Several Delhi-based diplomats staff of international NGOs on Pegasus list

Phone associated with Imran Khan among targets, along with staff of Gates Foundation

While reports of Indian politicians and journalists being targets of surveillance operations carried out , French newspaper Le Monde reported that several Delhi-based diplomats were also on the list of potential targets for phone hacking from 2017-2021, along with a phone associated with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. On Monday, media organisations in the 17-member consortium published more details of the leaked database allegedly belonging to , the NSO group, that developed Pegasus. U.S.-based Washington Post, UK-based The Guardian and The Wire in India reported that the telephone numbers of a British High Commission official and two officials of the American Centre for Disease Control (CDC), and employees of international NGOs like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were also in the database of those targeted. New Delhi has hostile relations with China and Pakistan at present, and their diplomats are under close watch, but it is significant that the list included several countries that India has very friendly ties with as well.