X blocks journalist over Khalistan-linked interview

The social media platform X has suspended the account of a prominent Indo-Canadian journalist after he featured an interview with a former pro-Khalistan extremist who alleged that Pakistan's spy agency had multiple agents in Canada and were covertly working with separatists targeting India.

- Anirudh Bhattacharyya

TORONTO:

Those allegations were voiced by Jaswal Atwal, who was convicted in Canada for the attempted murder of visiting Punjab Minister Malkiat Singh Sidhu in Vancouver Island in 1986. He was interviewed by Sameer Kaushal, the founder-editor of the digital outlet News Derby.

Hours later Kaushal received a notice from X that his personal account, where he had posted the video of the interview, had been suspended for violating its "rules against authenticity."