India blames Trudeau’s ‘cavalier behaviour’ for chill in ties with Canada

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New Delhi: In a rare late night statement Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs held Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus cavalier behaviour solely responsible for the harm caused to the relations between the two countries...

The ministrys reaction came hours after the Canadian prime minister admitted Wednesday that Ottawa had only intelligence and no hard evidentiary proof tolink Indian officials to the killingof Hardeep Singh Nijjar, when Canada first reached out to New Delhi in August 2023...

A statement posted by MEA after 1 am Thursday read: What we have heard today only confirms what we have been saying consistently all alongCanada has presented us no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations that it has chosen to level against India and Indian diplomats...

Speaking at the countrys foreign interference commission hearing Wednesday, Trudeau said that sometime in late July or early August last year, his government had received intel from the Canadian intelligence community as well as possibly Five Eyes allies, which indicated links between Indian officials and the murder of Nijjaran India-designated terrorist...

A couple of months after Trudeaus allegations, the US Department of Justice indicted an Indian citizen, Nikhil Gupta, in a foiled plot to murder Gurpatwant Singh Pannunanother India-designated terrorist based in New York...

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