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Pakistan launched multiple attacks along India's western border, India says

The Indian army also said Pakistani troops had resorted to "numerous cease fire violations." Pakistan denied the accusations.

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A man uses his mobile phone to film debris of shops damaged by cross-border shelling in Lagama village near the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, in Indian Kashmir's Baramulla district, May 9, 2025.
PUNJABI GROCERY store owner Harjap Singh Japhi hangs a flag in support of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement at his shop in Greenwood, Indiana, earlier this year.

US Sikhs fear Modi’s government is going after them - opinion

The Sikhs Reuters spoke to described experiencing online harassment; surveillance at their homes and places of worship; and doxxing.

|ByWA LONE, SARAH N. LYNCH, JORGE GARCIA
A demonstrator uses a microphone as others hold flags and signs as they protest outside India's consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada September 25, 2023.

US, asked about Sikh separatist groups, says it respects free speech

The demand for an independent Sikh state surfaced most prominently in India during a violent insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s and paralyzed the state of Punjab.

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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises to make a statement in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 18, 2023.

Canada accuses New Delhi of Indian-designated Sikh terrorist's murder

Canada said it was "actively pursuing credible allegations" linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia in June.

|ByREUTERS

Attack on Sikh temple in Afghan capital Kabul kills two

A Sikh worshipper and a Taliban fighter were killed following a blast in a car loaded with explosives.

JUNE 18, 2022
ByREUTERS
Afghan Sikh men light the funeral pyre for the victims who were killed during yesterday's attack at Sikh religious complex during a funeral in Kabul, Afghanistan March 26, 2020

Four members of Sikh community among dead in Indianapolis FedEx shooting

Chohan said her grandmother "was gonna work a double so she could have the day off today but decided to just grab her check and go home. She still had her check in her hand when they found her."

APRIL 17, 2021
ByREUTERS
Investigators are on the scene following a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., April 16, 2021.