India to Consider Resuming Visas for Canadians Pending Diplomatic Safety Progress

India will resume issuing visas to Canadian citizens if it “sees progress” in the safety of its diplomats there, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has said.

India had stopped visa services in September, saying that “security threats” were disrupting work at its missions in Canada.

The two countries are in the midst of a row over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

Ottawa has said earlier that it takes “safety of diplomats very seriously”.

But it has not responded to India’s specific allegations about threats to its diplomats in Canada.