Indian intelligence agency involved in the killings in Pakistan : The Guardian
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London/New Delhi – “The Indian Government assassinated individuals in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, according to Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives who spoke to The Guardian,” published British newspaper ‘The Guardian’. Responding to this, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said, “Such killings abroad do not align with India’s foreign policy.” The Ministry of External Affairs denounced these allegations as baseless and malicious propaganda against India.
In the report of ‘The Guardian’, it is mentioned,
1. Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019. The agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), is directly controlled by the office of India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in elections later this month.
2. Since the Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, the Indian intelligence agency RAW has carried out 20 targeted assassinations. India considers all of them as enemies. Recently, India has been accused of killing Sikhs in Canada and US. This is the first time Indian intelligence personnel have discussed the alleged operations in Pakistan.
3. According to Pakistani investigators, these deaths were orchestrated by Indian intelligence sleeper-cells mostly operating out of the United Arab Emirates. The rise in killings in 2023 was credited to the increased activity of these cells, which are accused of paying millions of rupees to local criminals or poor Pakistanis to carry out the assassinations. In 2023, 15 people were assassinated, most of them were shot at close range by unknown gunmen.
4. The Indian intelligence operative told us that to conduct such operations approval from the highest level of Government is needed. India had drawn inspiration from intelligence agencies such as Israel’s the Mossad and Russia’s KGB, which have been linked to extrajudicial killings on foreign soil.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s response to ‘The Guardian’ report We will enter Pakistan to kill terrorists “If terrorists try to disturb peace in India or carry out terror activities, we will give them a befitting reply and if they run away to Pakistan, we will enter Pakistan to kill them,” such a response was given by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to the question asked by the journalists about the report in ‘The Guardian’ about India. Singh further said, “India has the strength to take stern action against cross-border terrorism and Pakistan has started realising it. India always wants to maintain good relations with its neighbours. Look at the history. Till date, we neither attacked any country in the world nor tried to occupy an inch of land of any country. (India has not even tried to reclaim control of its territories seized by the enemy, this is also a fact – Editor) But if someone shows India angry eyes again and again, comes to India and tries to promote terrorist activities, we will not spare them.” |
| Editorial Perspective
The media houses from Canada, US, and now Britain are deliberately targeting and pressurising India. It is worth pointing out that this western block is indirectly supporting the Jihadi and Khalistani terrorists. India must act tough against these countries. |