CNN —A top Pakistan official on Thursday accused India of killing two Pakistani nationals on its soil, citing what he called “a pattern” of alleged Indian assassination plots overseas and raising tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
India has long accused Pakistan of harboring terrorists, particularly in the disputed and heavily militarized region of Kashmir, which both countries claim in its entirety.
Qazi on Thursday compared the alleged killings in Pakistan to other purported recent Indian assassination plots in North America.
India and many other countries have publicly warned Pakistan cautioning that it would be consumed by its own culture of terror and violence,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
The Indian government has denied involvement in the American and Canadian cases and has set up a high-level committee to investigate the accusations in the US.
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