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After Canada and America, Pakistan has also accused India of target killing

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After Canada and America, now Pakistan has also accused India of target killing on its soil.

After Canada and America, now Pakistan has also accused India of target killing on its soil.

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammad Cyrus Sajjad Qazi held a press conference on Thursday and claimed that there is strong evidence of a link between the killing of two Pakistani nationals on our soil and Indian agents.

He referred to the deaths of two Pakistanis in 2023, identified as Shahid Latif and Mohammad Riaz. Latif was the mastermind of the 2016 attack on Pathankot Air Force Station in Punjab.

At the same time, Mohammad Riaz was accused of conspiring to kill five Indian Army soldiers in Kashmir.

Addressing the press, the foreign secretary of Pakistan said that Shahid Latif was killed in Sialkot on 11 October 2023 and Muhammad Riaz was killed in Rawalkot on 8 September 2023. He said that on the behest of the Indian agent, the local paid killer carried out these murders.

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