India on Thursday suspended problem of visas to Canadian residents “until additional discover”. A discover by BLS Worldwide – a personal company employed for preliminary scrutiny of visa purposes – stated “Attributable to operational causes… Indian visa companies have been suspended until additional discover”.
This comes as India and Canada are locked in a global row over Ottawa’s declare it has “credible allegations” linking brokers of New Delhi to the homicide of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan Sikh terrorist. India has rejected the allegation as “absurd” and “motivated”.
It’s not but clear if the suspension of visas is linked to that row.
Relations between India and Canada have been already tense after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dialog along with his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, on the G20 Summit in Delhi this month.
The PM expressed India’s “sturdy issues about persevering with anti-India actions” in that nation.
On Monday, Mr Trudeau stated his nation’s safety companies had info indicating “brokers of the Indian authorities” had assassinated Nijjar, who was a Canadian citizen.
Nijjar, 45, was shot lifeless outdoors a gurdwara in Canada’s British Columbia in June. Hailing from Punjab’ Jalandhar, he was chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Power and one in every of India’s most needed terrorists. There was a Rs 10 lakh money reward for his seize or info resulting in his arrest.
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The reward was in reference to the killing of a Hindu priest in Punjab’s Jalandhar.
Nijjar can also be accused in a 2007 bombing case in Punjab and is believed to have ties to current assaults on Indian diplomatic missions in the UK, United States and Canada.
India “fully rejected” the Canadian PM’s allegations concerning its involvement in Nijjar’s dying and underlined its issues over their (Canada’s) political figures overtly expressing sympathy for “such parts”.
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“Such unsubstantiated allegations search to shift focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists, who’ve been supplied shelter in Canada and proceed to threaten India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Canadian authorities’s inaction has been a long-standing and persevering with concern.”
Because the row escalated, the 2 nations every expelled a senior official.
Ottawa ordered a senior official of the Analysis and Evaluation Wing to depart the nation and India ejected a diplomat for “interference… in inner issues and involvement in anti-India actions”.
The 2 nations additionally exchanged journey advisories.
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Canada up to date its India advisory this week to reflect that of the USA and it explicitly mentions Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, warning of “violent clashes between militants and safety forces within the former” and “ethnic tensions” resulting in “battle and civil unrest”within the latter.
On Wednesday, shortly after Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met PM Modi within the new Parliament constructing, India suggested its residents in Canada, and people considering travelling, to train “utmost warning” in view of anti-India actions and “politically-condoned” hate crimes.