“India is killing terrorists by entering PAK”: ‘The Guardian’ claims, MEA has rejected such allegations many times

America, Canada and now Britain’s daily newspaper ‘The Guardian’ (UK daily The Guardian) have accused India of murders and attempted murders on foreign soil. According to the report of ‘The Guardian’, India has taken inspiration from Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and Russia’s KGB, which are known for killing their enemies on foreign soil. However, the Indian Foreign Ministry has rejected such allegations several times.

India’s Foreign Ministry has repeatedly rejected the allegations of the report of British daily newspaper ‘The Guardian’, in which India has been accused of carrying out targeted killings in Pakistan to eliminate terrorists.
The Ministry of External Affairs has been calling the allegations of reports like ‘The Guardian’ as “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”. Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has also said several times that targeted killings in other countries have not been the “policy of the Government of India”.

The Guardian report claims that New Delhi has “implemented a policy of targeting those it considers hostile to India.” The report claims that since the 2019 Pulwama attack, around 20 such killings were carried out by the Indian intelligence agency RAW.

The report says that it is based on evidence provided by Pakistan and interviews with intelligence officials on both sides of the border. The Guardian, quoting an unnamed Indian official, has said that India has taken inspiration from the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and Russia’s KGB, which are known for killing their enemies on foreign soil.

The name of these agencies was also linked to the murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The report said that Pakistani officials have presented documents about some killings, which could not be independently verified. It said Pakistani officials also claimed that the killings were carried out by a sleeper cell of the Indian intelligence established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Earlier, America and Canada had accused India of murders and attempted murders on foreign soil. However, even India had rejected these allegations outright. Canada was also asked to provide evidence regarding the allegations.

In September last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had claimed that there were “credible allegations” of India’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and wanted terrorist in India, was shot outside a gurudwara in Surrey in June. India had rejected this allegation as “absurd”.

After this, America had claimed that they had foiled the assassination attempt of another Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The US claimed that Pannun was an American-Canadian citizen who was allegedly conspired to be murdered by an Indian citizen, Nikhil Gupta, and an unnamed Indian government official.

The US claimed that Pannun, an American-Canadian citizen, was the subject of an assassination plot by Nikhil Gupta, an Indian citizen, and an unnamed Indian government official.

Amid US allegations, India had said it was examining US inputs on “nexus between organized criminals, terrorists and others”. Former External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi had said, “India takes such input seriously, as it also impacts our own national security interests. The issues with respect to US input are already being examined by the relevant departments.” Has been.”