Tensions flared between India and Canada early this week following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s explosive allegations
Toronto Canada’s allegations of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist in Surrey that sparked a diplomatic row between the two nations are based on intelligence from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh says
The intelligence did not come solely from Canada. Some were provided by an unnamed ally in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. That intelligence includes communications involving Indian officials themselves, including Indian diplomats present in Canada, say Canadian government sources.
Canada is part of a ‘Five Eyes’ network which is an intelligence alliance consisting of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Tensions between India and Canada flared early this week following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations of the “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on his country’s soil on June 18 in British Columbia. India had designated Nijjar as a terrorist in 2020.
A report said the diplomatic crisis unfolded progressively behind the scenes. Canadian officials went to India on several occasions seeking cooperation in the investigation of Nijjar’s death. Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Adviser Jody Thomas was in India over four days in mid-August, then again for five days in September.
.India has however rejected the allegations as “absurd” and “motivated” and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official over the case.
Canada is weighing retaliation but has taken no decision yet, said government sources in Ottawa.
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