{"id":74504,"date":"2025-09-30T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/canada-lawrence-bishnoi-gang-terrorist-entity"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:38:05","slug":"canada-designates-indian-gang-linked-to-high-profile-killings-as-terrorist-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74504","title":{"rendered":"Canada designates Indian gang linked to high-profile killings as terrorist entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian government accuses the Lawrence Bishnoi gang of being involved in murder of prominent Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s federal government has announced that a powerful and ruthless Indian gang which uses \u201cmurder, shootings and arson\u201d to extort and intimidate diaspora communities \u2013 and has alleged links to India\u2019s ruling government \u2013 has been designated as a terrorist entity.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has accused the Lawrence Bishnoi gang of possible involvement in the murder of prominent Sikh activist and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/canada-lawrence-bishnoi-gang-terrorist-entity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian government accuses the Lawrence Bishnoi gang of being involved in murder of prominent Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar near VancouverCanada\u2019s federal government has announced that a powerful and ruthless Indian gang which uses \u201cmurder, shoot&#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":[246,244,62,433,1282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-sikhism","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\/74504","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=74504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504\/revisions\/74505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}