Trudeau’s Canada: Home to targeted assassinations, militancy, and terror harboring
By: Brahmanya Ks
Tags: Balochistan, Assassination, Justin Trudeau, Karima Baloch, Canada

The poster boy of western liberal ideology, Canada’s Barak Obama, the man with charming blue eyes, not less than a Hollywood figure for his admirers, Justin Trudeau the Canadian prime minister’s cuffs, are stained with a 37-year-old woman’s blood.

Left: Karima Baloch Photo: (AFP)|Right: Justin Trudeau Photo: (AFP)

Karima Baloch is an activist leader of BSO(Balochistan Students Organization) campaigning for the liberation of Balochistan from Pakistan, and she is a critic of human rights abuse in Pakistan. She was also figured in BBC’s world’s top 100 inspirational and influential women in 2016. She took refuge in Canada in 2016 after dodging multiple assassination attempts from the Pakistani army and ISI its premier intelligence agency. She felt Canada being a forward democracy would value law & order unlike, her medieval and barbaric systemed home country. Believing in Canada’s sovereign values turned out to be her only mistake.

Mehrab, also known as Karima Baloch went missing on 20th December in Toronto and her body has been found two days later near a lakeshore at Harbourfront in Toronto. Since 2006 thousands of Baloch activists have been abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Pakistani government and its intelligence apparatus. On 23rd April this year similar abduction and death of Pakistani journalist and Baloch activist Sajid Hussain Baloch in Stockholm, Sweden. Sajid‘s body has been discovered on the banks of a river. Before her disappearance, Karima received several death threats and hate messages. Lateef Johar a friend of Karima said to the Associated Press that she received some anonymous threats stating they would send her a “Christmas gift” and “teach her a lesson”.

The case is clear, it is a cold-blooded extrajudicial targeted killing with evidence ranging from threats to Karima, suspicious disappearance, and drowning. It is a surgically executed operation by the ISI, any highly trained hit squad would leave little to no physical evidence. But the Toronto police termed it as “non-criminal death” and “didn’t find any suspicious circumstances”. The abundance of circumstantial evidence present, and the significance of the case, and Canadian police ignoring the elephant in the room shows clear signs of a government cover-up.

Canada has its skeletons in the closet ranging from terror financing through its charity institutions, allowing FTF (Foreign terrorist fighters) into Canada, Financing and managing the Khalistani terror network through its Sikh political & immigrant network. Internal government documents obtained by Globalnews suggest Canada has a secret program to allow and facilitate “high profile” people accused of war crimes, human rights violations to enter Canada on special “public policy” entry visas who otherwise are categorized as a “national security risk”.

Source: Immigration, Refugees and citizenship Canada annual reports to Parliament, 2011–2018

Since the 1980s, Canada has been the headquarters of the Sikh terror network “Khalistani movement”. The Khalistani movement started as a separatist movement for the cause of creating a Sikh Punjab nation. They are the key perpetrators in armed hostage attacks, the assassination of an Indian prime minister, and the bombing of a passenger aircraft. Indian security forces eliminated the Khalistani network and broke their operations in India. But Canada continues to be a safe-haven to the network, and some Khalistani sympathizers are MP’s in the Canadian parliament. In 2018, Trudeau’s visit to India led to a diplomatic storm in the bilateral ties when Jaspal Atwal a Khalistani terrorist, flew in with Trudeau and was invited to the dinner reception. The Khalistani terror network’s roots in Canadian political and governance systems have been deep-rooted. A report named “2018 Public report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada” mentioned Sikh extremism as one of the top five threats to Canada. Later Trudeau removed any reference to Sikh extremism in the updated report. Another report “Terrorist financing assessment 2018” highlighted, the risk of Canada being a safe-heaven to terror financing.

“Internationally, Canada continues to face exposure to terrorist financing risks, in particular in the Middle East and South Asia. Terrorist groups and their supporters use a wide variety of means to finance their activities and further their goals.” — | 2018 Public report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada “Canada is financially exposed to these jurisdictions via its large Afghan and Pakistani diaspora, as evidenced by the substantial value of funds remitted to and from their home countries. Any fund flows from Canada to regions controlled or influenced by terrorist organizations are potentially at risk of being taxed or diverted and used to support these terrorist organizations.” — |Terrorist financing assessment 2018

