A sign outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple, which was the site of the June 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, Canada in June.Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval at the seventh meeting of Brics senior representatives on security issues held in Beijing, on July 28.
While in its immediate neighbourhood, RAW has advanced signal and technical intelligence capabilities, in the West, the agency remains largely dependent on human intelligence for its operations, according to one serving and one former official. Fallout from the Vancouver incident has also raised concerns that RAW will come under greater global monitoring, said Indian intelligence officials and analysts.
Ottawa and Delhi have been in a diplomatic stand-off since Mr Trudeau made his allegations in public. India has suspended the issuance of new visas to Canadian citizens and demanded that Ottawa reduce its diplomatic presence. American law enforcement was warned before the attack that Headley had terrorism ties, according to US media reports.
The large Indian diaspora in countries such as the US, Canada, Britain and Australia is an asset, two officials said. RAW has “long been associated with direct action... including targeted killings and disappearances” in its immediate neighbourhood, said Mr Adrian Levy, co-author of a book on South Asian spy agencies, adding that such actions were arranged via proxies, which gave India deniability.
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