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The American news site The Intercept revealed leaked secret intelligence documents showing the spread of Indian death squads on a global scale.
The investigation conducted by the site’s journalists, Murtada Hussein and Ryan Grim, revealed that the Indian external intelligence agency, known as the Research and Analysis Wing, has been planning assassinations targeting activists residing in foreign countries from Sikh sect It is a province Kashmir Disputed between India and Pakistan.
Local area networks for implementation
The website based its investigation on leaked secret documents that included Pakistani intelligence assessments. These documents outline a series of threats by Indian external intelligence against people living in Pakistan. Pakistani security officials believe that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (Foreign Intelligence) is collaborating with local criminal and dissident networks to carry out assassinations and other attacks.
According to the documents, Indian foreign intelligence is targeting individuals and religious institutions that it claims support an “armed insurgency” in the Kashmir region, as well as Sikh activists wanted by the Indian government and living in Pakistan.
The Intercept’s investigation confirms that the documents provide compelling evidence of the sensational claim that India is carrying out a transnational assassination program against its political enemies. The Canadian government first made headlines in September when it accused Indian intelligence agents of orchestrating the assassination of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nigar on its soil.
Threats and poisoning
In Britain, the family of Sikh activist Avtar Singh Khanda in October called for an investigation into his sudden death, claiming he had been poisoned by Indian intelligence agents following a series of public threats on his life.
In September, the Intercept website published a report about Sikh activists in the United States receiving threats after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation warned a number of Sikh Americans that their lives were in danger after the killing of Canadian Nigar.
In 2022, a Sikh Canadian named Ribhudaman Singh Mallick (75), who was acquitted of involvement in the fatal bombing of an Air India plane in 1985, was shot dead in Canada in circumstances that remain mysterious.
She did not go out in public
Despite these accusations of involvement in assassinations on the territory of foreign countries, which caused tension in India’s foreign relations, intelligence information about them was not released to the public, whether from the Canadian, Pakistani, American, or other intelligence services, according to the Intercept investigation.
According to the Pakistani intelligence assessment, the Research and Analysis Wing of Indian Intelligence this summer targeted two Sikh activists in Pakistan for assassination in the cities of Lahore and Islamabad.
The name of the target in Islamabad was not revealed. The other is called Lakbir Singh Rude, a prominent Sikh separatist leader who has lived in Pakistan since the 1990s, and whom the Indian government has long accused of “terrorism.”
The American website says that Rudd was involved in a movement aimed at establishing an independent state in a region Punjab Known as the Khalistan In the eighties and nineties.
He lives under threat for years
Bhagat Singh, Rudd’s son – a Canadian citizen – said that his father had always lived under the threat of Indian intelligence, as he had been on the Indian government’s assassination list for years.
The American news site claims that the pace of suspected attacks inside Pakistan against those wanted by the Indian authorities appears to have accelerated recently, adding that a member associated with an Islamic group in Karachi was killed on October 13.
This assassination came after the recent killing of two armed Islamists wanted by India in the Pakistani tribal areas and the Kashmir region.
Secret documents released by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Bureau – a civilian-controlled security agency somewhat similar to the US FBI – show serious concerns that Indian intelligence will carry out more killings on its soil in the future.
Presence throughout the region
In May, the office issued a warning that Indian intelligence agents stationed in the UAE and Afghanistan were active in carrying out operations in Pakistan, suggesting that they had a presence throughout the region.
A Pakistani document warned in September that Indian intelligence was planning “terrorist attacks” and assassinations against targets inside Pakistan, and that its agents were operating from a training camp in the Afghan city of Spin Boldak “to target prominent Sikh figures in Pakistan.”
The website reported in its investigative report that in October, the Pakistani government arrested people it said were involved in killings of suspected militants inside Pakistan, which it attributed to an “enemy spy agency,” a reference in official Pakistani communications to Indian intelligence.
There is a general perception in the West that India can do no wrong, and that when Pakistan accuses India of doing such things, they are very suspicious.
The Intercept investigation pointed out that the American Atlantic Council for Studies withdrew an article it published in March accusing Indian intelligence of assassinating many Kashmiris in Pakistan. The withdrawal was made on the pretext that the article was not subject to the Council’s standard editorial standards.
