Swaminarayan Temple attack: Khalistan menace will come to haunt Canada in a big way
FirstpostThere is a growing realisation among the Canadian political class that the appeasement of Khalistanis will cost Canada its bilateral relations with India big time The ugly attack on the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Toronto has once again exposed Canada as a hotspot for pro-Khalistani elements This is not the first time that temples have been attacked in Canada. Another terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar, chief plotter of the 1987 Air India plane bombing in Ireland, was debarred from entering next door neighbour United States but Canadian authorities never took similar action against him. There is a growing realisation among the Canadian political class that its appeasement of Khalistanis will cost Canada its bilateral relations with India big time. India also appointed Ajay Bisaria as High Commissioner to Canada whose task was cut out to sensitise the Canadian government about the linkages between Khalistanis and Pakistan’s ISI.