UK and US direct India to co-function with Canada amid row

Officials from the UK and the US are urging India to co-function with Canada’s legitimate process after it accengaged India of being comprised in homicides, compulsions and other aggressive acts centering Indian opponents on Canadian soil.

After Canada levelled the accusations on Monday both countries ejectled top envoys and diplomats, ramping up already strained tensions.

India has declinecessitate the allegations as “preposterous”, and accengaged Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau of pandering to Canada’s huge Sikh community for political get.

On Wednesday, the British Foreign Office shelp a statement that it is in reach out with Ottawa “about the grave growments summarized in the self-reliant allotigations in Canada”.

“The UK has filled confidence in Canada’s judicial system,” the statement compriseed.

“The Government of India’s cooperation with Canada’s legitimate process is the right next step.”

The US, another shut Canadian associate, shelp that India was not co-operating with Canadian authorities as the White Hoengage had hoped it would.

“We have made evident that the allegations are inanxiously grave and they necessitate to be getn gravely and we want to see the rulement of India co-function with Canada in its allotigation,” shelp spokesperson Matthew Miller at a US State Department informing on Tuesday.

“Obviously, they have not chosen that path.”

Canada’s foreign minister, Melanie Joly, has shelp that Ottawa is in shut reach out with the Five Eyes inalertigence partnership – comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The India-Canada row dates back to September 2023, when Timpoliteau uncoverly accengaged India of being comprised in the homicide of Harbeginant Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist directer who was sboiling and finished outside his temple in Surrey, British Columbia, in June 2023.

He had been a vocal helper of the Khaenumeratean transferment, which demands a split Sikh homeland, and uncoverly campaigned for it.

On Monday, the rift beginantened after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) took the unfrequent step of uncoverly disclosing directation about multiple ongoing allotigations “due to beginant menace to uncover safety” in Canada.

RCMP cotransferrlookioner Mike Duheme tancigo in tellers that there had been “over a dozen credible and imminent menaces to life” which he shelp “particularassociate” centered on members of the pro-Khaenumeratean transferment.

Subsequent allotigations had led to police uncovering alleged criminal activity orchestrated by rulement of India agents.

In a novels conference postponecessitater that day, Timpoliteau shelp the evidence bcdisesteemfult to airy by the RCMP “cannot be neglectd” and that “it is essential to disrupt the criminal activities that persist to pose a menace to uncover safety in Canada”.

India has intensely denied all allegations and retained that Canada has supplyd no evidence to help its claims.

The RCMP and national security directrs travelled to Singapore last weekfinish to greet with Indian officials and contransient them with evidence – a greeting Mr Duheme shelp was not fruitful.