Pakistan has said it has credible evidence that Indian agents carried out two assassinations on Pakistani soil, and drawn comparisons to the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada.
In a press briefing on Thursday, the foreign secretary, Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, said India was running a “sophisticated and sinister” campaign of “extraterritorial and extrajudicial killings” inside Pakistan.
He said: “Indian agents used technology and safe havens on foreign soil to commit assassinations in Pakistan. They recruited, financed and supported criminals, terrorists and unsuspecting civilians to play defined roles in these assassinations.”
The accusations add fuel to claims that the Indian government has been carrying out targeted attacks against dissidents in foreign countries. Earlier this year the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said there were “credible allegations” linking Indian intelligence agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh activist who was killed in Canada in June. India denied the accusations as “absurd”.
The US made similar accusations against India, accusing Indian agents of directing an attempted assassination plot against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a New York-based lawyer and prominent Sikh activist, which was foiled by US agents. The Indian government has said it is investigating these allegations.
The Indian government had deemed Nijjar and Pannun to be terrorists connected to the Khalistani movement, which fights for an independent state for Sikhs in Punjab and is outlawed in India. Both had been very vocal in stirring up diaspora support for the Khalistani movement.
At the briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Qazi said there were similarities between these alleged assassination plots and those that he said took place in Pakistan.
“I see a modus operandi quite similar to the killing in Canada,” he said. “It was done at the behest of Indian government. We have the passport details of both Indian agents who orchestrated the killings on Pakistani soil.”
He added: “Clearly the Indian network of extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings has become a global phenomenon.”
India and Pakistan are arch-rivals and India has long accused Pakistan of giving a safe haven to terrorists, in particular militants responsible for violence in the disputed region of Kashmir, which has been home to a long-running insurgency with an allegiance to Pakistan.
Qazi said the government had evidence to show direct links between Indian agents and the murders of two Pakistani nationals, Muhammad Riaz in September and Shahid Latif in October last year. Riaz was shot dead while praying at a mosque in Rawalakot and Latif was killed outside a mosque in Sialkot.
An investigation by Pakistani agencies into Latif’s killing found that “an Indian agent based in a third country orchestrated the assassination”, Qazi said.
Similarly, after Pakistani authorities arrested the man accused of carrying out the murder of Riaz, he allegedly revealed that he had been recruited and guided by two Indian agents.
Qazi said the murders were orchestrated by Indian intelligence using a “sophisticated international set-up” spread over several countries, and that social media was used to recruit teams of financiers, locaters and assassins within Pakistan and outside to carry out the murders. He claimed Pakistani authorities had evidence of transactions linking the killings to an Indian agent.
He said investigations into other incidents were continuing. Calling the alleged killings “completely unacceptable”, Qazi said India needed to be held accountable.
“India must be held accountable internationally for its blatant violation of international law,” he said. “India’s assassination of Pakistani nationals on Pakistani soil is a violation of its sovereignty and a breach of the UN charter.”
Modhi straight wildin.
Pot calling the kettle black. Pakistan should be relieved that all India does is take care of the terrorists aimed towards them.Bleeding India with thousand cuts strategy will only take you so far. Thank your Gods that India didn’t wreck your sorry ass country after Mumbai terror attack or there wouldn’t be any Pakistan to talk about.
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Maybe India could stop murdering people on other countries?
Well, the Indians are killing people in Canada and tried to in the U.S. so I’m inclined to believe Pakistan.
Cue the flood of Indians saying ‘we would never do that’ and ‘I’m glad we did that he deserved it’ in the same thread.
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India isn’t a trustworthy ally. Better off the west cuts them off
So. What.
Pakistan also is linked to over 8294 Indian and middle eastern and American and eu deaths in the past 5 years funding terrorism… ding ding ding according to the BBC and Al whatever news from Kuwait that is who they went after. At least unlike Pakistan where they killed mostly civilians going after terrorist in Iran like a week or 2 ago which at the time news didnt cover till now. I’d rather have these kinds of isolated incidences going after only terroist without bombing an entire fucking building. We have seen enough of that between Israel and Palestine, America, and Iraq. Etc
Good. Terrorists must be eliminated
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PKMKB in simple terms
Only 2? I am disappointed with this.
The country was responsible for double digit militancy incidents in just 2023. This is a very subdued response.
There are so many terrorists living, funded and trained out of Pakistan. The existence of Pakistani terrorism is detrimental to the security of the region and the world.
Tale as old as time.
Didn’t the US also assassinate a few folks in Pakistan? Hopefully we paid the government off to not say anything about it.
Did they say the same when Bin laden was killed as well
Pakistani here. The intelligence agencies have lots of control over information flow and have big budgets. If something like this is happening, then some people are not doing their jobs properly. My taxes are going to waste, in yet another channel.
Even if this shit is true, the media is riding a narrative to hide this failure. It’s fashionable to blame India for killings instead of fixing internal problems.
Cue the rush of Indians spamming everywhere with their bs takes.
