External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar sharply rebuked Canada on Friday, lambasting its government for “giving space” to extremists, separatists and those who advocate violence. His remarks came in the wake of a float celebrating Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her Sikh bodyguards, which was part of a parade in the Canadian city of Brompton.
Addressing a special briefing on the completion of nine years of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Jaishankar appreciated the development of relationships between India and its immediate neighbours Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar over the last decade, but ruled out the normalisation of ties with Pakistan unless Islamabad stops cross-border terrorism. He added that adequate progress on Sino-India relations could not be made, as China had sought to “coerce” India.
