CANADA MUST GIVE PROOF, STOP SHELTERING TERRORISTS: DIPLOMATS

'Canada is actually providing safe haven by covering up for the Khalistani terrorist activities calling it freedom of speech'.

- INDRANI GHOSH

Former Indian diplomats who have served across the globe have called for caution by the Justin Trudeau government so as not to push diplomatic ties between India and Canada into a full-blown disaster mode after events quickly spiraled out of control following the Canadian PM’s remarks about “credible allegation” against India in the killing of a Khalistani activist. The row erupted over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was shot dead in Vancouver on 24 June.

Founder President of the Indo-American Friendship Association, New Delhi, Ambassador Surendra Kumar, who has served in Libya, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo and Eritrea & High Commissioner of India to Kenya, Swaziland and Malta, told The Sunday Guardian: “There are too many premature conclusions right now that need to be stemmed and things need to be resolved diplomatically. That said, the Canadian PM has bitten more than he can chew at this point.”

Kumar added: “Trudeau has made wild accusations of sensitive nature against the largest democracy in the world without offering any concrete evidence which he has repeatedly claimed are based on credible allegations.” “What is ‘credible allegation’?” he asked. “In court of law ‘credible evidence’ can be submitted, but nowhere can ‘credible’ allegation, for that is just allegation, hearsay, your word against mine, unless proven right.”

“A week has passed after Trudeau’s outburst, but no evidence has been shared through diplomatic channels, which is what is most needed to control the situation rather than interpolation from both sides with expulsion from both sides,” he added.