Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
Canada is not alone in worrying about Indian killers
JUSTIN TRUDEAU, Canada’s prime minister, sparked a furore on September 18th when he announced in Parliament that India was suspected of assassinating a Sikh separatist and Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Vancouver in June. It may not have been the only such case. On November 22nd the Financial Times reported that America had foiled an Indian plot to kill another separatist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual American-Canadian citizen, in New York.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Et tu, India?”
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