Published 22:22 IST, October 16th 2024
Trudeau’s Ties With Khalistanis Exposed: Pannun Admits Of Sharing Inputs About India To Canada's PMO
Khalistani terrorist and Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun confessed that he was in continuous touch with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s office.
Khalistani terrorist and founder of banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on Wednesday made a shocking revelation confessing that he and his organisation was in continuous touch with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office and shared inputs related to India. Pannun admitted that he shared information against India following the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and suggested that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was behind the murder. He also admitted to communicating with the Canada Prime Minister's Office for the last 2-3 years.
The shocking details were disclosed by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun during an interview with the Canadian broadcaster CBC News. Pannun said he gave information to Trudeau ‘detailing the spying network’ of the Indian authorities in Canada.
The Pannun interview comes amid a significant deterioration in diplomatic relations between India and Canada.
The India-Canada has hit another rough patch recently, after New Delhi expelled six Canadian diplomats shortly after summoning Canada’s Charge d’Affaires, Stewart Wheeler, and recalled its own envoys citing concerns over their security. The Indian government’s step came up after the Justin Trudeau government announced that the Indian ambassador to Canada is a ‘person of interest’ in an ongoing probe in the Nijjar murder case.
After the Canadian government’s decision to name the Indian envoy as a person of interest in the case, India expressed its resentment in strongest words saying that the “baseless targeting” of its high commissioner and other diplomats and officials in Canada was entirely unacceptable.
It criticised the Canadian PM for providing space to violent extremists and terrorists ‘to harass, threaten and intimidate Indian diplomats and community leaders in Canada’.
Ties have remained frayed since last June after Justin Trudeau alleged that Indian agents played a role in the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India strongly denied the allegations, labelling them ‘absurd’ and ‘motivated’ and said Canada gives space to extremist and anti-India elements.
Updated 22:22 IST, October 16th 2024