Pakistan Accuses India of Killing Two Civilians Inside Pakistan

The Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazj, has stated that the Pakistani government has strong evidence indicating the involvement of Indian agents in the murder of Muhammed Riaz in Kashmir and Shahid Lathif in Sialkot, a town close to Kashmir, in September and October last year.

He asserted that the killings were part of “a pattern” of Indian assassination plots overseas, which has raised the tensions between the neighboring countries. He claimed that the murders were, “killings-for-hire cases involving a sophisticated international setup spread over multiple jurisdictions.”

Both of the men that had been killed were close to mosques when their bodies were found, according to the Foreign Secretary, but he did not provide more details regarding the reasons for the deaths for their deaths.

The area of Kashmir is heavily militarized and has been disputed by the two countries since the partition of India and Pakistan after the end of British rule in 1947.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs rejected the statement, branding the allegations as an attempt to spread anti-India propaganda. Despite this, India has been implicated in the killings of an American and a Canadian, both on their home soils, with the recent murder in Pakistan creating the “pattern” described by the Pakistani Foreign Secretary. Pakistan is the first of the three countries to have concluded their investigation and implicate Indian involvement.

The Indian Government has denied involvement in all of the aforementioned killings.