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"The Indian government assassinated individuals in Pakistan as part of a wider
strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, according to Indian
and Pakistani intelligence operatives who spoke to the
Guardian.
Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents
shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign
intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part
of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019. The agency, the
Research & Analysis Wing (Raw), is directly controlled by the office of India’s
prime minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in
elections later this month.
The accounts appear to give further weight to allegations that Delhi has
implemented a policy of targeting those it considers hostile to India. While
the new allegations refer to individuals charged with serious and violent
terror offences, India has also been accused publicly by Washington and Ottawa
of involvement in the murders of dissident figures including a Sikh activist in
Canada and of a botched assassination attempt on another Sikh in the US last
year.
The fresh claims relate to almost 20 killings since 2020, carried out by
unknown gunmen in Pakistan. While India has previously been unofficially linked
to the deaths, this is the first time Indian intelligence personnel have
discussed the alleged operations in Pakistan, and detailed documentation has
been seen alleging Raw’s direct involvement in the assassinations.
The allegations also suggest that Sikh separatists in the Khalistan movement
were targeted as part of these Indian foreign operations, both in Pakistan and
the west.
According to Pakistani investigators, these deaths were orchestrated by Indian
intelligence sleeper-cells mostly operating out of the United Arab Emirates.
The rise in killings in 2023 was credited to the increased activity of these
cells, which are accused of paying millions of rupees to local criminals or
poor Pakistanis to carry out the assassinations. Indian agents also allegedly
recruited jihadists to carry out the shootings, making them believe they were
killing “infidels”."
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