Close coordination between the US and Canada on the death of Nijjar Miller, spokeswoman for US State Department
The US has stated that it is closely coordinating with Canada regarding the claims of the Indian government’s alleged complicity in the fatal shooting of Khalistan terrorist Nijjar. This comes as India appears to have cornered Canada on the issue of the Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder case and asking questions about what it believes is the exact definition of terrorism and whether Nijjar came across as one.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller responded to an inquiry about Nijjar’s death in Canada by saying, “We remain in close coordination with our Canadian colleagues on this question.”
During the daily press conference on Monday (local time in the US), Miller delivered his remarks.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that the Indian government was behind Nijjar’s shooting killing.
In Surrey, British Columbia, on June 18, Nijjar, a guy with a terrorist designation in India, was shot and murdered in front of a Gurdwara.
Trudeau said that “agents of the Indian government” were probably to blame for the death of the Canadian citizen who also held the position of president of Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara during a debate in the Canadian Parliament.
India, on the other hand, has vehemently refuted the accusations, calling them “absurd” and “motivated.”
Notably, Canada has not yet released any evidence to the public about the suspected murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Miller claims that the US has frequently approached the Indian government to request their assistance with the Canadian investigation.
He said that US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar had the opportunity to discuss the issue at their Friday meeting.
Ottawa intends to “work constructively with India” in response to the allegations, according to Trudeau.
During a news conference with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trudeau said, “Canada has conveyed the credible charges that I discussed on Monday against India. We did it with India a few weeks ago. We hope that India would engage with us so that we can investigate this really critical issue as we are there to work constructively with them.
According to EAM Jaishankar, the problem with Canada has persisted because of the country’s “permissiveness” toward terrorism, extremism, and violence.
According to Mr. Jaishankar, the situation is not in a “deadlock,” and the Indian government is prepared to take into account any particular information provided by the Canadian side about the situation.
“Well, I don’t know if I would use the term deadlock,” Mr. Jaishankar said during a news conference on Friday in Washington, DC. The issue is as follows: The Canadians have leveled some allegations. They have been advised that this is not a policy of the Government of India, but if they are prepared to provide us more information and specifics, we would be happy to evaluate it. That is the way things are right now.
“But what we do not want to see is an incident treated in isolation because then that somewhere does not convey the right picture,” he said.
