Pakistan on Thursday accused neighboring India’s intelligence agency of involvement in the extrajudicial killings of its citizens, saying it had credible evidence linking two Indian agents to the deaths of two Pakistanis in Pakistan last year.
“We have documentary, financial and forensic evidence of the involvement of the two Indian agents who masterminded these assassinations,” Pakistani Foreign Secretary Sajjad Qazi said at a news conference in Islamabad.
He said the assassination of Pakistani nationals on Pakistani soil was a violation of the nation’s sovereignty and a breach of the UN Charter.
“This violation of Pakistan sovereignty by India is completely unacceptable,” he said.
The two dead men, both anti-India militants, were killed in gun attacks inside mosques in separate cities in Pakistan.
The allegations come months after both the US and Canada accused Indian agents of links to assassination attempts on their soil.
“Clearly the Indian network of extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings has become a global phenomenon,” Qazi said.
India denied the Pakistani allegation, calling it an “attempt at peddling false and malicious anti-India propaganda.”
“As the world knows, Pakistan has long been the epicenter of terrorism, organized crime and illegal transnational activities,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
“To blame others for its own misdeeds can neither be a justification nor a solution,” Jaiswal added.
Qazi said the Indian agents, whom he identified as Yogesh Kumar and Ashok Kumar, orchestrated the deaths of the two Pakistanis from a third nation.
He said the killings involved “a sophisticated international setup spread over multiple jurisdictions. 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,” he said.
Qazi said most of the men allegedly hired by the Indian agents for the killings had been arrested.
Gunmen in September last year killed militant Mohammad Riaz inside a mosque in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. He was a former member of the militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which was founded by Hafiz Saeed, who also founded the outlawed group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was blamed by New Delhi for attacks in Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people.
Qazi said the other Pakistani national, Shahid Latif, was killed in October last year inside a mosque in Pakistan’s Sialkot District. Latif was a close aide to Masood Azhar, the founder of the anti-India Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group.
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