India, June 25 -- Authorities in Pakistan have rejected as "complete nonsense" 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.

Escobar claimed that the alleged plot was connected to meeting...