NEW DELHI – The Indian intelligence agencies believe that Pakistan isinvolved in the recent killings of special police officers in Jammu andKashmir. According to a report in The Times of India, the intelligenceagencies received the information as they intercepted messages ofPakistan’s ISI.
As per the Indian media report, the intercepted messages suggested thatthere were “pinpointed instructions” to kill the SPOs after abducting them.
A major reason for the cancellation of talks, between External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi,by India are the revelations of these intercepted messages from Pakistan’sISI, said the report.
The instructions revealed through the intercepted message were so elaboratethat the ISI had even mentioned the names of the SPOs who were to betargeted and killed by the militants in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The three SPOs killed by the militants were – Nisar Ahmad, Firdous Ahmedand Kulwant Singh.