NEW YORK: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that they have credible reasons to believe that India’s agents were involved in the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. He called on New Delhi to collaborate with Canada to ensure a transparent probe into the murder of Nijjar on Canadian soil.
Trudeau at UN: Canada Has Credible Reasons to Believe Over India’s Role in Sikh Leader Killing
“We call upon India to take this issue seriously and to work with us to shed complete transparency and ensure justice and accountability in this matter,” PM Trudeau said in response to questions at a news conference on the sidelines of the 78th session of United Nations General Assembly in New York.
He said “We are a nation of the rule of law. We are going to do the work essential to keep our citizens safe and to uphold our values and the global rules-based order.
Tensions between Canada and India escalated this week after PM Trudeau’s assertion of a “possible” involvement of India’s agents in the Sikh leader’s killing on June 18 in British Columbia.
Earlier, on Monday, the Canadian Prime Minister said that they had “credible” evidence linking India’s agents to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June.
Pakistan called the incident, which has further strained relations between India and Canada, “a reckless act that calls into question New Delhi’s reliability as a credible global partner and its claims for enhanced international responsibilities.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said that it suggests “that India’s network of extra-territorial killings has now gone international,”.
The United States said on Thursday that they are giving India no “special exemption” over the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, adding Washington is in contact with New Dehli at a high level over the matter.
