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India connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) called upon Canada to enactment against "anti-India extremist elements" operating from Canadian ungraded against the backdrop of a Canadian quality study highlighting the nationalist information menace posed by Khalistani elements.
The yearly study for 2025 by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), released past week, said the engagement of Canada-based Khalistani extremists successful "violent extremist activities" continued to airs a nationalist information menace to Canada.
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"India has repeatedly urged the Canadian authorities to instrumentality effectual enactment against anti-India extremist elements operating from its soil. This includes addressing the contented of glorification of violence, threats against Indian leaders and diplomats, vandalism of places of worship, and attempts to beforehand secessionism done alleged 'referendums'," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said astatine his play media briefing.
Mr. Jaiswal was responding to a question connected the study by CSIS.
He said India had consistently spoken retired astir concerns regarding the usage of Canadian territory arsenic a "safe haven" by extremist and separatist elements.
"The CSIS appraisal acknowledges the beingness of supporters of the Khalistan separatist question successful Canada and notes that Canada-based Khalistani extremist (CBKE) groups proceed to airs a nationalist information menace not lone to India but besides to Canada," helium said.
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Mr. Jaiswal said the study besides highlighted that specified elements "misuse antiauthoritarian freedoms and institutions to beforehand extremism and rise funds that are diverted towards convulsive activities".
To a abstracted question connected the CSIS study mentioning India, alongside China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan, among the "main perpetrators of overseas interference and espionage against Canada", Mr. Jaiswal said New Delhi had consistently and categorically rejected specified "baseless imputations".
"India's presumption connected this contented has been wide and consistent. We categorically cull specified baseless imputations," helium said.
"India is simply a ideology that adheres to planetary norms and respects the sovereignty of different nations. It is not our argumentation to interfere successful issues of different countries.”
"We judge that immoderate concerns of this quality should beryllium addressed done established mechanisms, alternatively than done nationalist oregon politicised narratives," Mr. Jaiswal said.
