The Indian government has ordered the killing of nearly two dozen terror suspects in Pakistan since 2020. This was the conclusion of the British newspaper The Guardian Thursday, based on documents and interviews with Indian and Pakistani intelligence officers. It concerns people who have committed terrorist acts. This would indicate an increasingly aggressive approach to political opponents under the regime of President Narendra Modi: opponents are now also regularly eliminated outside their own borders.
According to two Indian officers, this foreign strategy followed the Pulwama attack in 2019, when forty Indian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy. A terrorist group from Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
Extrajudicial assassinations are contrary to international law. Canada previously accused India of ordering the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called “an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.” An attack on another Sikh – also a separatist – was thwarted in the United States. In that case too, the US saw indications of involvement of the Indian government.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies this The Guardian involvement and calls the accusations “false and malicious anti-India propaganda.” The ministry reiterated that targeted executions in other countries are “not the policy of the Indian government.”
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