Pakistan calls the “provocative” words made by an Indian official “admission of guilt”

Pakistan vehemently denounced Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “provocative” comments in a broadcast interview on Saturday, calling them a “admission of guilt”.

In an interview with CNN News18, Singh stated that India will cross into Pakistan and execute anyone who tries to cross the border and commits terrorism there. “If they run away to Pakistan, we will enter Pakistan to kill them.”

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, a spokesman for the Foreign Office, stated that India should be held responsible for its horrific and unlawful acts and that Pakistan is totally committed to defending its sovereignty against any assault.

The FO said that India had admitted guilt by saying it was ready to extrajudiciously kill additional people within Pakistan who had been wrongly labeled as “terrorists.”

“India’s horrific and unlawful acts must be held accountable by the international community.”

Baloch continued, stating that Pakistan has presented indisputable proof of Indian illegal executions and international assassinations on Pakistani territory on January 25.

She went on to say that India responded forcefully to aggression in February 2019 and that this exposed New Delhi’s flimsy claims of military might.

The representative claimed that “Indian rulers are resorting to hateful rhetoric for electoral gains and this irresponsible behavior harms regional peace.”

Pakistan has consistently shown that it is dedicated to promoting regional peace. We should not, however, let our wish for peace be misinterpreted. The FO statement concluded, “History attests to Pakistan’s firm resolve and ability to protect and defend itself.”

The Indian defense minister’s comments came after an investigative report by The Guardian, which cited documents shared by Pakistani investigators and intelligence officials from both countries to claim that at least 20 people had been killed in Pakistan since 2020 at the direction of the Indian intelligence agency RAW.

In a previous statement released on Friday, the FO declared that the network of extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings carried out by India was now a “global phenomenon” and cautioned that the country’s sovereignty and the UN Charter were clearly violated by India’s assassination of the Pakistanis on its soil.

The declaration emphasized a January news conference held by Foreign Secretary Syrus Sajjad Qazi, during which he declared that there was “credible evidence” linking Indian operatives to the murders of two Pakistani citizens in Sialkot and Rawalakot.

According to the Foreign Office, “these cases exposed the increasing sophistication and brazenness of Indian-sponsored terrorist acts inside Pakistan, with striking similarities to the pattern observed in other countries, including Canada and the United States.”

The criminals, enablers, backers, and promoters of these extralegal and extraterritorial killings must be brought to justice. The Foreign Office continued, “India must face international consequences for its flagrant breach of international law.