U.S. authorities are reported to have indicted an individual, Nikhil Gupta, for plotting the assassination of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a prominent Sikh leader of the Khalistan movement. According to the indictment, Gupta was directed by an Indian government officer to pay $100,000 to a purported hitman to commit the murder. This comes close on the … Read more
Advertisement Canada-India relations have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries are swapping accusations and expelling each other’s diplomats over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader and Canadian national. Experts said it remains to be seen if the murder will create a lasting rift between the two U.S. allies, but … Read more
Advertisement Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations its government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist, an accusation that India rejected as “absurd.” Trudeau said in Parliament on Monday that Canadian intelligence agencies have been looking into the … Read more
Advertisement After a month-long chase and a nationalist media frenzy, Amritpal Singh, a 29-year-old pro-Khalistan preacher and leader of Waris Punjab De, surrendered to police forces on April 23 in the northwestern Indian border state of Punjab. During the search for Singh, 353 Sikh youth were arrested, out of which only 10 had cases filed … Read more
Beyond the Indus | Politics | South Asia The shadowy reemergence of the global Khalistan project. Advertisement Beyond the Indus podcast hosts Tushar Shetty and Joe Wallen explore the emergence and downfall of Amritpal Singh and evaluate where support for an independent Sikh state is at its greatest: in Punjab or overseas.