Islamabad has called on the United Nations to probe into India’s likely use of Israeli spyware Pegasus to spy on Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

A phone number belonging to Khan was included on a leaked list of over 50,000 mobile phone numbers selected for possible surveillance by customers of Israeli firm NSO group, which built Pegasus, since 2016.

The extent of the use of Pegasus was reported on Sunday by 17 international media outlets who collaborated on an investigation into the leaked data.

In a statement issued on Friday, Pakistan’s Foreign Office accused India of “state-sponsored, continuing and widespread surveillance and spying operations in clear breach of global norms of responsible state behavior.”

“In view of the gravity of these reports, we call on the relevant UN bodies to thoroughly investigate the matter, bring the facts to light, and hold the Indian perpetrators to account,” it said.

Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their partition in 1947, two of them over Kashmir, the Himalayan region that both claim in full.

The Foreign Office said Delhi had long been using such tactics in the Indian-administered Kashmir.

“We are closely following these revelations and will bring the Indian abuses to the attention of appropriate global platforms,” it added.