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New Delhi: On Friday, the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday condemned and rejected allegations that India is killing people in Pakistan as part of a strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil. The report in The Guardian quoted intelligence operatives in India and Pakistan to claim that India’s move was part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil.
After a report by the Guardian this came, where Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives said India’s foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), had ordered killings of terrorists in Pakistan. The MEA denounced the allegations by reiterating an earlier statement that they were “false and malicious anti-India propaganda” and emphasised a previous denial by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who said that targeted killings in other countries were “not the government of India’s policy”.
The report said that Pakistani officials have presented documents about some of the killings, which could not be independently verified. It said that Pakistani officials also claimed that the killings were carried out by sleeper cells of Indian intelligence set up in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Earlier, the US and Canada had accused India of murders and attempted murders on foreign soil.
In September last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that there were “credible allegations” of India’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and a wanted terrorist in India, was shot dead outside a gurdwara in Surrey in June. India rejected the allegation as “absurd”.
The US later claimed to have foiled an attempt to kill another Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The US claimed that Pannun, a US-Canadian citizen, was killed in a conspiracy by an Indian national Nikhil Gupta and an unnamed Indian government official.
