‘New India Is Dangerous Entity’: Pakistan UN Envoy Highlights Targeted Assassinations In Homeland

New York: Pakistan’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram in perhaps the first acknowledgement of its kind on a global forum said that “new India is a dangerous entity”, invoking the alleged targeted and extra-judicial assassinations in his homeland and elsewhere.

Munir Akram, Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN quoted from a report in a leading US daily to say the “new India comes into your home and kills you”.

While addressing the General Assembly on May 2, Akram said, “Pakistan’s foreign minister informed the Security Council, as well as the secretary general and the president of the General Assembly of India’s campaign of targeted assassinations in Pakistan. This extra-territorial state terrorism is not limited to Pakistan. It has been extended to targeted killings of political opponents in Canada and attempted in the United States and probably in other countries.”

“The Washington Post reported that Prime Minister Modi last week told his cheering supporters, and I quote, “Today, even India’s enemies know this is Modi. This is the new India. This new India comes into your home and kills you”. This new India is a dangerous entity, it is a net provider of insecurity, not security,” Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN alleged.

Earlier, top British daily, The Guardian, claimed in a report that the Indian government carried out assassinations of wanted individuals deep inside Pakistan as part of a “wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil”.

It said, citing intelligence sources, that targeted assassinations increased significantly in 2023, claiming India’s involvement in the suspected deaths of about 15 people, “most of whom were shot at close range by unknown gunmen”.

Earlier, some countries in the West raised concerns over what they claimed were targeted killings on their soil at the behest of the Indian government.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused ‘agents’ allegedly in the employ of the Indian government of killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan leader and a designated terrorist by the country’s elite National Investigation Agency (NIA), in 2020. However, India has dismissed the claim as ‘absurd’ and ‘motivated’.

Nijjar was shot and killed as he came out of a Gurdwara in Surrey in June last year. A purported video clip of his killing that reportedly surfaced in March, this year, showing Nijjar being shot by armed men in what was alleged to be a ‘contract killing’.

(With Inputs From ANI)