Mehbooba Mufti's Family, Kashmiri Journalists Among Pegasus 'Targets'

Mehbooba Mufti's family members were chosen for potential surveillance just months before the government collapsed as the BJP pulled out of the coalition in June 2018, it said.

Family members of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, a former ally of the BJP, some Delhi-based Kashmiri journalists, key separatist leaders, human rights activists, business persons are among the people listed as potential targets of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus' - available only to governments - in the latest tranche of explosive revelations by news portal The Wire. The Wire, which is part of a media consortium investigating alleged surveillance using Pegasus, said at least two members of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) chief and former chief minister of Jammu And Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti's family were on the list. Their selection as potential targets of surveillance happened when Ms Mufti was still the chief minister of the erstwhile state and in a coalition with the BJP, The Wire said. Ms Mufti's family members were chosen for potential surveillance just months before the government collapsed as the BJP pulled out of the coalition in June 2018, it said.