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India calls Pakistan’s claim of targeted killings ‘false’

Saturday, 27 January 2024



NEW DELHI, Jan 26 (BBC): India has dismissed allegations by Pakistan that its agents killed two Pakistani citizens on its soil in 2023, calling them "false".
Pakistan's claims come months after Ottawa alleged that India was involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist in Canada - India has denied this. On Thursday, Islamabad said it had "credible evidence" of links between the two killings and Indian agents.
India's foreign ministry called it "malicious anti-India propaganda".
The two deaths in Pakistan include the killing of Muhammad Riaz in Rawalakot city in September 2023 and Shahid Latif in Sialkot city in October 2023, the country's foreign ministry said in a press briefing on Thursday. One of the men was shot dead while praying at a mosque, while the other was killed outside one.
Pakistan's foreign ministry did not disclose who these people were or the reasons for Delhi allegedly dispatching agents to carry out the killings within its arch-rival's territory.