WASHINGTON: Hitting out at Canada, foreign minister S Jaishankar has said it is necessary to call out things like violence, threats and intimidation against Indian diplomats and missions and wondered if this had happened to any other country would the world have taken it with equanimity.
“Let’s not normalise what is happening in Canada,” Jaishankar said during an interaction with Indian journalists here on Friday. His remarks came amidst simmering tensions with Ottawa following PM Justin Trudeau’s allegations of the “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of pro-Khalistan extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18 in British Columbia.
India had designated Nijjar as a terrorist. India rejected the allegations as “absurd” & “motivated” and expelled a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official.
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“Let’s not normalise what is happening in Canada,” Jaishankar said during an interaction with Indian journalists here on Friday. His remarks came amidst simmering tensions with Ottawa following PM Justin Trudeau’s allegations of the “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of pro-Khalistan extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18 in British Columbia.
India had designated Nijjar as a terrorist. India rejected the allegations as “absurd” & “motivated” and expelled a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official.
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