Trudeau’s plane refused landing at Amritsar in 2018 till he agreed to meet Amarinder, report
Trudeau’s plane refused landing at Amritsar in 2018 till he agreed to meet Amarinder, report
JALANDER: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and his defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan were not allowed to land in Amritsar in Feb 2018 until they had agreed to meet the then Punjab CM, Capt Amarinder Singh, according to a report in Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper, on Tuesday.
The newspaper’s report comes within days of the arrest of three Punjabi youths in connection with the murder of pro-Khalistan separatist and chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) Hardeep Singh Nijjar (45), designated a terrorist by India. Diplomatic ties between Canada and India are already in rough weather over allegations of the involvement of Indian agents in the murder.
Amarinder had handed over a list of nine “A-category” Canada-based terror operatives, including Indian-origin members of KTF, International Sikh Youth Federation and Babbar Khalsa International members, to Trudeau on Feb 21, 2018 in Amritsar. He had informed Trudeau that Canadian soil was being misused by pro-Khalistan activists for financing terror activities in India. Except in one or two cases, Amarinder had told him that the Canadian govt had failed to take any action against those nine people, including Nijjar.
“The discussion with Capt Singh was ‘not pleasant’,” Globe and Mail report quoted a source as saying, adding that Canadian govt officials had assured the Indians they would look at the list presented to Sajjan, one that had previously been shared with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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