Pakistan Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi blamed India Thursday for the assassination of two civilians on Pakistani soil, saying that the government has “credible evidence” linking the murder of Pakistani civilians and Indian agents.

Qazi expanded on the allegations in a press briefing, referring to the assassination of Shahid Latif and Muhammad Riaz in 2023. Qazi alleged that these assassinations are “killing-for-hire cases” and that they are a component of India’s “sophisticated international set-up spread over multiple jurisdictions.”

The foreign minister concluded, stating:

We have documentary, financial and forensic evidence of the involvement of the two Indian agents who masterminded these assassinations…India must be held accountable internationally for its blatant violation of international law. India’s assassination of Pakistani nationals on Pakistani soil is a violation of its sovereignty and a breach of the UN charter.

This is not the first time India has been accused of extrajudicial killings on foreign territory. In 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of masterminding the killing of a Canadian national on its soil, which Trudeau referred as an “unaccepted violation of Canadian sovereignty.” The assassinated Canadian national was an alleged Sikh separatist leader, named Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India then called on the Canadian government to take their diplomats back and threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity after Trudeau’s allegations. In a similar instance, US officials in 2023 accused the Indian government of recruiting an Indian agent for an alleged plan to murder a Sikh separatist leader on US soil.