The External Affairs Ministry right now issued a robust rebuttal to a Washington Post report which claimed that Research and Analysis Wing officers have been behind the alleged assassination plot of Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The Washington Post’s report comes months after the Financial Times made comparable claims associated to Pannun’s assassination in November final 12 months.
The Washington Post, in its report, named an Indian official for allegedly plotting Pannun’s assassination. However, India right now mentioned the report made ‘unwarranted and unsubstantiated’ imputations on a severe matter.
“The report in question makes unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputation on the serious matter. There is an ongoing investigation of the High Level Committee set up by the Government of India to look into the security concerns shared by the US government on networks of organised criminals, terrorists and others. Speculative and irresponsible comments on it are not helpful,” mentioned the MEA in an announcement.
In its report, the Washington Post mentioned, “That India would pursue lethal operations in North America has stunned Western security officials. In some ways, however, it reflects a profound shift in geopolitics. After years of being treated as a second-tier player, India sees itself as a rising force in a new era of global competition, one that even the United States cannot afford to alienate.” It names a RAW official to say that India was plotting the mentioned assassination.
In November final 12 months, US federal prosecutors charged Indian nationwide Nikhil Gupta with working with an Indian authorities worker within the foiled plot to kill Pannun, a Sikh extremist on American soil.Â
Pannun, needed in India on terror prices, holds twin citizenship of the US and Canada.
On December 7, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned in Parliament that India instituted an inquiry committee to look into the inputs obtained from the US within the case because the matter has a bearing on nationwide safety.
