India’s has ‘legitimate’ concerns over pro-Khalistan movement in Canada: Inquiry commission

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1. SS: While the final report of a public inquiry alleged that India is the “second most active country engaging in electoral foreign interference in Canada”, it also appeared to acknowledge India’s has “legitimate” concerns over the pro-Khalistan movement in Canada.

   The report stated that according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) “India has some legitimate basis for concerns about the security threat posed by Khalistani extremism in Canada. Some extremists have engaged in threat-related activities directed at India from within Canada, notably by coordinating and funding terrorist activities in India.”
   But, it added, as per CSIS, “the vast majority of Khalistan supporters are peaceful”.

   It stated Canada and India have worked together for decades, but there were “challenges in the relationship”. Many of these, it said, were long standing and inform India’s foreign interference activities. “India perceives Canada as not taking India’s national security concerns about Khalistani separatism (the goal of an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called “Khalistan”) sufficiently seriously.”

   It said India “focuses its foreign interference activities on the Indo-Canadian community and on prominent non-Indo-Canadians to achieve its objectives”, adding that New Delhi “has targeted all levels of government”.

2. Those legitimate concerns being the inability to murder dissidents the state wants to kill.

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