DeansMusings

I had earlier written about how `unknown gunmen’ were killing off leading figures among Pakistan’s terrorist groups and speculated that RAW was doing things that hitherto were associated only with agencies like Mossad. My reasons for believing that India had contracted out the killing of these high value targets, rather than them falling out with their handlers in Pakistan’s ISI, or inter-group rivalry were: - Several of those killed were among India’s most wanted, protected by the ISI. The loss in morale to the  group was costlier than any gain to the ISI from dispensing with that person. - People across terrorist groups were killed, so it was not as if the ISI was trying to cut one group down   to size. Nor to the groups have a history of inter group killings. - Some of those were low level operatives, but of particular importance to India. For e.g. the abductor     of Cdr. Kulbhshan Jadhav, the person responsible for beheading an Indian soldier etc (who was a...

  I decided to write this after an unprecedented number of people – all senior figures in Anti India terrorist groups, were killed by `unknown gunmen’ in Pakistan. There is speculation about the possible role of the Indian external intelligence agency RAW. While most of the publicity around these deaths has focused on the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, there were a larger number of deaths in Pakistan, most of whom who were more of a `clear and present’ danger to India than Nijjar and protected by the Pakistan establishment. How likely is it that RAW was behind these? I will focus on the unexplained shootings in the last year, of those wanted and India and based in Pakistan (though two were killed outside Pakistan. This is the list, starting with the most recent: 11 Nov Maulana Raheem Ulla Tariq . Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). Shot in Karachi. 9 Nov    Akram Khan Ghazi . Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Shot in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa 6 Nov  Khwaja Shahid . LeT. Kidnapped ...