India carried out plan to kill 6 terror suspects in Pakistan since 2021, claims The Washington Post

India’s external intelligence agency allegedly executed a methodical assassination programme to kill about half a dozen individuals in Pakistan from 2021 onwards, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Six such killings, allegedly planned by the Research and Analysis Wing, were said to bear similarities to alleged operations to assassinate Sikh separatists in the United States and Canada.

The killings in Pakistan were carried out not by Indian citizens but by Pakistani petty criminals or hired shooters from Afghanistan, the newspaper quoted unidentified officials as saying. The Research and Analysis Wing allegedly hired Dubai-based businessmen as intermediaries, and put in separate teams to carry out surveillance, organise killings and arrange for payments through hawala, or informal transnational financial networks.

One such alleged killing in 2022 was that of Zahoor Mistry, who was said to have murdered an Indian passenger during the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in 1999. Unidentified Pakistani officials told The Washington Post that a woman who called herself Tanaz Ansari, but was in fact said to be an Indian intelligence official, was involved in the operation to kill Mistry.

The woman allegedly hired two Pakistanis to track Mistry, two Afghan citizens to shoot him and three others from South East Asia, Africa and West Asia to send at least $5,500, or nearly Rs...

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