Authorities in Pakistan have rejected a claim by Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar that Israel's intelligence agency Mossad had allegedly planned to assassinate Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and members of the Pakistani delegation during their recent Switzerland visit.
The allegation was made by Escobar during a podcast hosted by Lebanese-Australian political commentator Mario Nawfal, where he claimed that Pakistan's military had received 'credible intelligence' about an alleged Israeli plan targeting Munir and other Pakistani officials travelling to Switzerland for diplomatic engagements linked to recent US-Iran talks.
Pakistani officials moved quickly to deny the allegation, with a senior security official describing it as 'absolutely rubbish and complete nonsense.'
The official said the entire Swiss visit by the Pakistani delegation, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, 'proceeded like clockwork' and that 'Pakistan's security arrangements remained fully in place throughout the Prime Minister's and the Field Marshal's stay in Lucerne.'
The official dismissed the assassination claim as 'baseless fiction with no connection to reality' and said there was no indication of any threat during the delegation's stay in Lucerne.
