RAW asked by PM Modi to execute covert strikes in Pakistan, assassination of Saeed, Masood Azhar: Pak media

India's Narendra Modi government has asked the country's Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) to execute covert strikes against Pakistan, according to the report in Pakistani website The News International.

The Pakistan’s intelligence establishment has got the information that RAW will target offices of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) or Milityary Intelligence (MI) offices, The News International says in its report.

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The report further says that the Indian agency has 'received the orders' from Modi Government to speed up execution of its plans to kill Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar.

The News International report quotes a senior Pak security official source as saying, "After the Indian military command advised PM Modi against any surgical strike or going for war with Pakistan, the option of covert strike against Pakistan has been approved."

“The RAW has been asked to execute a covert strike as an Indian response to Uri attack in Kashmir,” the report adds further. Earlier on Sept 22, the same news website had reported that India, under it 'Cold Start Doctrine', moved the units of Indian Army and Indian Air Force to forward air bases near Line of Control (LoC) to launch surgical strikes as part of India's three-phased strategy.

Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours are running high following the terrorist attack on an amry camp at Uri Sector in Kashmir and it caused speculations of Indian retaliation on social and mainstream media in Pakistan.

In its sharpest attack on Pakistan, India has called it a "terrorist state" which carries out "war crimes" by using terrorism as an "instrument of state policy", after Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif glorified Hizbul commander Burhan Wani at the United Nations.

India also strongly rejected Sharif's call for "a serious and sustained" bilateral dialogue "without any conditions", saying that Pakistan, which "seems to be run by a war machine rather than a government", wants talks with a "gun in its hand".

India also decided not to take part in the SAARC Summit in Islamabad in November this year. Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh also decided to not atend the SAARC summit after India's decision to boycott SAARC meeting in Pakistan. India on Wednesday said the SAARC Summit in Islamabad has to be postponed as it and three other countries have pulled out of the meet.

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