Canada’s Allegation Creates a Dissonance in the Post-G20 Narratives About India https://thewire.in/diplomacy/india-canada-nijjar-modi Nirupama Subramanian 21/Sep/2023
"What the Canadian allegation has done is to call out the paradox: abroad, the Modi government wants to be seen as Vishwaguru, a rules-abiding global leader who is a reliable partner of the West, and at home as a take-no-prisoners, tough-talking don, who can ghus ke fix all perceived enemies." For Delhi, which wants to be seen rubbing shoulders at the high table with the G7 even as it claims the leadership of the “global south”, Canada’s allegation has created a dissonance in the post-G20 narratives about India, its influence and clout, its convening power, and its bridging capabilities. All this because India has worked hard to project itself as a land of 1.5 billion people that is not China.
It is not too well known that at the time, the CSIS wanted R&AW to sign off on a MoU listing do’s and don’ts for foreign intelligence operatives, which the Indian agency refused to do. Over the next few years, R&AW and IB did not post anyone in Canada. A semblance of Indian intelligence presence in Canada was maintained through the Bureau of Security in the Ministry of External Affairs, manned mainly by police officers. These officials are posted to missions abroad to manage the security of the diplomats. In Canada, in a decade crucial for India’s battle to save Punjab, they were tasked with part-time intelligence work too. This continued until matters were resolved in the mid-1990s,
Terry Glavin: After Trudeau alleges murder plot, Canada-India relations may be irreparable https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-after-trudeau-alleges-murder-plot-canada-india-relations-may-be-irreparable Who are these 'credible allegations' coming from? Sep 19, 2023 In the column, in which he lights into Trudeau for “irreparably” damaging ties with India and handing Beijing a victory, Glavin suggests that the BJP was in touch with Ripudaman Malik, one of three main accused in the Kanishka bombing case. in the background is what became largely a covert operation, a backchannel reconciliation effort between Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and veteran Canadian Khalistanis who were growing weary of agitating for a separate Sikh state in India that India’s Sikhs want nothing to do with... but the Trudeau government bowed to a Khalistani-influenced group of gurudwara leaders and “obstructed the peace dialogue ..process,”