Pakistan says that the issue of extrajudicial and foreign killings by India has now become a global problem that requires a coordinated international response.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Spokesperson of the Pakistani Foreign Office, while talking to Arab News on Friday, said that “Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Muhammad Cyrus Sajjad Qazi, in January, the evidence of India’s connection with the murder of two Pakistani citizens in Pakistan, has been reported by the local and international media.” shared with.
He added that these incidents have exposed the growing sophistication and shamelessness of Indian-sponsored terrorist activities within Pakistan, which are similar to similar incidents in other countries, including Canada and the United States. .’
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that ‘such actions of New Delhi are clearly a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan and the Charter of the United Nations.’
According to him: ‘It is imperative that the perpetrators, facilitators, financiers and supporters of these extrajudicial and cross-border killings be brought to justice. India should be held accountable at the international level for flagrant violation of international laws.
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On Thursday, the British newspaper The Guardian claimed in a special report that the Indian government has also killed people in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to exterminate people living on foreign soil.
According to a report by The Guardian, interviews with Pakistani and Indian intelligence agents and documents provided by Pakistani investigators reveal how India’s foreign intelligence agency’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has since 2019 They allegedly started killing people abroad in the name of security.
The report said that since 2020, unknown armed men have killed around 20 people in Pakistan. The report quoted Pakistani investigators as saying that “the deaths were planned by Indian intelligence sleeper cells” operating from another country.
Commenting on this report, the Foreign Ministry’s statement said that the killing of Pakistani citizens on Pakistani soil by India is a clear violation of the country’s sovereignty and the United Nations Charter.
The Foreign Office spokesperson said that these incidents have exposed the growing sophistication and brazenness of Indian-sponsored terrorist activities within Pakistan, which are very similar to the behavior of other countries, including Canada and the United States.
India has denied the claims made in the report.
‘Authentic evidence’ of India’s involvement in the killing of Pakistanis
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Cyrus Sajjad Qazi, speaking to the media in Islamabad on January 25 this year, disclosed the involvement of India in the murder of two Pakistani citizens and said that they have Indian agents in two cases of murder on Pakistani soil. There is ‘substantial evidence’ of the involvement of
Cyrus Sajjad Qazi said that the two murdered men were Pakistani citizens and were killed under a system of contract killings.
Cyrus Qazi said the two incidents are consistent with two similar efforts in Canada and the United States. Before Pakistan, both the US and Canada had accused Indian agents of attempted assassinations on their soil.
While giving a briefing in the Foreign Office, Foreign Secretary Cyrus Qazi said that ‘we have confirmed evidence of the killing of two Pakistani citizens Shahid Latif and Muhammad Riaz by India and the fabric of the killers matches with two Indian citizens. ‘
Cyrus Qazi said: ‘Pakistan’s security agencies have exposed on the basis of evidence that Indian citizens Ashok Kumar Anand and Yogesh Kumar are directly involved in the murder of Mohammad Riaz and Shahid Latif. The law enforcement agencies of Pakistan arrested the target killers of Muhammad Riaz and Shahid Latif in the light of irrefutable evidence.
He further informed that ‘the target killers involved in the murder, their accomplices and facilitators were arrested when they were trying to escape from Pakistan.’
The foreign secretary said that ‘Shahid Latif was killed in Duska, Sialkot by Indian national Yogesh Kumar through local contract killer Umeer, who formed a team of five target killers to kill Shahid Latif. The law enforcement agencies have arrested Umeer along with his associates.
He said that the second case is that of Mohammad Riaz who was killed at dawn in Rawalkot. Investigation revealed that Muhammad Abdullah Ali killed Muhammad Riaz on September 8 and received money from Indian agents in a third country.
“Investigators have credible evidence that this entire targeted killing campaign involved Indian nationals in third countries who were funding it as well as giving instructions and controlling the campaign.”
Cyrus Qazi said that ‘when these murders were done, there was joy in Indian social media circles. In the statements of the killers, the network was mentioned. All evidence of the killers’ contacts, payments and other backings has been obtained.’
Why did India kill Pakistani citizens? In response to this question, he said that “Muhammad Riaz and Shahid Latif, who were killed, were peaceful citizens and their only fault was that they had exposed the ongoing cruelty and brutality in Kashmir and the ugly face of India.”
In response to the Pakistani Foreign Secretary’s press briefing at that time, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied Pakistan’s statement and said that ‘Pakistan will reap what it sows.’
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2024-04-22 09:04:33