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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Aakash Hassan and Shah Meer Baloch

Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim

Saleem Rehmani being detained in 2010
Saleem Rehmani being detained in 2010. His killing in 2022, previously reported as the result of a suspected armed robbery, was allegedly planned out of the UAE. Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA

The Indian government assassinated individuals in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, according to Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives who spoke to the Guardian.

Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019. The agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (Raw), is directly controlled by the office of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in elections later this month.

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