“Both the newspaper and the reporter in question appear to nurse a compulsive hostility towards India. You can see a pattern in their activities. I leave you to judge their credibility. As far as we are concerned, they have none,” Jaiswal said.

“As regards (the report on) Pakistan, I remind you of what Hillary Clinton said — ‘You cannot keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours,'” he said.

Clinton had made the comments in a blunt message to Pakistan in 2011, when she was serving as the US secretary of state.

She had also said that Washington intended to “push the Pakistanis very hard” to remove militant safe havens and tackle groups like the Haqqani network that are responsible for cross-border strikes.

In its report on India’s “shadow” operations in Pakistan, the Washington Post, quoting unnamed Pakistani and western officials, claimed that the Indian intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), is carrying out a programme since 2021 to “kill at least a half a dozen people” inside Pakistan.-Agencies