India on Friday strongly condemned two recent reports published by the Washington Post, one of which linked New Delhi to a failed impeachment plot against Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu, and the other of some reports that Indian agents in Pakistan An alleged effort to eliminate terrorist elements was reported.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal rejected these reports, saying that the newspaper and the associated reporters appear to have “tremendous hostility” towards India.

In its news on Maldives, the newspaper cited a document titled “Democratic Renewal Initiative” and claimed that opposition politicians had planned to bribe 40 members of parliament, including members of his own party, to vote to impeach Muizzu. Had proposed. It says that even after months of secret negotiations, the conspirators failed to gather enough votes to impeach the President.

Jaiswal said, “It seems that both this newspaper and its reporter have a strong hostility towards India. You can see a pattern in their activities. I leave it to you to judge their credibility. As far as we are concerned, there is no point in them.”

He said, “As far as news on Pakistan is concerned, I want to remind you of what Hillary Clinton said – ‘You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to bite only your neighbors. .’ ,

Clinton had made these comments in 2011 in a clear message to Pakistan. At that time she was the Foreign Minister of America. He also said Washington intended to “put a lot of pressure” on the Pakistanis to remove terrorist safe havens and deal with groups like the Haqqani network that are responsible for cross-border attacks.

In its news on India’s “proxy” operations in Pakistan, the Washington Post, quoting unnamed Pakistani and Western officials, claimed that the Indian intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has been operating “at least half a dozen” inside Pakistan since 2021. Is running a program to kill people.