{"id":37806,"date":"2023-12-20T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/canadas-pm-sees-shift-in-india-relations-after-us-plot-revealed-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:33:00","slug":"canadas-pm-sees-shift-in-india-relations-after-us-plot-revealed-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/canadas-pm-sees-shift-in-india-relations-after-us-plot-revealed-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s PM sees shift in India relations after US plot revealed | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he senses a change in India’s tone with Ottawa after the United States warned New Delhi about its involvement in a thwarted plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, the CBC reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I think there is a beginning of an understanding that they can’t bluster their way through this and there is an openness to collaborating in a way that perhaps they were less open before,” Trudeau said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n

“There’s an understanding that maybe, maybe just churning out attacks against Canada isn’t going to make this problem go away,” he added.<\/p>\n

Trudeau announced Sept. 18 that Canadian intelligence agencies were pursuing credible allegations linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, 45-year-old Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia in June, upending diplomatic ties between the two nations.<\/p>\n

The US Justice Department in November charged a man accused of orchestrating an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist – a US citizen of Indian origin living in New York City, alleging that an Indian government official directed the plan. US officials did not name the targeted person.<\/p>\n

Read also:\u00a0India PM Modi’s Sikh separatist fight driven by security, politics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

After the US revelations, Canadian officials pressed India to cooperate in its investigation of the June murder, which drew renewed attention to the movement for a Sikh homeland in northern India.<\/p>\n

New Dehli had angrily rejected Canada\u2019s claim, sparking a diplomatic row, with both sides expelling diplomats and trade talks potentially destabilized. By contrast, India said it was taking the US indictment seriously and investigating.<\/p>\n

Both the United States and Canada are seeking to build better ties with India to counter Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want to be in a situation of having a fight with India right now over this. We want to be working on that trade deal. We want to be advancing the Indo-Pacific strategy,” Trudeau told the CBC.<\/p>\n

“But it is foundational for Canada to stand up for people’s rights, for people’s safety, and for the rule of law. And that’s what we’re going to do,” Trudeau said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n