2024-04-06 01:17:51
New Delhi: India has vehemently denied claims of a conspiracy behind the killings in Pakistan. Those claims have been described as ‘false and malicious anti-India propaganda’. This reaction comes in the wake of allegations that India, through its intelligence agency RAW, was involved in about 20 killings in Pakistan since 2020.End the danger before it happens!
According to a report in British newspaper The Guardian, citing Indian and Pakistani intelligence officials, the actions were part of a mission to eliminate terrorists on foreign soil, including targeting Sikh separatists who fuel the Khalistan movement. Was also included. The allegations point to a strategy launched after the Pulwama attack in 2019, aimed at neutralizing the threat of a terror attack before it could develop.
Foreign Minister denied the allegations
According to two Indian intelligence officers, this process of targeting those plotting against India living abroad was influenced by intelligence missions, which had similarities with Mossad and KGB. However, the Ministry of External Affairs has clearly denied these claims. In the report, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s previous statement has been reiterated in which he had said that target killings done abroad are not in accordance with the policy of the Indian government. Pakistani investigators have suggested that the killings were carried out by Indian intelligence sleeper cells, operating primarily from the UAE, employing local criminals or jihadists under false pretenses to carry out the killings.
What’s in the Guardian report?
The Guardian report mentions the murder of Zahid Akhund, better known as Zahoor Mistry. Zahoor is a declared terrorist who hijacked an Air India plane. According to the Guardian, Pakistani documents indicate that a RAW agent is accused of funding the gathering of intelligence on Akhund’s whereabouts and activities over several months. It is claimed that people from Afghanistan were paid huge sums of money to carry out the shootings in Karachi during March 2022. After this attack, he disappeared from there and crossed the border. However, he was later caught by the security agencies of Pakistan.
‘The plan was not made overnight’
A Pakistani official told the Guardian, ‘This policy of Indian agents organizing killings in Pakistan did not develop overnight. We believe that they have worked for about two years to establish these sleeper cells in the UAE which are conducting most of the executions. After that, we started seeing a lot of murders.’
Is Pakistan itself carrying out the killings?
However, a former senior RAW official refuted the claim that the agency was involved in these killings. According to the Guardian, he stressed that such action would not take place without the knowledge of the national security adviser, who would in turn inform the prime minister. Sometimes the agency talks directly to the Prime Minister. He said, ‘I can’t do anything without his approval.’ They believe that these killings were probably carried out by Pakistan.