{"id":31054,"date":"2018-10-27T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31054"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:28:00","slug":"canada-india-red-faced-over-invite-to-khalistan-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/canada-india-red-faced-over-invite-to-khalistan-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, India red-faced over invite to Khalistan activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/canada-india-red-faced-over-invite-to-khalistan-activist\/article22830275.ece\"><b>Canada, India red-faced over invite to Khalistan activist<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s office and the Modi government has faced a major embarrassment after it emerged that a convicted terrorist and Khalistan activist from Canada had been part of the delegation\u2019s events in Mumbai and was personally invited to a reception by the Canadian High Commission in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photographs of Jaspal Atwal with a Canadian minister and wife of the Canadian PM have rekindled the debate on Justin Trudeau\u2019s stand on pro-Khalistan movement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The controversy surfaced after photographs of the invitation to the event in honour of Mr. Trudeau at \u201cCanada House\u201d in Delhi on 22<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> February as well as the event on 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> February in Mumbai appeared in Canadian media.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calling the invitation a mistake, Mr. Trudeau said it had been sent by a member of the Canadian parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Ministry of External Affairs said it was inquiring into how the Indian High Commission in Canada had issued Mr. Atwal a visa.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Jaspal Atwal:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaspal Atwal is an Indian-origin businessman with ties to the Khalistan movement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was formerly associated with a banned Sikh-separatist outfit-<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), thought to be responsible, along with the Babbar Khalsa, for the 1985 mid-air bombing of Air India flight 182, killing 329 persons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaspal Atwal was one of the four men convicted for shooting of Malkiat Singh Sidhu , a minister in Punjab in 1986 on the Vancouver island<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the verdict was overturned, Mr. Atwal admitted to the parole board that he was the shooter that day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada, India red-faced over invite to Khalistan activist Context: Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s office and the Modi government has faced a major embarrassment after it emerged that a convicted terrorist and Khalistan activist from Canada had been part of the delegation\u2019s events in Mumbai and was personally invited to a reception by the&hellip; 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