A Pakistani journalist appeared to suggest that India had a role in the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was shot at during his rally in Pennsylvania. A bullet had pierced the upper part of his right ear. As the bullet hit his ears, Trump was seen ducking with the Secret Service surrounding him.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed concern over the attack on Donald Trump and said violence has no place in politics and democracies.
According to media reports, the Washington correspondent for ARY News, Jahanzaib Ali, during a recent press conference by Pentagon’s press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder sought to know if a foreign country was involved in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Jahanzaib Ali, who covers covers international politics and foreign policy for the news outlet, without naming India, pointed to allegations of involvement of foreign countries in the attempts to assassinate citizens in Canada and the US.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had alleged New Delhi had role behind the murder of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said the Indian government had told Canada that India had nothing to do with the killing of Nijjar.
Besides, a US media report had claimed that a hit team was hired by a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer to plot an attack on Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
“But do you think that any foreign country involved in this kind of assassination attempts to create disturbance in this country,” the reporter had asked, in an apparent reference to the aforementioned cases, without naming India.
“Recently, we have seen a foreign government and foreign intelligence agencies involved in the assassination attempt on a US citizen here in New York and also in Canada. So, do you think that any foreign country can perform this,” he asked.
Ryder directed these questions to the FBI and the Secret Service.
