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Nijjar was also associated with Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), and spearheaded the group's Khalistan Referendum 2020 campaign. [4] On 18 June 2023, Nijjar was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Sikh temple (Gurdwara) in British Columbia.
On 18 June 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in the parking lot of a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia. Nijjar was allegedly the head of two pro-Khalistan organisations in Canada, and had been accused by the Indian Government of orchestrating targeted killings in India, for which it unsuccessfully sought his extradition. [159]
U.S. and Canadian intelligence agencies have linked the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the 2023 assassination of Sikh independence leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Multiple ...
Meanwhile, on June 13, 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar - a prominent advocate of the Khalistan movement - was killed by masked gunmen outside a Gurdwara in Surrey. His death immediately aroused suspicions in the local Sikh community that the government of India was involved. On September 18, Trudeau announced that investigators were pursuing ...
Activists of the Dal Khalsa Sikh organisation, a pro-Khalistan group, stage a demonstration demanding justice for Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed in June 2023 near Vancouver ...
In May, three Indian men were charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in Nijjar’s killing. Earlier this year, the houses of two Sikh activists were hit by gunfire in ...
According to The Globe and Mail, the early 2000s witnessed the declining influence of pro Khalistan Sikhs within Surrey's milieu, and the issue became a taboo.Nijjar, upon being elected head of the temple, set out to lift this taboo and introduced various Khalistan symbols and portraits of Sikh militants within the building.
Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) is a militant outfit of the Khalistan movement.In February 2023, it was designated as a terrorist organization by the Government of India. [1]In May 2023, India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two wanted persons at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, who allegedly were close aides of KTF's Arshdeep Singh, an "individual designated terrorist ...