Tensions still ramping up between Canada and India

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expelled a top Indian diplomat on Monday after making the startling allegation in Parliament that the Indian government was involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist on Canadian soil. India retaliated on Tuesday by kicking a senior Canadian diplomat out of the country.

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In June, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal advocate for an independent Sikh homeland who was designated by India as a terrorist, was shot dead inside his car in a parking lot. Trudeau announced that Canadian authorities are “actively pursuing credible allegations” linking agents of the Indian government with the murder. The expelled Indian diplomat is Pavan Kumar Rai, head of India’s foreign intelligence agency operations in Canada.

[Hindu-Sikh relations have been bad for decades, but the hardline nature or the Modi government hasn’t done anything to improve matters — nor with Muslims or Christians in India, either. If the Indian government took part in the assassination of Nijjar, though, that would be a serious escalation and a completely unacceptable intrusion of Canadian sovereignty. Stay tuned. — Ed]

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