India’s state sponsorship of terrorism

The Pakistani authorities have recently alleged India engaging in a sophisticated and sinister campaign involving extra-territorial and extra-judicial killings within Pakistan. During a press briefing at the Foreign Office, the Foreign Secretary claimed that Indian agents utilized technology and safe havens abroad to carry out assassinations in Pakistan, recruiting, financing, and supporting individuals, including criminals, terrorists, and unsuspecting civilians to play specific roles in these acts. According to him, the government of Pakistan has sufficient credible evidence linking Indian agents to the assassination of two Pakistani nationals on Pakistani soil. These targeted killings were part of high-profile cases and implicated a sophisticated international setup spanning multiple jurisdictions across the world. According to the details, two Indian agents Ashok Kumar Anand and Yogesh Kumar based in a third country in the Middle East, masterminded the murders of two Pakistani nationals namely Shahid Latif and Muhammad Riaz in Sialkot and Rawalkot Azad Kashmir respectively in recent months. As said there is a series of such cases having strategic importance and linked to secret operations undertaken by the Indian intelligence apparatuses in various countries including Pakistan.

Historically, the Indian government and its infamous Intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) have always pursued the policies coined by the old-age Hindu monk and Scholar Chandragupta Chanakya who is considered to be the pioneer of political science and economics in today’s India. The ancient sixth-century Hindu philosopher taught the Hindu rulers to use a double policy of co-existence together with March and war by implementing all possible tactics including gift and bribery, deceit, pretense, and open war to crush their opponents and secure their supremacy at all levels. After the formation of a Hindu-majority independent state, the Indian rulers had always followed Chanakya’s policies in true letter and spirit from the very first day. New Delhi suppressed ethnic and religious minorities in their country from Kashmir to Punjab and Nagaland to Manipur while Indian dissidents, political and human rights activists, fled the country to escape prosecution from Indian rulers, but killed cold-bloodedly through mercenaries abroad in North America, Europe, and Africa. On the other hand, Indian rulers pretended to be the biggest victims of terrorism while fueling violence and separatism in neighboring states particularly in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Banga Dash.

Ranging from the arrest and conviction of Indian Naval officer, Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav by Pakistani security forces in Balochistan in early 2016 to eye-opening revelations of Brussels-based EU Disinfo Lab about New Delhi-sponsored network of online propaganda news outlets, fake think tanks that weighed a propaganda campaign against Islamabad. The government of Pakistan highlighted multiple times, the issue of India’s involvement in state-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan. The Foreign Office specifically briefed the UN Security Council and diplomats of important nations along with providing dossiers containing irrefutable evidence of Indian involvement in terrorism-related incidents in Pakistan. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s repeated calls could not reach the ears and minds of the civilized world until Canadian authorities charged an Indian diplomat for his involvement killing of a Canadian Sikh and the US government accused Indian intelligence of an assassination bid on an American Sikh in New York last year.

The recent killings of two Pakistani nationals at the hands of Indian secret agents operating out of a third country further exposed the true face of Indian leaders who try to champion India’s fake secularism and democracy and demand a greater role at the International level. The government of Pakistan must raise this issue at the UN, demanding a probe through Interpol along with filing a lawsuit against the Indian government at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to get justice for its citizens and stall continued Indian support for separatist and terrorist elements in the country. The Western nations and the global community have now become fully aware of India’s continued state sponsorship of terrorism and inference into other countries that constitute a persistent risk to regional peace and stability. The United Nations and the civilized world must reprimand New Delhi for its reckless behavior to stall the repetition of such unlawful action that might have grave consequences for global peace in the future.