According to a global investigation report, India includes the countries list that were using an Israeli company’s spyware-hacking tool, to make attempts of successful hacking of smartphones that belongs to journalists, government officials & human rights activists around the world.

And after the investigation by 17 media organisations, it was said that at least one number once used by PM Imran Khan was on the India’s list. It means India was spying on PM khan.

The published reported contains information that over 1,000 Indian numbers were included on the list, along with the hundreds of numbers from Pakistan also showed up on the Indian monitoring list, involving one which was once used by the prime minister Imran Khan. While report did not verify if the attempt on the prime Minister’s number was effective or not.

The report says that many journalists, campaigners, opposition politicians, senior government officials, business managers, public health specialists, Tibetan refugees and foreign ambassadors both from Indian and Pakistan, have been included in the list.

Chaudhry Fawad Hussain- Minister for Information and Broadcasting, while responding to the press reports suggested in a tweet that “unethical policies of the Modi government have dangerously polarized India and the region.”

Minister further added that he is extremely concerned on the news reports rising from the Guardian that Indian Govt used Israeli software to spy on journalists, political opponents & politicians.

Shireen Mazari-Federal Human Rights Minister also tackled the development & stated “part two” of the report on how the Indian Govt had spied on its own ministers was expected today.

As per the data provided by the American report, the leaked Indian list also contained numbers for Rahul Gandhi, India’s major opposition leader; Ashok Lavasa, a main electoral officer along with hundreds of other numbers deemed a barrier to the governing party.

Two numbers that belonged to Rahul Gandhi were chosen as candidates for potential surveillance in the year before the vote & in the months later by NSO, whose spying tool Pegasus allows clients to gain access to mobile phones & monitor messages, camera channels & microphones, said the report.