Rather than simply denying involvement, India should cooperate as publicly as it can in the investigation of the murder of a Sikh leader in Canada, says Mihir Sharma for Bloomberg Opinion.
in British Columbia came as a shock to many in India for a couple of reasons. For one thing, most of us still believe that we’re the good guys and our government doesn’t do this kind of thing.- which its foreign ministry strongly denies - it would represent a pretty major escalation of the country’s covert struggle against both non-violent dissidents and active supporters of militant separatism abroad.
Some in India no doubt hope the government will be able to pull off an Israel-like strategic ambiguity here, with everyone suspecting that Indian intelligence services were behind the killing but nobody being able to prove it. This would, in turn, keep the country's diplomatic stature intact. Trudeau said he brought the accusations to Modi “personally and directly". The official Indian readout of the meeting, meanwhile, makes only one point, accusing Canada of supporting a “nexus” of religious militancy and “organised crime, drug syndicates and human trafficking".There’s a lot we still don’t know about this case.
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