Pakistan condemns Indian minister’s remarks about chasing suspects across border

Pakistan on Saturday strongly criticized Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “provocative remarks” suggesting India would enter Pakistan to kill anyone who escapes over its border after attempting militant attacks, Reuters reported yesterday.

Singh’s comments on Friday came after a report by the Gurdian claimed that India had killed about 20 people in Pakistan since 2020 as part of a plan to target “terrorists residing on foreign soil”.

“India’s assertion of its preparedness to extra-judicially execute more civilians, arbitrarily pronounced as ‘terrorists’, inside Pakistan constitutes a clear admission of culpability,” Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed in a statement.

Tensions between the two countries have escalated since a 2019 suicide bombing in Kashmir, which India traced to Pakistan-based militants.