Canadian Khalistani Threat to India
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A flag of the Kahlistan movement and the Canadian flag |
"[A
small number of Khalistani extremists] continue to use Canada as a base
for the promotion, fundraising or planning of violence primarily in
India."
"[A situation which served, in turn, to draw the attention of India and fuelled Indian foreign interference actions in Canada]."
"[India is outlined as one of the] main perpetrators [of foreign interference and espionage."
"[Links
between the Government of India
and the 2023 murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar represents a
significant escalation in India’s repression efforts against the
Khalistan movement and a clear intent to target individuals in North
America."
"[Canada] must
remain vigilant about continued foreign interference conducted by the
Government of India, not only within ethnic, religious and cultural
communities but also in Canada’s political system."
Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) 2024 report
CSIS
observes and diagnoses the situation it has called out from the
perspective of incomplete or selective data, bypassing the provocations
that a small, vocal, violent and conspiratorial group within the overall
Canadian Sikh population represents in plotting against India on
Canadian soil, hoping to incite an insurrection against Indian rule of
its Sikh population by fulminating against India and demanding that the
Indian government assent to fracturing its territorial integrity by
gifting a portion of the Punjab to Indian Sikhs as a sovereign homeland,
to be called Khalistan.
This,
at a juncture when the issue has fairly well dissipated in India
itself; its Sikh population no longer interested in separating from
India, and reflected in its largest expatriate community located in
Canada where most Canadian Sikhs have no interest in calling for a
geographic separation between Sikhs and Hindus.
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| Relations between India and Canada have been strained ever since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister. If the India-Canada bilateral readouts after the brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi reflected a relationship that’s destined to head the Pakistan way, then the diplomatic war that has been declared by Trudeau and joined by India has ended all pretense of normal ties and reduced Canada to the status of a new Pakistan. Observer Research Foundation |
The
deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history took place forty years
ago when ferociously anti-India Sikhs in Canada plotted an act of
aviation catastrophe, and succeeded in blowing up an Air India passenger
jet, killing 329 people on board, 268 of whom were Canadian citizens.
An act of terrorism that the RCMP is still investigating, although it is
well known and acknowledged that a particularly virulent Khalistani
radical group was responsible for masterminding the attack and acting on
it.
Enquiries
and trials that eventually took place failed to lead to establishing
guilt, leaving the perpetrators to walk away, free men. Since then the
perpetrators of that appalling lethal attack have never been called to
account. An outcome that failed to impress India favourably. Much less
the fact that the government of Canada has failed India's requests to
surrender to their authorities Canadian Sikhs who have been found guilty
of major crimes in India.
The
extremist Khalistani movement remains hale and hearty in Canada which
has chosen to harbour them rather than condemn their actions and ongoing
incitements to violence against India. In their parades, the
Khalistanis take pride in venerating those among them infamous for
violent lethal acts against Hindi India. They mock the assassination of
former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by one of her Sikh
bodyguards, and desecrate her image, just as they hang India's current
Prime Narendra Modi in effigy.
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In
2023 the U.K. government commissioned a review that revealed Khalistani
activists exploited government ignorance, threatened and intimidated
Sikhs, indoctrinated youth and solicited funds from Sikh temples to
further their extremist agenda. No such revelatory actions have been
taken in Canada. Instead the government has no reaction to the
Khalistani penchant for extolling the heroics of the terrorists among
them and the vicious vilification of India's majority Hindu population
and their government.
India's
concerns and overtures to the Canadian government have availed it
nothing. Instead, the federal government continues to equate the extreme
fringe Khalistanis with the majority Sikh population in Canada who have
nothing whatever to do with them and who have no interest whatever in
espousing for a Sikh Khalistani homeland. All this, in the Liberal
government-of-the-day courting an ethnic bloc vote.
CSIS
in fact revealed that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency
aided and made use of the Khalistan movement in its own bid to
destabilize India.
India
maintains that Pakistan's involvement of protecting, funding and
training the Khalistanis, enabled the group to emerge into a
transnational criminal enterprise. In British Columbia Khalistani
terrorists murdered some of its prominent Sikh critics. Former British
Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh himself was mercilessly beaten by
Khalistanis, furious that a Sikh-Canadian from a place of political
prominence, attacked them as human-rights violators.
Peel
Regional Police recently dismantled a major narco-terrorism network in
the Greater Toronto Area linked to suspected Khalistan sympathizers.
Proceeds from the illicit drug trade were involved in financing
anti-India activities in Canada; protests, referendums and the
acquisition of weapons among them. Moreover, Khalistan sympathizers are
believed to have forged links to Islamist terror groups in the Middle
East and South Asia. Linked in a common purpose of anti-Israel,
anti-India sensibilities.
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| Out of the nine arrested, seven are Canadian citizens of Indian origin. A huge narco-terror network with links to Khalistan sympathizers has been busted by police in Canada. |
"Some
Canadians participate in legitimate and peaceful campaigning to support
the Khalistan movement," the CSIS report goes on to say. "Non-violent
advocacy for an independent state of Khalistan is not considered
extremism. Only a small group of individuals are considered Khalistani
extremists because they continue to use Canada as a base for the
promotion, fundraising or planning of violence primarily in India. While
there were no CBKE-related attacks in Canada in 2024, ongoing
involvement in v ..
"Some
Canadians participate in legitimate and peaceful campaigning to support
the Khalistan movement," the CSIS report goes on to say. "Non-violent
advocacy for an independent state of Khalistan is not considered
extremism. Only a small group of individuals are considered Khalistani
extremists because they continue to use Canada as a base for the
promotion, fundraising or planning of violence primarily in India. While
there were no CBKE-related attacks in Canada in 2024, ongoing
involvement in v ..
Prime Minister Modi and his core
ministers and advisers are keen to build India’s global
influence and counter any activity they consider as
‘anti-India,’ at home or abroad, in the name of domestic
stability and prosperity. With that considered, there is
a long history of India arguing that Canada is a haven
for ‘anti-India’ activity, with the separatist Khalistan
movement being a particular focus of India’s concern,
which is rooted in the aftermath of the 1985 Air India
bombing and subsequent terrorist activity in India. CSIS 2024 Report
Labels: Canada, India, Khalistani Sikh Separaists in Canada, Political Relations
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, June 22, 2025
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