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According to the report, intelligence sources claimed that targeted assassinations increased significantly in 2023. (Representational image/AFP)
The claims are connected to almost 20 killings since 2020, carried out by unknown gunmen in Pakistan, the British daily has said
The Indian government orchestrated killings of individuals in Pakistan as part of a bid to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, British daily The Guardian has said in a report, citing Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives.
The claims are connected to almost 20 killings since 2020, carried out by unknown gunmen in Pakistan.
According to the report, intelligence sources claimed that targeted assassinations increased significantly in 2023.
“This policy of Indian agents organising killings in Pakistan hasn’t been developed overnight. We believe they have worked for around two years to establish these sleeper cells in the UAE who are mostly organising the executions. After that, we began witnessing many killings,” a Pakistani official told The Guardian.
India has also been accused publicly by Washington and Ottawa of involvement in the murders of dissident figures including an alleged Khalistani Sikh in Canada and of a botched assassination attempt on another such person in the US last year, says the report.
Analysts feel Pakistan has been reluctant to publicly acknowledge the killings as most of the targets are known terrorists and associates of banned militant groups that Islamabad has long denied sheltering, the report says.