ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday strongly condemned the involvement of India in the assassination of a Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and called upon the international community to take serious notice of the state-sponsored killing on Canadian soil.
Expressing serious concern over the killing of Nijjar, the president said it had been a strategy of India to eliminate the leadership of minority groups in India and in other parts of the world.
The president went on to say the cruel murder of the Sikh leader exposed the true face of India which has been intolerant towards minorities.
India committing gross HR violations in IIOJK
He said that India had been committing gross human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and other minority communities for decades.
He regretted that the world has become a silent spectator to the atrocities being committed by India in the IIOJK and the persecution of minorities and the demolishment of their worship places all over India.
The president added it is an open secret that India is the major cause of trouble in the region using the soil of neighboring countries against Pakistan through false flag operations, funding and support to the militants for terrorist activities in Pakistan, and providing training to the terrorists.
He regretted that the world chose to remain silent on Indian actions against Pakistan.
Earlier Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged that the agents of the Indian government were involved in the killing of Nijjar in June and announced an investigation by Canadian intelligence.
Nijjar was shot dead outside the Sikh temple on June 18, which led to speculation regarding Indian government involvement, given his support for the Khalistan movement.
Meanwhile, some unknown persons shot dead another Sikh separatist leader, Sukhdool Singh in Canada’s Winnipeg on Wednesday.
Pakistan’s Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has said that Indian involvement in an extrajudicial killing in Canada had shown that the country’s “network of extra-territorial killings had now gone global”.
