KOCHI - An admission by India’s Defence Minister that the country’s intelligence agency may have carried out the assassinations of over 20 people in Pakistan could boost the Indian Prime Minister’s election chances, but at the same time damage New Delhi’s relations with other countries.
While some voters in the election-bound country might find the idea of anti-terrorism extrajudicial killings appealing, raising the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their eyes, the lawlessness of such acts carried out in another country could draw condemnation from foreign governments.
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