“India’s terrorists can’t be West’s ‘father figures’: Time to relook Canada’s role in 1985 Kanishka bombing”, First Post, September 25, 2025:
“The diplomatic ties between India and Canada have hit a nadir after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused New Delhi for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani terrorist, in British Columbia’s Surrey. While the Khalistanis, true to their calling, have now threatened to target the India mission in Ottawa and consulates in other cities in that country, the Canadian media, in coordination with their Western counterparts, in an ostrich-style of reporting, have been busy sanitising Nijjar’s criminal past by projecting him as a “temple leader”.
One newspaper has gone to the extent of calling him “a tireless campaigner and fatherly figure” who would do temple works “with his own hands”. This is shocking, especially for those who have not been closely tracking Canada’s internal politics and its Khalistani links. After all, this is not the first time Indians and the Indian mission have been targeted in that country.
In the 1980s, even as Bill Warden, Canada’s high commissioner then, was assuring India’s foreign secretary on “the upgraded security being provided at Indian missions” in Canada, as he recalls in his 2017 memoirs, Diplomat, Dissident, Spook, “an armed gunman walked into the consulate general in Toronto, fired some shots, and then slipped away unimpeded……”
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