Too soon. Way too soon. Inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come to Canada now amounts to a signal that foreign powers can interfere in Canada with impunity.
Less than two years ago, the Prime Minister of Canada – then Justin Trudeau – accused the Indian government of involvement in the murder of a Canadian. Last October, the RCMP alleged that agents of India had been involved in coercion, violent crime, and murder in Canada.
His Buds at Brookfield are chompin at the bit.
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada’s federal police’s that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia was orchestrated by the “highest levels” of the Indian government.
Carney declined to answer reporters’ questions over whether he believed Modi had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar – a killing on Canadian soil that shattered relations between the two countries.
“There is a legal process that is literally under way and quite advanced in Canada, and it’s never appropriate to make comments with respect to those legal processes,” he said on Friday. Four Indian nationals living in Canada have been charged with Nijjar’s murder.
China, India, Palestine there is no slimy entity Carney won’t chat up if it means a profit.
India and Pakistan launched a series of lethal missile attacks against one another last week. Fighting broke out after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a jihadist assault in Kashmir last month, in which 26 non-Muslim tourists were killed. A ceasefire was announced by US president Donald Trump this week, which was welcome news after reports the administration received ‘alarming intelligence’ regarding a possible escalation in the conflict.
Dawn breaks in Hapatnar, a remote village filled with walnut growers and pony owners.
Naushad Hussain, 28, a taxi driver, wakes early, slips out of the family house into the cool mountain air and heads off to work. It is April 22, a Tuesday, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 30km drive to Pahalgam, a bustling tourist town framed by the Himalayas, takes about half an hour.
It was a pleasant sunny afternoon in Pahalgam, a small, picturesque tourist destination in Indian-administered Kashmir. Locals were mingling, and sightseers relaxing. That was until several gunmen emerged from a nearby forest. They quickly confronted the tourists and sought to determine whether they were Muslims or not by asking them to recite an Islamic verse. Those who failed the test were shot dead. Twenty-six people were killed in total before the gunmen melted away, back into the forest.
The ceasefire between India and Pakistan appeared to have been violated, mere hours after both sides agreed to pause hostilities.
Multiple blasts were heard in Srinagar and several other parts of Kashmir on Saturday. It was initially unclear where the explosions came from or where they were being directed.
Security officials in Pakistan accused India of violating the ceasefire after explosions were heard in Peshawar and Karachi and projectiles were spotted in the Gujrat area of Punjab
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The apparent involvement of Chinese aircraft in shooting down a Western-made Rafale has ricocheted through defence circles
At 4am on Wednesday, China’s ambassador to Pakistan hurried to the foreign ministry to celebrate an unprecedented military success.
Pakistan had reportedly shot down several Indian aircraft in the hours before using Chinese J-10C fighter jets.
“Our jet fighters… shot down three Indian Rafales, three Rafales [that] are French,” Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, told parliament on Wednesday. “Ours were J-10C.”
Last week, militants killed 26 civilians, mostly tourists, in Kashmir, the disputed region between India and Pakistan.
The killing of 26 civilians would be bad news anywhere in the world, but in Kashmir, it could be far worse. Tensions between the two nations have always been high, ever since they were split up in the partitioning of British India in 1947, but in recent years they have increased still further.
Kashmir is often at the centre of those tensions. Although formally part of India, it has been granted special, largely autonomous status since partition, but in 2019 India effectively ended that, leading Pakistan to downgrade diplomatic relations and suspend trade.
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India JUST carried out ballistic missile attacks on multiple sites in Pakistan, hitting infrastructure in Pakistan and Occupied Kashmir. #india #paksitan #war #OperationSindoor #Military pic.twitter.com/Cexxf5znK8
— ON THIS DAY (@OTD_FACT) May 6, 2025
At least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Pakistan declared the strikes to be an “act of war” and claimed it had shot down five Indian air force jets and a drone. “Pakistan gives a befitting reply to India,” said the Pakistan government in a statement.
India had accused Pakistan of involvement in an attack targeting Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month that killed 26 people. “We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable,” said the Indian defence ministry.
A war between India and Pakistan could soon spill onto British streets
“India and Pakistan have clever generals, diplomats and politicians who will be able to call any conflict quits. On Britain’s streets, there are fewer restraints available. We had race riots involving Muslims and Hindus in Britain in recent years. They’re always in the offing, always ready to break out.”
Loud explosions have been heard in several places in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir as India said it had attacked “terrorist infrastructure” in nine sites and Pakistan vowed to respond to the strikes.
Pakistani officials said that a child was killed and two other people injured in missile strikes early on Wednesday.
After the explosions, power was blacked out in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, witnesses said.
Ministry of Defence, Government of India: India has launched #OperationSindoor, a precise and restrained response to the barbaric #PahalgamTerrorAttack that claimed 26 lives, including one Nepali citizen. Focused strikes were carried out on nine #terrorist infrastructure sites in… pic.twitter.com/sCGgvxJDPy
— Rahul Shivshankar (@RShivshankar) May 6, 2025
Get ready for the riots in Toronto.
Pakistan has ‘credible intelligence’ of Indian strike within 36 hours
Pakistan has warned that India is planning a strike on its territory within hours, as tensions continue to escalate between the two nuclear powers.
The Pakistani minister for information and broadcasting, Attaullah Tarar, said early on Wednesday that Islamabad had “credible intelligence” of an imminent Indian strike. He said it could come within 24 to 36 hours.
They’re going to have to impose an imported ethnic conflict marching permit system.
A Pakistan-born Canadian citizen wanted for his alleged role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege has landed in New Delhi after his extradition from the United States.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, arrived at a military airbase outside the Indian capital under heavily armed guard late on Thursday, and will be held in detention to face trial.
India accuses Rana of being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation, and of helping to plot the attacks.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out searches at eight locations in Bengaluru in connection with a foreign exchange violation probe against American billionaire George Soros founded Open Society Foundations and its impact investment arm Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), people familiar with the development said.
The searches, for potential violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act or FEMA, were carried out at NGOs and other firms funded by OSF and SEDF, and at Aspada Investments Private Limited, which is the holding company of SEDF. ED said Aspada is the investment advisor/fund manager of SEDF in India and is wholly owned subsidiary of a Mauritius-based entity.
h/t Mauser
A south Edmonton split-level with a brick facade and a spruce out front is the unlikely Canadian headquarters of the Indian conglomerate the Srivastava Group.
Run by a New Delhi family, the company claims to have offices in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, where it owns newspaper and oil and gas businesses.
But Canadian national security officials have alleged the Srivastava Group and its senior executive have also been involved in more secretive activities.
No one likes Justin.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s foreign minister who has tangled repeatedly with Canada, said last year that many countries were nervous after the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
But he said India was “not one of them.”
This week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Trump in the White House, following a recent visit by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu — a close friend of Modi’s.
