Following the path of Canada, Pakistan has also made absurd allegations against India.
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Muhammad Cyrus Sajjad Qazi on Thursday said Islamabad has credible evidence of links between Indian agents and the killing of two Pakistani nationals in Sialkot and Rawalakot.
Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had linked the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar to Indian agents, which sparked a lot of controversy.
India had rejected those allegations of Canada. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Qazi was referring to the death of two Pakistanis in the year 2023, identified as Shahid Latif and Muhammad Riaz.
India has completely rejected these allegations of Pakistan and termed them as false and malicious anti-India propaganda. It has also been said that Pakistan will reap whatever it sows.
Randhir Jaiswal, the official spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Ministry, said, “We have seen media reports regarding some comments of the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan.
This is Pakistan’s latest attempt to spread false and malicious anti-India propaganda. As the world knows, Pakistan has long been a center of terrorism, organized crime and illegal international activities.
India and several other countries have publicly warned Pakistan that it will be consumed by its culture of terror and violence.
Pakistan will reap whatever it sows. Blaming others for one’s misdeeds can neither be a justification nor a solution.”
According to Pakistani website ‘The Dawn’, while addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary said that India is carrying out a campaign of extra-territorial and extra-judicial killings inside Pakistan.
He said, “Indian agents used technology and safe havens on foreign soil to carry out killings in Pakistan. “They recruited, financed and supported criminals, terrorists and suspected civilians to play a role in these killings.”
The Pakistani Foreign Secretary said that Indian media and social media accounts also immediately claimed these killings and glorified them as successful retaliation against India’s enemies.
He said the potential killers were recruited using social media, using fake Daesh accounts. “Teams of financiers, spotters and killers were employed in the operation,” Qazi said. He said exit plans were also deliberately developed to obscure all possible tracks.
Giving information about the murders of the two, the Pakistani Foreign Secretary said that on October 11, 2023, Shahid Latif was murdered outside a mosque in Sialkot.
Detailed investigation revealed that Yogesh Kumar, an Indian agent based in a third country, masterminded the murder. Qazi said Kumar had recruited Muhammad Umair, a laborer in a third country, to contact local criminals in Pakistan to locate and kill Shahid Latif.
“After some failed attempts, Umair was personally sent to Pakistan to carry out the assassination,” the foreign secretary said. He said that Umair was successful in killing Shahid Latif.”
While talking about the second murder, the Pakistani Foreign Secretary said that another Indian agent was involved in the murder of a Pakistani man, identified as Muhammad Riaz, at a mosque in Rawalakot on September 8, 2023. He was murdered inside during Namaz.
“Law enforcement agencies tracked down the killer, Muhammad Abdullah Ali, and arrested him while taking off at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on September 15, 2023,” Qazi said.
Interrogation revealed that Ali was recruited and guided by Indian agents Ashok Kumar Anand and Yogesh Kumar.
He said Indian agents used the social media platform Telegram to recruit Ali. Ali received payment and was provided with arms and ammunition. Qazi said that the hearing of the case is going on in the court.