For more than four decades India steadfastly maintained that the bombing of Air India Flight 182, popularly known as the Kanishka tragedy, was the handiwork of Khalistani extremists operating from Canada. That position, often dismissed or treated with caution in Ottawa, now stands vindicated. Forty-one years after the mid-air explosion over the Irish coast killed all 329 persons on board, including 268 Canadian citizens of Indian origin and a large number of children, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has, for the first time, acknowledged the involvement of Khalistani terrorists in the outrage. The admission, though belated, marks a significant shift in Canada’s official understanding of what remains the worst act of terrorism in its history until........

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