Comment by Riaz Haq on December 30, 2024 at 1:52pm

Ashok Swain:

Modi did everything to defeat Muizzu in the 2023 election in the Maldives by providing men & money but failed. Even RAW had a plan to remove President Muizzu after the election. The Washington Post reports Modi manipulating elections in foreign countries.


https://x.com/ashoswai/status/1873810065469432187?s=61&t=mgTxrm...

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A plot in paradise and India’s struggle for influence in Asia
Secret contacts between Indian agents and politicians in the Maldives over ousting its pro-China leader reflect the growing contest between Asia’s great powers.
By Gerry Shih and Siddharthya Roy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/30/maldives-president-...


In January, after Muizzu had won and taken office, an adviser to the Muizzu family said, a senior RAW intelligence officer at New Delhi’s embassy in Washington explored a plan to overthrow the president with two Indian intermediaries who had political and business contacts in the Maldives. One intermediary was Shirish Thorat, a former Indian police officer who has worked as a private military contractor and who advised Mohamed Nasheed when he was the Maldivian president on how to curb Islamist radicalization. The other was Savio Rodrigues, a publisher based in the Indian state of Goa who previously served as a spokesman for India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Muizzu family adviser provided The Post with surveillance records of phone calls and meetings held by the RAW official and Thorat, who now lives near Washington, but did not explain how the records were obtained.
When contacted by The Post, Thorat and Rodrigues separately confirmed the existence of plans to remove Muizzu but declined to say whether they were working on the Indian government’s behalf. When asked about his meetings with an Indian intelligence officer, Thorat explained that he sometimes paid social visits to friends working at the embassy and said he was not surprised that he had been surveilled, “given my work.”

Comment by Riaz Haq on January 17, 2025 at 5:29pm

India Edges Closer to Acknowledging Role in Plot to Kill American
Government inquiry calls for legal action against unnamed person involved in foiled conspiracy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/india-edges-closer-to-acknowledging...

India inched closer to acknowledging a role in a murder-for-hire plot aimed at an American citizen, with a government panel calling for legal action against a person involved in the matter.

Relations between Washington and New Delhi were strained when federal prosecutors revealed in November 2023 an audacious plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American lawyer who has advocated for carving out a Sikh homeland from India. Prosecutors last year brought murder-for-hire charges against Vikash Yadav, a former official with India’s overseas intelligence service. He remains at large in India.

India didn’t name the person who would face legal action in the statement issued Wednesday, though it noted the person had “earlier criminal links.” A government inquiry panel set up after the American charges were unveiled last year recommended “legal action must be completed expeditiously.”

Before Wednesday’s statement, Indian officials have consistently denied any link to violence directed against American and Canadian citizens. A violent movement to create a Sikh homeland called Khalistan from the Indian state of Punjab once raged in India in the 1980s and 1990s, but was eventually brutally suppressed by Indian police forces. Many Sikhs migrated from Punjab to the U.S. and Canada, where some continued to campaign for the idea of Sikh sovereignty, something the Indian government views as an existential threat.

“This is the closest New Delhi has come to acknowledging some degree of complicity in the alleged plot, even though it didn’t publicly disclose the nature of its findings about the individual in question,” said Michael Kugelman, the director of the Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute.

Comment by Riaz Haq on June 18, 2025 at 2:12pm

Reuters Asia
@ReutersAsia
India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canadian intelligence agency says

https://x.com/ReutersAsia/status/1935367071103103030

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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/india-is-perpetrator-foreign...

TORONTO, June 18 (Reuters) - India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canada's intelligence agency said in a report published on Wednesday, just after India's and Canada's prime ministers vowed to strengthen ties at a global summit hosted by Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held what both sides called productive talks on Tuesday at the G7 summit in Alberta and agreed to reinstate top diplomats they had withdrawn last year.

Comment by Riaz Haq on June 27, 2025 at 9:42am

Tejasswi Prakash
@Tiju0Prakash
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, an official U.S. Congressional body, holding a hearing on Modi government's role in global assassination plots marks a new low for our diplomacy and democracy.

🔹 Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed in Canada.
🔹 Gurpatwant Singh Pannun assassination attempt in New York.
🔹 India is now clubbed with authoritarian regimes practicing transnational repression.

Instead of building India's moral and democratic image globally, Modi government is:

Weaponizing intelligence agencies for political killings abroad.

Shaming 1.4 billion Indians on international forums.

Turning our republic into a rogue state.

Nationalism is not killing critics abroad. It’s upholding law, democracy & dignity.
Modi's foreign policy is no longer a “masterstroke,” it’s becoming a global embarrassment.

https://x.com/Tiju0Prakash/status/1938479437139292167

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