India is behind the killings of 6 people in Pakistan since 2021, according to a report

Report by Washington Post. revealed on Tuesday that India’s external intelligence agency was allegedly carrying out a methodical assassination program aimed at killing about half a dozen people in Pakistan starting in 2021.

Six such killings, allegedly planned by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), were found to be similar to alleged operations carried out to kill Khalistan separatists in the United States and Canada.

A US-published newspaper quoted an identified official as saying that the killings in Pakistan were not committed by Indian citizens but by Pakistani petty criminals or hired gunmen from Afghanistan.

RAW allegedly employed Dubai-based businessmen as intermediaries. According to the report, the businessmen were then divided into separate teams to conduct surveillance, organize assassinations and arrange payments through hawala, or informal international financial networks.

In 2022, one such alleged murderer was Zahoor Mistry, who allegedly murdered an Indian passenger during the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight.

Washington Post. said that unidentified Pakistani officials received information that a woman named Tanaz Ansari, but who was actually an Indian intelligence officer, was involved in the operation to kill Mistry.

To track down Mistry, the woman allegedly hired two Pakistanis and two Afghan nationals to shoot him. Moreover, three other people from Southeast Asia, Africa and West Asia were also recruited to send at least $5,500 to those involved in the killing.

Citing unidentified Pakistani officials, The Washington Post also reported that the woman – believed to be an Indian agent – was allegedly involved in the murder of Syed Khalid Raza, who operated in Kashmir in the 1990s.

The alleged perpetrator of the 2016 Pathankot attack, Shahid Latif, was shot dead in Pakistan’s Sialkot district in October 2023, according to reports at the time that the killing was carried out by unknown assailants.

Washington Post. the report stated that a group of men led by a worker named Muhammad Umair shot Latif.

She later added that Umair was arrested. After previous attempts failed, he allegedly admitted that he was sent from Dubai to kill Latif. According to the newspaper, Umair also allegedly revealed the location of the hideout in Dubai.

Moreover, Pakistani agents later allegedly broke into the safe house, where they found intelligence, but failed to find two Indians who were said to be the tenants. Their names are Ashok Kumar Anand Salian and Yogesh Kumar.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs has refused to respond to the allegations Washington Post..

Indian authorities neither confirmed nor denied their role in specific past killings, but said such killings were not part of official policy.

These charges came eight months after RAW was accused of involvement in an alleged conspiracy to murder Khalistan separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and the murder of another Khalistan separatist leader known as Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Previously, in April 2024, a report by Guardian revealed that the Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “ordered killings” on Pakistani soil.

Exposing India’s “sophisticated and sinister” campaign of extraterritorial and extrajudicial killings, in January 2024, Pakistan’s then foreign secretary Syrus Qazi said Islamabad had “credible evidence” of Indian agents’ links to the killings of two of its citizens on its soil.

In its report, the British daily said that New Delhi “murdered people in Pakistan.”

Quoting intelligence agents, the publication said that New Delhi has adopted a policy of attacking on foreign soil people it considers hostile to India.

India’s notorious spy agency RAW, directly controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, allegedly began carrying out killings abroad after the 2019 Pulwama attack.

Moreover, Pakistan-India relations, already strained by historical baggage and border disputes, reached a new low after the 2016 arrest of Indian spy Kulbushan Yadav and the 2019 revocation of the special status of India’s Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Trade between the two countries was choked and diplomacy frozen due to the transfer of Kashmir, which was a gross violation of international law.

For over four years, Pakistan has made the restoration of ties with its nuclear neighbor conditional on the restoration of IIOJK’s special status.