India's foreign spy agency R&AW 'potentially' behind assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada

An assassination on Canadian soil, if confirmed, would mark a step change in the R&AW’s audacity.

India’s spy agency dubbed it Operation Hornet. As Abdul Khan went into his house in Lahore, Pakistan, in June 1987, he was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle.

The hit against the London-based Pakistani national was the result of months of planning by India’s foreign intelligence service the Research & Analysis Wing, according to a history of the agen…