New Delhi:
The US on Monday stated it has been following experiences accusing India of conducting focused killings in Pakistan and stated it encourages the 2 international locations to discover a resolution by talks.
India had final week rejected the focused killing prices, made in a report within the UK every day The Guardian citing Pakistani proof, as “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”.
Requested concerning the allegations, US State Division spokesperson Matthew Miller asserted his authorities won’t intrude within the subject however encourage each side to keep away from escalation.
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— ANI (@ANI) April 9, 2024
“We’ve been following the media experiences about this subject. We haven’t any touch upon the underlying allegations. However in fact, whereas we’re not going to get in the course of this example, we encourage each side to keep away from escalation and discover a decision by dialogue,” he said.
The Guardian report claimed that the Indian intelligence agency RAW had carried out up to 20 such assassinations since the Pulwama attack of 2019.
The report, which cited evidence supplied by Pakistan and interviews with intelligence officials from both sides of the border, also claimed that Delhi “has carried out a coverage of focusing on these it considers hostile to India”.
It also quoted Pakistani officers who accused sleeper cells of the Indian intelligence established in the UAE of the killings. The report also cited an unnamed Indian official saying that the country had drawn inspiration from Israel’s Mossad and Russia’s KGB — intelligence agencies that have been linked to extrajudicial killings on foreign soil — and the killing of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
India trashed the charges quoting Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, who had said recently that targeted killings in other countries were “not the federal government of India’s coverage”.
The foreign ministry’s denial was also mentioned in the report by The Guardian.