{"id":23203,"date":"2023-11-10T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/canada-police-probe-video-warning-not-to-fly-air-india-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:18:07","slug":"canada-police-probe-video-warning-not-to-fly-air-india-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/canada-police-probe-video-warning-not-to-fly-air-india-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada police probe video warning not to fly Air India | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Canada’s federal police are investigating a warning in videos circulating online not to fly Air India starting November 19, the transportation minister said Thursday.<\/p>\n

“We take every threat seriously, especially when it concerns airlines,” Transportation Minister Pablo Rodriguez told reporters in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he added, “is doing an investigation.”<\/p>\n

The videos, posted online in the last week, feature Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general counsel for the US-based Sikhs for Justice, which advocates the creation of a separate Sikh state carved out of India.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0India-Canada diplomatic thaw remains remote despite visa easing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He warns Sikhs in the video: “Don’t fly Air India after November 19, your lives may be in danger.”<\/p>\n

He told Canadian media this was not a threat, but rather a call to boycott Indian businesses.<\/p>\n

The Sikh separatist movement is largely finished within India, where security forces used deadly force to put down an insurgency in the state of Punjab in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Canada is home to some 770,000 Sikhs, who make up about two per cent of the overall population, with a vocal minority calling for creating a separate Indian state called Khalistan.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September raised allegations that Indian agents played a role in the June murder of a Canadian Sikh leader, near Vancouver, and expelled an Indian diplomat believed to have a link to the slaying.<\/p>\n

India dismissed as “absurd” the bombshell accusation.<\/p>\n

Relations between India and Canada have plunged over the unsolved slaying, and Indian unhappiness over how Ottawa has handled Sikh separatists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n