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Pakistan has said it has credible evidence that Indian agents carried out two assassinations on Pakistani soil, and drawn comparisons to the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada.
In a press briefing on Thursday, the foreign secretary, Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, said India was running a “sophisticated and sinister” campaign of “extraterritorial and extrajudicial killings” inside Pakistan.
He said: “Indian agents used technology and safe havens on foreign soil to commit assassinations in Pakistan. They recruited, financed and supported criminals, terrorists and unsuspecting civilians to play defined roles in these assassinations.”
The accusations add fuel to claims that the Indian government has been carrying out targeted attacks against dissidents in foreign countries. Earlier this year the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said there were “credible allegations” linking Indian intelligence agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh activist who was killed in Canada in June. India denied the accusations as “absurd”.
The US made similar accusations against India, accusing Indian agents of directing an attempted assassination plot against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a New York-based lawyer and prominent Sikh activist, which was foiled by US agents. The Indian government has said it is investigating these allegations.
The Indian government had deemed Nijjar and Pannun to be terrorists connected to the Khalistani movement, which fights for an independent state for Sikhs in Punjab and is outlawed in India. Both had been very vocal in stirring up diaspora support for the Khalistani movement.
At the briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Qazi said there were similarities between these alleged assassination plots and those that he said took place in Pakistan.
“I see a modus operandi quite similar to the killing in Canada,” he said. “It was done at the behest of Indian government. We have the passport details of both Indian agents who orchestrated the killings on Pakistani soil.”
He added: “Clearly the Indian network of extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings has become a global phenomenon.”
India and Pakistan are arch-rivals and India has long accused Pakistan of giving a safe haven to terrorists, in particular militants responsible for violence in the disputed region of Kashmir, which has been home to a long-running insurgency with an allegiance to Pakistan.
Qazi said the government had evidence to show direct links between Indian agents and the murders of two Pakistani nationals, Muhammad Riaz in September and Shahid Latif in October last year. Riaz was shot dead while praying at a mosque in Rawalakot and Latif was killed outside a mosque in Sialkot.
An investigation by Pakistani agencies into Latif’s killing found that “an Indian agent based in a third country orchestrated the assassination”, Qazi said.
Similarly, after Pakistani authorities arrested the man accused of carrying out the murder of Riaz, he allegedly revealed that he had been recruited and guided by two Indian agents.
Qazi said the murders were orchestrated by Indian intelligence using a “sophisticated international set-up” spread over several countries, and that social media was used to recruit teams of financiers, locaters and assassins within Pakistan and outside to carry out the murders. He claimed Pakistani authorities had evidence of transactions linking the killings to an Indian agent.
He said investigations into other incidents were continuing. Calling the alleged killings “completely unacceptable”, Qazi said India needed to be held accountable.
“India must be held accountable internationally for its blatant violation of international law,” he said. “India’s assassination of Pakistani nationals on Pakistani soil is a violation of its sovereignty and a breach of the UN charter.”
Modhi straight wildin.
Pot calling the kettle black. Pakistan should be relieved that all India does is take care of the terrorists aimed towards them.Bleeding India with thousand cuts strategy will only take you so far. Thank your Gods that India didn’t wreck your sorry ass country after Mumbai terror attack or there wouldn’t be any Pakistan to talk about.
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Maybe India could stop murdering people on other countries?
Well, the Indians are killing people in Canada and tried to in the U.S. so I’m inclined to believe Pakistan.
Cue the flood of Indians saying ‘we would never do that’ and ‘I’m glad we did that he deserved it’ in the same thread.
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India isn’t a trustworthy ally. Better off the west cuts them off
So. What.
Pakistan also is linked to over 8294 Indian and middle eastern and American and eu deaths in the past 5 years funding terrorism… ding ding ding according to the BBC and Al whatever news from Kuwait that is who they went after. At least unlike Pakistan where they killed mostly civilians going after terrorist in Iran like a week or 2 ago which at the time news didnt cover till now. I’d rather have these kinds of isolated incidences going after only terroist without bombing an entire fucking building. We have seen enough of that between Israel and Palestine, America, and Iraq. Etc
Good. Terrorists must be eliminated
[deleted]
PKMKB in simple terms
Only 2? I am disappointed with this.
The country was responsible for double digit militancy incidents in just 2023. This is a very subdued response.
There are so many terrorists living, funded and trained out of Pakistan. The existence of Pakistani terrorism is detrimental to the security of the region and the world.
Tale as old as time.
Didn’t the US also assassinate a few folks in Pakistan? Hopefully we paid the government off to not say anything about it.
Did they say the same when Bin laden was killed as well
Pakistani here. The intelligence agencies have lots of control over information flow and have big budgets. If something like this is happening, then some people are not doing their jobs properly. My taxes are going to waste, in yet another channel.
Even if this shit is true, the media is riding a narrative to hide this failure. It’s fashionable to blame India for killings instead of fixing internal problems.
Cue the rush of Indians spamming everywhere with their bs takes.