{"id":59304,"date":"2023-10-20T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/19\/canada-india-withdraw-diplomats"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:32:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T22:32:55","slug":"canada-withdraws-41-diplomats-from-india-embassy-amid-murder-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59304","title":{"rendered":"Canada withdraws 41 diplomats from India embassy amid murder dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country forced to reduce diplomatic presence amid tensions over Sikh separatist killing and says it will not take retaliatory steps<\/p>\n<p>Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats from India amid a dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist, announced foreign minister Melanie Joly, adding that Ottawa would not take retaliatory steps.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/india-orders-canada-to-remove-41-diplomats-from-delhi-embassy-reports\">asked Ottawa to reduce its diplomatic presence<\/a> after prime minister Justin Trudeau said there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\">credible evidence of a potential link between Indian agents and the murder<\/a> in June of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, who was shot outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/19\/canada-india-withdraw-diplomats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country forced to reduce diplomatic presence amid tensions over Sikh separatist killing and says it will not take retaliatory stepsCanada has withdrawn 41 diplomats from India amid a dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist, announced foreign minis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3423,"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":[246,244,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304","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\/3423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304\/revisions\/59305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}