Jaishankar raises Canada row in talks with Australia, says Ottawa 'giving space to extremism'

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New Delhi: India raised its ongoing diplomatic row with Canada during talks with Australia, which is part of the Five Eyes alliance, and stated clearly that Ottawa was giving space to extremism and radicalism...

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said his Australian counterpart Penny Wong, whose country had voiced support for Canada in the past, listened to him very carefully...

He confirmed that Canadas allegations were discussed Tuesday during the India-Australia Foreign Ministers Framework Dialogue...

The allegations were first levelled by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September in the House of Commons where he claimed that authorities in his country were investigating the role of agents of the Government of India in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, designated a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2020...

In October this year, speaking on the sideline of a gathering of intelligence chiefs of the Five Eyes, of which both Australia and Canada are members, Mike Burgess, the chief of Australias domestic intelligence arm Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had said that he had no reason to dispute Canadas allegations...

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