{"id":27440,"date":"2023-11-23T04:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/india-restarts-suspended-tourism-business-e-visas-for-canadians-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T04:43:19","slug":"india-restarts-suspended-tourism-business-e-visas-for-canadians-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-restarts-suspended-tourism-business-e-visas-for-canadians-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"India restarts suspended tourism, business e-visas for Canadians | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nNEW DELHI:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India resumed issuing e-visas for Canadian tourists and business travellers on Wednesday two months after it suspended such services following a row over Ottawa&#8217;s accusation of possible Indian government involvement in the murder of a Canadian Sikh separatist leader.<\/p>\n<p>Though the move is likely to ease tensions slightly, relations between the two countries are not expected to significantly improve in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;E-visa services to Canadian nationals have resumed,&#8221; an Indian government official aware of the decision said on the condition of anonymity, as he was not authorised to speak on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/India-Canada diplomatic thaw remains remote despite visa easing\">India-Canada diplomatic thaw remains remote despite visa easing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official did not say if the decision will lead to a significant thaw in the relationship with Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>India issues e-visas only for tourism and business for Canadian nationals.<\/p>\n<p>It comes a month after New Delhi had resumed visas under four of the 13 categories that had been suspended in September.<\/p>\n<p>Ties between the countries nosedived after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canada&#8217;s parliament that his government was &#8220;actively pursuing credible allegations&#8221; linking Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45 in a Vancouver suburb.<\/p>\n<p>Nijjar was a proponent of a decades-long, but now a fringe demand to carve out an independent Sikh homeland from India named Khalistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India resumed issuing e-visas for Canadian tourists and business travellers on Wednesday two months after it suspended such services following a row over Ottawa&#8217;s accusation of possible Indian government involvement in the murder of a Canadian Sikh separatist leader. 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