NEW DELHI: As a result of the recent attacks by Khalistani gangs on the Indian high commission in London last month, India is rumoured to have halted trade talks with the United Kingdom.
India is said to have voiced its anger with the UK's refusal to denounce the incident, which happened on March 19, as per reports.
The Times reported, citing official sources, that "Indians don't want to speak about trade until they get a very public demonstration of rejection of Khalistan fanaticism in the UK."
The reports also stated that the UK wants to resume talks and that in order to do so, it intends to take strong action against the Khalistani and Sikh extremist groups that carried out the assaults.
The incident took place on March 19, when demonstrators holding "Khalistan" banners staged a protest outside the Indian high commission and removed an Indian flag from the first-floor balcony of the structure to condemn recent police action in Punjab.
India strongly objected to the UK government, and the matter was brought up in the House of Commons. Following his condemnation of the "unacceptable" acts of violence and promise to conduct a security assessment at the Indian post in London, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly made the remark.
Since the Income Tax authorities raided the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai earlier this year in response to the British broadcaster's programme on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that highlighted his role in the post-Godhra rioting in 2002, relations between the two countries have been tense.
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