Canada is turning out to be a pivot point for global terror financing. In an internal audit by the CRA (Canada revenue agency) its auditors found out INSA(Islamic Society of North America) a charitable organization used its resources to fund the terror group Hizbul Mujahedeen to conduct terror ops in Kashmir. It took four long years to take any action by the Trudeau government after the revelation. In 2018 a report by IPR mentioned a plan of the Canadian government to fund 23$ million into two private welfare organizations as a part of the government’s attempts to condemn Islamophobia and systemic racism. Both these organizations were having links with terror groups, and one of them IRW (Islamic relief worldwide) which was listed as a terror financer by many countries due to its links with “Hamas” — a Palestinian terror group. According to a report published by the Gatestone Institute, the number of Canadians who went to fight for ISIS stood at 180 but in a county with population ten times larger, only 129 Americans left the country to join ISIS. Also, the report mentions Trudeau’s comments to a gathering of Islamist front groups goes on as “He shared their beliefs, their set of values and vision”. He made his stance clear in welcoming ISIS fighters who return to Canada and believe they are “powerful voice for deradicalization”. He should be delusional in believing that people who believed and followed acts that are inhuman even for the medieval ages will be instrumental in deradicalizing the rest of society. Trudeau’s Liberal party retracted a law that strips off terror convicts their Canadian citizenship. A British Canadian citizen Jack Lets also known as “Jihadi Jack” has been stripped of his citizenship by Britain while his Citizenship in Canada is preserved as per the tweaked law. Appeasement of race, religion, and nationality for opportunistic political gain stands a priority for Justin Trudeau. Canada’s stature plummeted from being instrumental in the war on terror in 2001 to a state of being a harlot of appeasement.

Around 65% of Canadian Muslims voted for the Liberal Party in the 2015 election, according to a poll survey conducted by the Environics Institute. One in every five Canadian citizens is an immigrant, and between the years 2011 to 2016, Pakistani immigrants turned out to be the fifth-largest immigrant group. Islam and Sikhism are two of the fastest-growing religions in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. This minority but a substantial share of the electorate is needed for the Liberal party to win any upcoming elections.

Source : Immigration and Diversity: Population Projections for Canada and its Regions, 2011 to 2036

Source : Environics Institute

Justin Trudeau doesn’t leave any stone unturned to appease his vote bank. He made statements supporting the protests taking place in India against CAA (Citizenship amendment act) in support of the Muslim community and farm bills in support of the Sikh community. This man’s hypocrisy knows no bounds, imagine being head of state where your own country is abetting a gross violation of human rights but the plays an act of supporting rights in other sovereign nations which has uncompromised political and legal systems, unlike Canada.

Left : Protest in Lahore Photo: (AFP) | Right: Protest outside Toronto HQ Photo: (Faiza Amin)

The ire caused due to Karima’s killing is spreading like wildfire from Quetta to Lahore and from Karachi to Toronto, and is here to stay even if Trudeau attempts insensitive cover-ups and suicide theories. This state-sponsored assassination is turning out to be bitter for the Pakistani government. The Pakistani government’s attempt to suppress the voice of dissidents using targeted assassination turned counter-productive. Movements associated with the liberation of Balochistan are quickly picking up momentum, with many organizations and human rights groups recognizing the Pakistani government’s atrocities in Balochistan. There is a huge uproar among the Pakistani public, Twitter hashtags #Justiceforkarimabaloch and #Statekilledkarimabaloch were among the top five trends in Pakistan.

Between all this outrage what amuses is the utter silence of the west in light of the whole situation. Some European countries, who epitomize themselves as torchbearers of Human rights, and the United States being so-called “global police” in preserving human rights displayed absolute numbness. Recognizing any involvement of Pakistan in the assassination will highlight fissures in the Canadian legal and security systems and leading to further international scrutiny with Canada in the center of it all. Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death and cover-up left enough lessons for the world. The CIA has concluded that the whole of Operation-Khashoggi was executed by the top brass of the kingdom using its elite hit squad called “Tiger Squad”, but in contrast, the Whitehouse scrambled to support the cover-up and rejected to accept the involvement of the kingdom. US President Donald Trump said, “I saved his ass” referring to Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, in one of his interviews for a book. We cannot expect the west to do anything different in the case of Karima’s assassination, where trade, political, and strategic interests can get impacted.

Karima Baloch a champion defender of human rights for Balochistan is killed in cold blood, it is not anymore about Canada’s reputation nor Trudeau’s Pakistani vote bank. The international community should put up pressure on the Canadian government, to initiate an independent inquiry and bring to light the facts associated with the case. It should be made clear that Her Majesty’s Government of Canada can be in bed with whoever she needs but it should not be at the cost of innocent dissidents.