The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Thursday lashed out at Pakistan for "peddling false and malicious anti-India propaganda" after Islamabad claimed that India was involved in killing of two Pakistani nationals.
MEA strongly rejected Pakistan's claims and said that Islamabad will reap what it sows.
"We have seen media reports regarding certain remarks by Pakistan foreign secretary. It is Pakistan’s latest attempt at peddling false and malicious anti-India propaganda. As the world knows, Pakistan has long been the epicentre of terrorism, organised crime, and illegal transnational activities," MEA said in a statement.
"India and many other countries have publicly warned Pakistan cautioning that it would be consumed by its own culture of terror and violence. Pakistan will reap what it sows. To blame others for its own misdeeds can neither be a justification nor a solution," it added.
India's response came after Pakistan alleged that it had “credible evidence” of links between what it called "Indian agents" and the assassination of two Pakistani terrorists associated with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Sialkot and Rawalkot last year.
Pakistan foreign secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi made these allegations during a press conference, claiming that India was carrying out "extra-territorial and extra-judicial killings" within Pakistan.
Shahid Latif, a key aide of terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed's chief Masood Azhar and the mastermind of the 2016 attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, was gunned down in a mosque in Sialkot in Punjab province on October 11, 2023.
On September 8, 2023, Riyaz Ahmad alias Abu Qasim, affiliated with the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, who was one of the main conspirators behind the Dhangri terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on January 1, 2023 was shot dead by unidentified gunmen inside the Al-Qudus mosque during pre-dawn prayers in the Rawalakot area in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, Pakistan claimed.
The foreign secretary further alleged that Indian agents utilized technology and sought refuge on foreign soil to carry out assassinations in Pakistan.
(With inputs from agencies)