After a news report claiming that Delhi had committed at least 20 illegal murders in the neighboring nation, India and Pakistan are engaged in barbaring talks.
However, its defense secretary declared on Friday that India would end any country’s peace if it fled to Pakistan.
Pakistan has reacted quickly, calling the remarks bold.
Since 1947, the two countries have engaged in three wars, each of which are uncomfortable.
In 2019, when India launched attacks against violent camps in Pakistan’s Balakot territory in retaliation for a murder attack that claimed 40 lives in Indian-controlled Kashmir, relationships reached an all-time low.
The strike, which occurred in the Pulwama city, was carried out by Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish e Mohammad.
Since therefore, an uncomfortable pause has prevailed over the locations ‘ relationships.
The latest uptick in tensions came on Thursday after The Guardian reported that, as part of a wider effort to “target extremists living on international soil,” India had been accused of killing at least 20 people in Pakistan since 2020.
Delhi refutes the accusation, which comes weeks after Canada even accused India of carrying out extrajudicial killings there.
The announcement comes at a time when India is scheduled to hold public votes on April 19 and on April 19 respectively. Pakistan is a sensitive topic in India, and according to experts, officials, particularly those from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP), frequently use it as a political poll strategy to win over voters.
In the statement, the paper quoted” top officials from two distinct Pakistani intelligence agencies” who claimed that India’s spy company- the Research &, Analysis Wing (RAW )- was immediately involved in the assassinations.
The unknown officials claimed that India’s number of targeted killings in Pakistan and the West had” significantly increased” since 2023 and that Delhi had benefited from the work of other foreign spy firms, which have been linked to extrajudicial killings carried out on foreign soil.
An unnamed Indian intelligence operative is quoted as saying,” After Pulwama, the approach changed to the elements outside the country before they are able to launch an attack or cause any disturbance.”
According to him,” We could n’t stop the attacks because Pakistan’s safe havens were in Pakistan, so we had to get to the source,” adding that such operations “needed approval from the highest level of government.”
India did not immediately refute the newspaper’s allegations, despite the report’s reference to the foreign ministry, which cites Foreign Minister S Jaishankar’s earlier assertion that targeted killings in other nations were” not the government of India’s policy.”
But on Friday, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that “any terrorist trying to create turmoil in India wo n’t be spared”.
Islamabad demanded that the world community “hold India accountable for its illegal actions” and claimed to have provided “irrefutable evidence” linking India to extrajudicial killings in its country.
It also added that” India’s assertion of its preparedness to extra judicially execute more civilians, arbitrarily pronounced as ‘ terrorists’, inside Pakistan constitutes a clear admission of culpability”.
India has not yet responded to Pakistan’s most recent accusations.
India has refuted the allegations, and Canada has claimed that it has not provided” concrete evidence” to support the claim.
In November, the US too had said that it had foiled an alleged plot by an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, to assassinate Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
India denied any involvement but said it was” co- operating” with US authorities on the issue.
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19 September 2023
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