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Centre refutes allegations on targeted elimination of terrorists in Pakistan

Ministry of External Affairs has denied all these allegations, terming them 'false and malicious anti-India propaganda'

April 5, 2024

Targeted killings in other countries not the Indian government’s policy: S Jaishankar

The Centre has denied allegations in a report by the UK daily, The Guardian, that accused India of conducting targeted killings in Pakistan to eliminate terrorists.

The Ministry of External Affairs has denied all these allegations, terming them ‘false and malicious anti-India propaganda‘.

EAM Dr. S Jaishankar said that targeted killings in other countries were not the Indian government’s policy.

The Ministry’s denial was mentioned in the report by The Guardian, which claims that Delhi “has implemented a policy of targeting those it considers hostile to India”.

The Pakistani government too has been reluctant to reveal all data publicly, given that the killings are those of known terrorists and individuals linked to outlawed militant groups that Pakistan has denied sheltering.

Quoting an un-named Indian official, The Guardian reported that India had drawn inspiration from Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and Russia’s KGB — which have been linked to extrajudicial killings on foreign soil — and the killing of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Claiming that up to 20 such assassinations were carried out by the Indian intelligence agency RAW since the Pulwama attack of 2019, the report mentions that it is based on evidence supplied by Pakistan, which could not be independently verified.

It said Pakistani officials also claimed that the killings were orchestrated by sleeper cells of Indian intelligence established in the UAE.

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