The Ministry of External Affairs has denied allegations of a foreign media report that India carried out targeted assassinations in Pakistan, calling them “false and malicious propaganda”. The report by sources quoted intelligence operatives in India and Pakistan to claim that India’s move was part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil.
The allegations are “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”, the Ministry of External Affairs told sources, in response to the report. The ministry also underlined a previous statement by Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in which he said that targeted killings in other countries were “not the policy of the government of India.”
According to the report, documents shared by some Pakistani investigators indicated India’s intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) allegedly carried out 20 such targeted killings on foreign soil as part of an emboldened approach to national security after the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 40 Indian soldiers.
