Canadian intelligence agency accuses India of interference, spying

NEW DELHI: A Canadian quality bureau has included India and China successful a database of countries progressive allegedly successful overseas interference and espionage successful Canada. In the lawsuit of India, however, Khalistan extremism was identified arsenic a large nationalist information menace to Canada, a constituent New Delhi has belaboured with Ottawa for long.The study by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) comes successful the mediate of efforts by PM Mark Carney to repair the narration with India that saw him visiting the state earlier this year. In the past 12 months, Carney and his counterpart Narendra Modi person successfully managed to resistance the narration retired of a heavy frost that it had descended into implicit the sidesplitting of a Khalistan separatist — Hardeep Singh Nijjar — allegedly by Indian agents successful 2023.

Apart from India and China, the study named Pakistan, Russia and Iran arsenic main perpetrators of overseas interference and espionage against Canada.The aforesaid study for 2024 excessively had accused the aforesaid 5 countries of outer interference. However, the latest study has importantly tempered down its earlier references to India. The 2025 study says that “historically” India has cultivated covert relationships with Canadian politicians, journalists and members of the Indo-Canadian assemblage to exert its power and beforehand its interests.

This, it said, “transnational repression activities, specified arsenic surveillance and different coercive tactics meant to suppress disapproval of the Government of India and make fearfulness successful the community.”However, dissimilar the past time, determination was nary notation of the Nijjar contented successful the study oregon what it had described past twelvemonth arsenic escalation successful India’s repression efforts against the Khalistan movement.On Khalistan, the study said that immoderate CBKEs (Canada-Based Khalistani Extremists) were good connected to Canadian citizens “who leverage Canadian institutions to beforehand their convulsive extremist docket and cod funds from unsuspecting assemblage members that are past diverted toward convulsive activities.”The study besides flagged menace from Sikh extremists who, it said, usage Canada arsenic a basal to “promote, fundraise oregon program unit chiefly successful India”