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India is a perpetrator of foreign interference and espionage, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service claimed in a on Wednesday.

India, China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan were the “main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage” efforts against the North American country, the spy agency stated in its annual report submitted to the country’s Parliament.

“Indian officials, including their Canada-based proxy agents, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians,” alleged the agency. “When these activities are deceptive, clandestine or threatening, they are deemed to be foreign interference.”

India’s Ministry of External Affairs has not commented on the allegations so far. However, it had earlier of foreign interference previously made by Canada.

The intelligence agency claimed that these activities “attempt to steer Canada’s positions into alignment with India’s interests on key issues, particularly with respect to how the Indian government perceives Canada-based supporters of an independent homeland that they call Khalistan”.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service also said that “Khalistani extremists” based in Canada posed a national security threat to the North American country.

The report alleged that politically-motivated violent extremism had manifested since the mid-1980s in the country mainly through Canada-based Khalistani separatists “seeking to use and support violent means to create an independent nation state called...