When will the diplomatic rift between India and Canada end?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. On Monday, Sept. 18, Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist. Trudeau told Parliament that he brought up the slaying with Modi at the G-20. Inset: Mr Thiru S. Thiruchelvam. Source: The Canadian Press / Sean Kilpatrick/AP

The rift between India and Canada has now turned into a confrontation after the Prime Minister of Canada blamed a diplomat at the Indian embassy in Ottawa for the murder of a leader of a Sikh organisation in Canada.

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Mr Thiru S. Thiruchelvam, a veteran newspaper editor, (formerly in Sri Lanka, and currently in Canada), founder and editor of the monthly magazine “Tamil’s Information,” analyses the situation with Kulasegaram Sanchayan.

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