Justin Trudeau stated, “India must take this matter with the utmost seriousness”. (FILE)
Ottawa:
Canada just isn’t making an attempt to impress India by suggesting its brokers have been linked to the homicide of a Khalistani terrorist however Ottawa desires New Delhi to deal with the problem correctly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated on Tuesday.
“The federal government of India must take this matter with the utmost seriousness. We’re doing that, we’re not seeking to provoke or escalate,” he instructed reporters. Earlier within the day, India dismissed the Canadian authorities’s accusations as absurd.
India at this time expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a reciprocal transfer over Trudeau’s cost that it performed a job within the June killing of a Khalistani terrorist. The diplomat, who’s unnamed, has 5 days to go away the nation.
The Canadian Prime Minister yesterday stated his authorities had “credible allegations” linking Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing with the “brokers of the Authorities of India”. The Indian authorities rejected the allegation as “absurd and motivated”.
The spat offers a contemporary blow to diplomatic ties, with New Delhi sad over Sikh separatist exercise in Canada. It now threatens commerce ties too, with talks on a proposed commerce deal frozen final week.