{"id":58511,"date":"2023-09-20T03:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/trudeau-india-expulsions-canada-sikh-leader-killed"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:16:18","slug":"canada-and-india-make-tit-for-tat-envoy-expulsions-over-killing-of-sikh-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58511","title":{"rendered":"Canada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions over killing of Sikh leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top intelligence officials expelled after Trudeau accused India of involvement in assassination of exiled Hardeep Singh Niijar<\/p>\n<p>Canada and India have announced tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions after Justin Trudeau\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\">explosive allegation<\/a> that New Delhi was behind a state-sponsored assassination on Canadian soil \u2013 accusations that India derided as \u201cabsurd\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday, the Canadian prime minister stood firm on the allegations that India was implicated in the death of the Sikh independence advocate Hardeep Singh Niijar, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/20\/advocate-separate-sikh-state-india-shot-dead-canada-hardeep-singh-nijjar-temple\">shot dead in Surrey, British Columbia, in June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/trudeau-india-expulsions-canada-sikh-leader-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top intelligence officials expelled after Trudeau accused India of involvement in assassination of exiled Hardeep Singh NiijarCanada and India have announced tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions after Justin Trudeau\u2019s explosive allegation that New Delhi w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,62,712,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-justin-trudeau","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58511\/revisions\/58528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}