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This photo provided by Jasjit Singh shows the Sikh victim of a stabbing attack at a Wyoming rest area is pictured in a Casper, Wy., hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (Jasjit Singh via AP)

U.S. Sikhs on edge after knife attack on trucker in Wyoming

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, left, and Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong meet at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian foreign minister raises allegations of India targeting Sikhs in Canada

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Policemen guard a road leading to the Canadian high commission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 after India and Canada expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Canada’s foreign minister says India’s remaining diplomats are on notice not to harm Canadians

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, walks past India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Raj Ghat, Mahatma Gandhi's cremation site, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, Sept. 10, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

India denies Canadian allegation that it uses mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

FILE -People sit on the lawn of the the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, below a picture of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India expelling each other’s diplomats?

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme participates in a news conference at RCMP National Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontaio, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada and India expel each other’s diplomats in escalating dispute over a 2023 assassination

By Rob Gillies and Aijaz Hussain and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

In this June 2023 photo taken by an undercover agent and provided by the U.S. Attorney's office, an undercover agent posing as a hitman, left, holds money received as a partial advance payment for murder during a transaction in New York. U.S. officials became aware in the spring of a plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American citizen who advocates for the creation of a sovereign Sikh state. Under the indictment, Nikhil Gupta, 52, an Indian national, faces charges including murder for hire. Gupta, was extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States to face charges of murder for hire and conspiracy to commit murder for hire, Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek said on Monday, June 17, 2024. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP, file)

Indian national charged with plotting murder-for-hire of Sikh activist is extradited to U.S.

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What to know about Sikh independence movement following U.S. accusation that activist was targeted

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau for a ceremonial welcome in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. India restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals, an Indian foreign ministry official said Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, two months after Canada alleged India was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada. A diplomatic spat erupted between the two countries after Trudeau said in September that there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in suburban Vancouver in western Canada. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India restores e-visa services for Canadians. The move could ease diplomatic tensions

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. India has expelled a senior Canadian diplomat and is accusing Canada of interfering in its internal affairs. The expulsion Tuesday came a day after Trudeau said Canada was investigating allegations India was connected to the assassination of Sikh independence advocate Hardeep Singh Niijar in Canada in June, and expelled an Indian diplomat. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen

By Ashok Sharma and Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

A photograph of late temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar is seen on a banner outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, where temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the temple parking lot in June. Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Who was Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh activist whose killing has divided Canada and India?

By Krutika Pathi and David Cohen - Associated Press

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a statement in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Modi government expels a Canadian diplomat after Trudeau says India was involved in Sikh’s killing

By Krutika Pathi and Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reflected in a mirror as holds a press conference in Singapore on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. Canada has expelled a top Indian diplomat on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, as it investigates what Prime Minister Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada expels Indian diplomat as it investigates India’s possible link to Sikh activist’s slaying

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

NYPD to allow Sikhs to wear turbans, grow beards

Associated Press

Hate crime charges filed in attack on Sikh man

Associated Press

The 500,000 Sikhs who live in America are often misidentified as terrorists by fellow citizens who know little or nothing about the traditional faith, a new study revealed. In this photo, members of the Sikh community hold a candlelight vigil outside Newtown High School before an interfaith vigil with President Barack Obama, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Sikhs in America still victims of misunderstanding, prejudice, study shows

By Mark A. Kellner - Deseret News

FILE- In this Jan. 1, 2014 file photograph, an Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy dip in the sacred pond at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. The British government has admitted it advised India before the deadly 1984 raid on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 that British military advice had only a &quot;limited impact&quot; on the operation. (AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal,file)

Britain says it had role in 1984 India temple raid

By RAPHAEL SATTER and KATY DAIGLE - Associated Press