India, April 13 -- INTRODUCTION

On 4 April the Guardian newspaper of the UK had come out with a report with the headline "Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim". The article went on to state that this was "a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil" and backed this by 'interviews and documents shared by Pakistani investigators' and said that this is 'part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019".

"After Pulwama, the approach changed to target the elements outside the country before they are able to launch an attack or create any disturbance. We could not stop the attacks because ultimately their safe havens were in Pakistan, so we had to get to the source," th...