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UK Media says India has Stopped Trade Deal over Khalistan Issue | India Rejects Claims | By Prashant Dhawan
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2317051.html
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India ‘stops talks on UK trade deal’ after attacks on its embassy in London – report
Report claims India is refusing to re-engage in talks until Rishi Sunak’s government condemns a Sikh separatist movement
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
India has reportedly halted trade negotiations with Britain in response to a perceived lack of action from Rishi Sunak’s government following protests at India’s embassy in London last month.
The Indian government was said to have “disengaged” from talks on a post-Brexit free trade agreement, which are at an advanced stage, until the British government issues a public condemnation of the Sikh separatist movement whose members vandalised the High Commission of India on Aldwych.
An unnamed UK government source was quoted by The Times as saying India “[have] said they don’t want to speak about trade, they don’t want to do trade negotiations because they think it’s part of a wider problem of us not taking the attack against the Indian high commission and the wider Sikh separatist movement seriously”.
Supporters of the Khalistan movement, which calls for the creation of a separate homeland for the Sikh community carved out of India’s Punjab state, pulled down the Indian flag and smashed windows during the protests earlier in March.
“[The] Indians don’t want to talk about trade until they get a very public demonstration of condemnation of Khalistan extremism in the UK,” the source told The Times.
India has denied stalling the talks, with a government source telling The Independent that the report was “baseless”.
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