The Ministry of External Affairs has denied allegations of a foreign media report that India carried out targeted assassinations in Pakistan, calling them "false and malicious propaganda". The report in The Guardian quoted intelligence operatives in India and Pakistan to claim that India's move was part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil.The allegations are "false and malicious anti-India propaganda", the Ministry of External Affairs told The Guardian, in response to the report. The ministry also underlined a previous statement by Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in which he said that targeted killings in other countries were "not the policy of the government of India."