India has denied being behind the targeted killings in Pakistan.
The Indian Foreign Ministry described these allegations as false and anti-India propaganda. In fact, such allegations were made in a report of the British newspaper The Guardian, in which it was said that India is carrying out targeted killings in Pakistan to eliminate terrorists.
As soon as this report came, there was an uproar all over the world. However, India’s Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has already said that it is not the policy of the Indian government to carry out targeted killings in other countries.
The Guardian report claimed that New Delhi has adopted a policy of targeting those whom it considers a threat to India.
According to the report, Pulwama attack took place in 2019. Since then, Indian intelligence agency RAW has carried out 20 such murders.
It said that the facts came to light from evidence received from Pakistan and interviews with intelligence officers from both sides of the border.
The report quoted an unnamed Indian official as saying that India is influenced by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and Russia’s KGB, which have been involved in targeted killings on foreign soil. In 2018, he was linked to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The case of murder of Khalistani separatist Nijjar also heated up.
According to the report, Pakistani officials have also presented evidence regarding some murders. However, these cannot be independently confirmed.
Pakistani officials claimed that the killings were carried out with the help of a sleeper cell of Indian intelligence established in the UAE.
Earlier, the US and Canada have also accused India of being involved in killings and such attempts on foreign soil.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had made a big claim regarding this in September last year. He said that India is suspected to be involved in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and wanted terrorist in India, was shot outside a gurudwara in Surrey in June. However, India rejected this allegation calling it absurd.