India on Thursday lodged a strong protest after pro-Khalistani extremists held a 'citizens court' in front of India's consulate in Vancouver and burnt Prime Minister Narendra Modi's effigy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Canadian PM Justin Trudeau at the G7 Outreach Summit, in Apulia. (ANI)
India lodged a strong protest with the Canadian high commission through a diplomatic note, conveying New Delhi's strong objection to Khalistanis being given a free hand by Justin Trudeau government.
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The stern diplomatic move comes day after the Canadian parliament observed a 'moment of silence' in the memory of Khalistan Tiger Force terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, who was gunned down in Surrey, British Columbia, on June 18 last year, was an old associate of Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) terrorist Gurdeep Singh aka Deepa Heranwala, who was involved in more than 200 killings in Punjab in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Canadian intelligence has continuously tried to peddle the narrative of Nijjar being an innocent and religious-minded head of Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey, Canada.
Despite repeated protests of the indian government, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is playing vote bank politics. He runs a minority government with support of Khalistan linked New Democratic Party run by India hater Jagmeet Singh.
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Despite repeated protests of the indian government, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is playing vote bank politics. He runs a minority government with support of Khalistan linked New Democratic Party run by India hater Jagmeet Singh.
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During the G7 Summit in Italy earlier this month, Prime Minister Modi briefly met Trudeau but held no bilateral meetings with the Canadian premier, who refuses to crack down on anti-India propaganda being run by Khalistanis from his soil.
Last year, Trudeau in the Canadian parliament alleged the role of Indian agents in the killing of Nijjar, but is yet to provide an iota of evidence to substantiate his allegations.
Last month, external affairs minister S Jaishankar had said the government gave names of 25 persons for extradition but there had been no response from Trudeau's government. The list includes notorious gangsters and pro-Khalistani terrorists taking refuge in Canada.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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