Toronto: Having paid little heed to India’s appeals to reign in the activities of Khalistani separatists on its soil, Canada came to realise what these people are capable of when they brazenly targeted their adopted country’s foreign affairs minister Anita Anand on Friday.

Secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) staged protests outside Indian missions in Canada on Friday. Among the posters on display during the protest outside India’s Consulate was one showing Anand and late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This was juxtaposed to a tableau showing Indira’s assassination. Another poster depicted Anand’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her visit to India earlier this month. ADVERTISEMENT

Anand was carrying out Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s policy of

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