as a multiethnic unified state in the eyes of both its own people and the World.

Quebec will never be an independent Marxist-Leninist single party state. Yet, if some Indian socialist mid-level bureaucrat approved the citizenship request of a former or current FLQ bigwig whom the Canadian government reasonably believed was still capable of inspiring terrorism, then I'm inclined to believe that the Canadian state - not to mention Britain and likely also the USA - would likely pursue an extrajudicial assassination of this "Indian citizen," even on Indian soil if necessary, and Canada would be completely justified in doing so in the case that this person was responsible for past FLQ attacks.

The difference between this and Bin Laden is that we know Bin Laden was the mastermind behind the killing of thousands of Americans and other on 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks. What exactly Nijjar has done is a little unclear. Obviously he is a separatist who organized a vote on whether Khalistan should be formed and was the leader of a separatist group. But how involved was he in terror attacks/murders?

I am not one of those who is too concerned about this. Should India have done this in this manner? Probably not. Am I going to lose any sleep over them killing this likely terrorist though? Probably not.

You just posted before then that you didn't know this!

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Not sure if that one really sticks given some of the people the present Indian government like to lavish praise on.

<cough> Indian National Army <cough>

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When the west did jack s••• after Khashoggis death, people got the clue that its open season on dissidents.

This is indeed a reasonable point.

The reaction of most in the West to that was very telling (and not in a good way)

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/s-jaishankar-in-us-amid-row-with-canada-over-khalistani-terrorist-murder-4427006

"Had Told Canada "This Is Not India's Policy": S Jaishankar In US Amid Row"

Note that India Foreign Minister Jaishankar does not say "We did not do this" but "This Is Not India's Policy" when asked about Trudeau's claims.

That is quite possibly close to the actual truth, the chances this was someone "freelancing" without the actual approval from above must be fairly high.