Mainstream WeeklyOctober 25, 2024
Having now disowned former R&AW official Vikash Yadav, allegedly involved in the plot to kill Canadian-US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, stating that he is no more an employee of the Indian Government, there is apprehension in informed circles whether India may hand over Vikash Yadav to the US to be tried in the US for the alleged conspiracy.
In a quid pro quo, India seems to be striking a deal with the US government to secure the extradition of Tahawwur Husain Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian citizen, currently in US prison, charged with financing the 26/11/2008 Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror attack in Mumbai causing immense loss of life including that of Maharashtra Police SIT chief Hemant Karkare and his dedicated team of officers, apart from many others killed in that attack.
In September, 2023, US President Joe Biden came to New Delhi to attend the G20 summit hosted by India. Also came on the same invitation Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who too took up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the killing of Canadian Sikh citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada by killers allegedly at the instance of Indian establishment. That issue has boiled into a diplomatic impasse between the two countries now. But let it be for the time being. We