Canada’s allegations towards India might have USA or UK hand, says overseas affairs knowledgeable

Foreign affairs knowledgeable Robinder Sachdev has mentioned Canada’s allegations towards India could also be based mostly on intelligence collected by America or England on their very own or it could be that Canada requested them to search out out some data.

Sachdev was referring to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations that the Indian authorities was behind the deadly capturing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.

Najjar, who was needed in India, was gunned down exterior a Gurdwara, in a parking space in Canada’s Surrey, British Columbia on June 18.

Canada just lately introduced that the intelligence it’s utilizing to research the Nijjar case has acquired inputs from one of many different 5 Eye nation members.

The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and the UK.

Sachdev mentioned: “Most probably, given the geographic understandings, it would have been maybe America or England who had collected some intelligence on their own, or Canada asked them to find out some information that would also be so.”

“And they collected some information and passed it back to Canada. So this is certainly becoming a concerning matter. Canada has an inquiry underway already, and in that inquiry also, I think the Five Eye countries would be collaborating with Canada when they’re sharing the information.”

The overseas affairs knowledgeable mentioned Canada, the US are urgent India to share or cooperate however India is pushing it again. “So, the Canadians are continuing with the inquiry. The problem will get bigger now when the Canadians say that their inquiry is completed, maybe in two weeks, four weeks, four months, whichever time, then it will be a decision time for Canada, the US, England to decide what to do and for India also to decide what to do.”

Speaking on the Five Eyes, Sachdev mentioned it’s the most refined digital intelligence gathering community of 5 nations. It was arrange simply after the Second World War, initially with the United States and England for intelligence sharing as a result of through the Second World War, they have been already clever sharing.

After the Second World War, the 2 nations added Canada after which added Australia and New Zealand as a community the place intelligence could be shared between these nations.

“They have highly sophisticated and very deep capabilities and technologies. The American National Security Agency. The British have the general communication headquarters, the GCHQ. The GCHQ has very deep capabilities of gathering signal intelligence from telephonic, wireless, satellite, whichever signals, and then of course, the Australians and New Zealand, they have their own,” Sachdev mentioned.

“So mainly, I think the work which they are able to focus more is electronic intelligence, which they call as signal intelligence. But at the same time, these five countries also hugely collaborate in what they call human intelligence, physical spying by physical people. They do both of these things and collect that information and share with each other,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen has mentioned it was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that led the Trudeau administration to make the declare of a possible hyperlink between “agents” of the Indian authorities and the killing of separatist Sikh chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

“I will say this was a matter of shared intelligence information. There was a lot of communication between Canada and the United States about this, and I think that’s as far as I’m comfortable going,” Cohen advised Canada’s CTV News in an interview.

However, Cohen kept away from detailing the kind of intelligence shared by the Five Eyes companions with the Canadian authorities.

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