Taking on the world.

"Eight Indian employees of the Al Dahra company have been sentenced to death penalty by the Court of First Instance of Qatar on Thursday (26 October). The Ministry of External Affairs in a statement expressed deep shock regarding this incident while it awaits detailed judgement." ET. "On August 30 last year, Qatar's intelligence agency picked up the men from their homes in the dead of night." "Since then, they have been kept in solitary confinement, denied bail, and now sentenced to death. All along the Qatari authorities did not specify the reason for the detention to the families of the eight men. Dahra Global Technologies was involved in the training of Qatari Navy." ET. "Qatari State Security, the kingdom's state intelligence agency, is claimed to have intercepted electronic communications establishing that the naval officers were spying on the submarine program," and, apparently, passing the information on to Israel. TN. Of course, Pakistan must have its dirty hand in this nefarious conspiracy against India. "While the Indian government is engaging diplomatically with the Qatari counterparts over the death sentence to eight former Indian Navy officials who were working there, the speculations are high that Pakistan might be behind the issue. In the last year, Pakistani army officials and their Qatar counterparts held several meetings and one of them just days before announcing the verdict." Zee. QED. If Indians are crowing about killing Pakistani assets within Pakistan, retaliation should not be unexpected. "Shahid Latif, a member of the proscribed terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), was the key conspirator behind the 2016 attack on an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot. He was shot dead by unknown assailants in Pakistan's Sialkot. Latif's shooting was one of the several cases of India's enemies meeting their end in the countries they sought safe haven in." India Today. One such was Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was shot dead in Canada in June. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that there was reason to believe that Indian agents were behind the killing of the Canadian citizen within Canada. CBC. In response, "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was 'high on drugs' and his plane was 'full of cocaine', former diplomat Deepak Vohra garnered attention for an allegation." Mint. "The more one ponders over Justin Trudeau's hitjob against India, the more it becomes obvious that he may not be the only player in the sinister game to corner New Delhi." wrote Utpal Kumar. "One wonders if Trudeau was hoodwinked by American agencies which, as per NYT, provided Canada with some information on Nijjar's killing." Canada was asked to withdraw 41 diplomats from India, which it did on 20 October, and also "temporarily suspended visa and in-person consular services in Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Mumbai." ET. "The world of diplomacy has hidden chambers, which is why it is difficult to be judgmental about the expulsion of Canadian diplomats from India." "The thinking is yet to be spelt out but it serves to curb Canada's intelligence on Indian soil," former Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar. God help. Nearly the whole world seems to be against India. Actually, they don't need 41 diplomats to spy on India. China is already "monitoring" over 10,000 individuals and organisations. The Wire. Much cheaper to "monitor" India's wholesale surveillance apparatus. Everything is available.