The United States said it would not interfere in the issue but encouraged both sides to avoid escalating the situation. (document)

New Delhi:

The United States said on Monday it had been following reports accusing India of carrying out targeted killings in Pakistan and encouraged the two countries to find a solution through negotiations.

India last week dismissed accusations of targeted killings made in a report by the Guardian citing evidence from Pakistan, calling them “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”.

Asked about the allegations, U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller insisted that the U.S. government would not intervene in the issue but encouraged both sides to avoid escalation.

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“We have been following media reports on this issue. We have no comment on potential charges. But, of course, while we will not intervene in this situation, we encourage both parties to avoid escalation and find a solution through dialogue,” he said .

The Guardian reported that since the Pulwama attack in 2019, the Indian intelligence agency RAW has carried out as many as 20 such assassinations.

The report, which cited evidence provided by Pakistan and interviews with intelligence officials on both sides of the border, also claimed that Delhi “implements a policy of targeting those it considers to be hostile to India”.

It also cited Pakistani officials who blamed Indian intelligence agencies’ sleeper cells in the UAE for carrying out the killings. The report also quoted an unnamed Indian official as saying that the country was inspired by two intelligence agencies, the Israeli Mossad and the Russian KGB, which have been linked to extrajudicial killings on foreign soil and the 2018 The killing of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

India dismissed the accusations, citing External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who recently said targeted killings in other countries “are not the policy of the Indian government”.

The Foreign Office’s denial was also mentioned in the Guardian report.