EPA Protests in Pakistan following the assassination of a Sikh leader in Canada
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 22:47
The Indian government has had several people killed in Pakistan since 2020, reports The Guardian based on conversations with employees of the Indian and Pakistani secret services.
In Pakistan, this would involve almost twenty liquidations of people accused by India of having committed terrorist acts or being members of terrorist organizations. According to these employees, these kinds of murders could not have been committed without the knowledge and approval of Prime Minister Modi.
Canada
The charges follow previous accusations by the Canadian government that India was behind the assassination of a Sikh leader near Vancouver in 2023. He was considered a terrorist by the government because he was part of the Khalistan movement.
The aim of this movement is to establish a separate state for Sikhs in India. A murder of a Sikh was also planned in the United States. According to the US government, the killing was also ordered by India. India denies any involvement.
Bomb attack
India is said to have changed its policy in 2019 after a suicide bomber bombed a convoy of Indian police officers in Kashmir. An Indian secret service official told The Guardian that the government could not get a handle on these types of attacks “because Pakistan was ultimately a safe haven. So we had to go to the source.”
An example would have been taken of how the Saudi government had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered in Turkey in 2019. A senior Indian government official, according to one person reporting in The Guardian, said: “If the Saudis can do this, why can’t we?”
United Arab Emirates
Since then, according to intelligence sources, there have been ‘sleeper cells’ of the Indian secret service in the United Arab Emirates that are responsible for preparing the murders.
India denies any involvement and speaks to The Guardian of “untrue and malicious propaganda against India”. The Ministry of External Affairs referred to an earlier statement by Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who said that killings in other countries “are not the government policy of India”.
Foreign editor Devi Boerema:
“This investigation by The Guardian is striking because it is the first time that employees of the secret services have come forward. There have been rumors for a long time about Indian involvement in these murders.
Pakistan also accused India of this, but because relations between the two countries are very tense, these accusations were doubted. Pakistan is also in a difficult situation because they do not want to acknowledge that what India says is true, that these terrorists had a quiet life on their soil.
If this story from The Guardian is true, India shows that it is not inferior to the intelligence services of other countries such as the CIA and the Mossad. In the run-up to the April 19 elections, many Indians will agree that this government is eliminating terrorists before they operate on Indian soil.”
2024-04-04 20:47:07
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