A report by The Washington Post India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly ran a procedural killing program to kill about half a dozen people in Pakistan since 2021, revealed Tuesday.
Allegedly planned by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), six such killings are said to be similar to alleged operations to kill Khalistan separatists in the US and Canada. are
The US-based newspaper quoted an identified official as saying that the killings in Pakistan were not carried out by Indian nationals but by Pakistani petty criminals or hired shooters from Afghanistan.
The Dubai-based businessmen were allegedly hired by Raw as intermediaries. The businessmen were then placed in separate teams to supervise, organize the killings, and arrange payments through hawala, or informal international financial networks, the report said.
In 2022, one such alleged murder was that of Zahoor Mistry, who is said to have killed an Indian passenger during the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in 1999.
The Washington Post He said it was reported by unidentified Pakistani officials that a woman who called herself Tanz Ansari but was actually an Indian intelligence official was involved in the killing of Mistry.
To track down Mistry, the woman allegedly hired two Pakistanis and two Afghan nationals to shoot him. Additionally, three other individuals from Southeast Asia, Africa and West Asia were also hired to send at least $5,500 to those involved in the murder.
Citing unnamed Pakistani officials, The Washington Post also reported that the woman, believed to be an Indian agent, was also allegedly involved in the 1990 assassination of Syed Khalid Raza. He was active in Kashmir in the decade of
Shahid Latif, the alleged mastermind of the 2016 Pathankot attack, was gunned down in October 2023 in Pakistan’s Sialkot district, according to reports at the time, by unknown assailants.
The Washington Post The report claimed that Latif was shot dead by a group of men led by a laborer named Muhammad Umeer.
Later, he added, Umeer was arrested. After such previous attempts failed, he is said to have confessed that he had been sent from Dubai to kill Latif. According to the newspaper, Umair also allegedly revealed the location of a safe house in Dubai.
Additionally, Pakistani agents later allegedly broke into the safe house, where they found classified information but did not find the two Indians who were said to be the tenants. Their names are Ashok Kumar Anand Salyan and Yogesh Kumar.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs refused to respond to these allegations. The Washington Post.
Indian officials have neither confirmed nor denied their role in specific killings in the past, but have said such killings are not part of official policy.
The allegations come eight months after Rao was accused of involvement in the alleged plot to kill Khalistan separatist leader Gurpatunt Singh Panun and the killing of a Khalistan separatist leader known as Hardeep Singh Najjar.
An earlier report in April 2024 The Guardian revealed that the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “ordered the killing” on Pakistani soil.
Exposing the Indian campaign of extraterritorial and extrajudicial killings, Pakistan’s then Foreign Secretary Cyrus Qazi said in January 2024 that Islamabad had “credible evidence” linking Indian agents to the two killings. His citizens on his land.
In the report, the UK Daily newspaper claimed that New Delhi “killed people in Pakistan”.
The publication quoted intelligence operatives as saying that New Delhi has adopted a policy of targeting on foreign soil those it considers hostile to India.
India’s notorious spy agency RAW, which is directly controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, reportedly started killing abroad after the 2019 Pulwama attack.
Moreover, already strained by historical baggage and border disputes, Pakistan-India relations hit a new low following the 2016 arrest of Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav and the 2019 revocation of the special status of India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). reached the surface.
This move by Kashmir has stifled trade between the two countries and frozen diplomacy, a clear violation of international law.
For more than four years, Pakistan has made restoration of relations with its nuclear-armed neighbor a condition for the restoration of the IIOJK’s special status.