Indian foreign ministry claims ‘security threats’ after Trudeau’s explosive allegation of state-sponsored killing mean it cannot provide visa services safely

India says it is indefinitely suspending visa services in all categories for all Canadian nationals due to “security threats” to its consulates, amid a furious diplomatic row between the two countries.

Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said they have suspended “all categories” of visas, including e-visas and for Canadian citizens applying from third countries.

And India has also moved to downsize the Canadian diplomatic presence in New Delhi, saying that Canada has more embassy workers in its capital than visa versa and that it wants to restore “parity”.

It comes after Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” of the Indian state’s involvement in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, triggering a furious tit-for-tat row.

  • eee@lemm.ee
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    Wow who would have thought, India is winning the North Korea speed run challenge.

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    How does it make any sense?

    “We murder a person in your country, but you mad?! >:( no visa for you!!!”

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    So pathetic from India - seeking to punish Canada for the fact that the Indian government murdered a Canadian in Canada, and Canada had the temerity to call them out for it.

    What an absurd victim complex Modi has.

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      It’s sadly not uncommon among Brahmins. “How can these people we literally enslaved for millennia DARE want to convert to a different religion? Why aren’t they more grateful?”

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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    Its funny coz I think Modi thinks people are dying to visit India.🤣🤣 its like Taliban thinking Afghanistan is the most developed country in the world.🤣🤣🤣

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        Students. Higher education in India is incredibly bad. Thousands of Indians pay huge sums to get into Canadian unis.

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          India has some of the highest ranked universities in the world. It’s a country famous for putting out doctors. Yes, there are issues with higher ed, but it’s not as simple as “incredibly bad”. And don’t forget that a large number of foreign students is also a product of just having a large population.

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          Higher education in India is incredibly bad.

          Imma be level with you homie, the only Indians who leave to Canada for higher education are the ones who did not make it into the top universities in India.

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      As they should, India is an amazing and very unique country

      Why on Earth am I being downvoted. You guys need to leave your basement once in a while

  • the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml
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    Sometime i think Modi studied from the same school where Xi Jinping and putin pass out.

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      Modi doesn’t have any college degree even though he claims so but refuses to share college certificate so far.