Expert fears escalation in Canada-India spat

Trudeau said on September 18 that Ottawa had credible intelligence linking Indian agents to the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver, prompting an angry reaction from New Delhi, which denies the allegation. Michael Kugelman, Director of South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, told Reuters that it is unusual for a head of government to go public with such explosive allegations, and that India's reaction is what "one would have expected".