Amid the standoff between India and Bharat over the killing of Canada-based Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the US has slowly and publicly inserted itself as the interlocutor between Ottawa and Delhi. Notably, backchannel talks between Delhi and Ottawa are being explored via Washington DC. This comes even as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is in New York, said it is still a world of “double standards” and countries occupying “positions of influence” are “resisting the pressure to change” and those with “institutional influence or historical influence” have “actually weaponised a lot of those capabilities”.
