Despite being retained on the Grey List of FATF, Pakistan continues to fund the terror organisations and the country’s state actors are still backing terror outfits. Terror organisations such as Hafiz Saeed’s LeT and Masood Azhar’s JeM are still getting financial help under different names from Pakistan.
According to sources, India has collected fresh evidence exposing Pakistan’s continued funding to the terror outfits under different names. Sources told The Daily Guardian that Indian diplomats have recently shared the fresh ‘set of evidence’ with both the United Nations (UN) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters. What is worth mentioning is that in order to fool the global community Hafiz Saeed had founded what he called a social organisation Jamat-un-Dawah, which is actually the smokescreen behind which terror activities were carried out. Sources say that this outfit still gets funding from Pakistani government.
After bombing by drones at the Jammu air force base on June 27, India has further intensified its diplomatic effort to expose Pakistan’s hobnobbing with terror actors. “Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and the country’s army continue to support terrorist training camps operation on Pakistan’s soil,” UN and FATF were told.
Top diplomatic sources said that a set of solid and fresh evidence to this effect was provided to the top global forums. India is keen to highlight the fact that despite recent admonishment by FATF, Pakistan continues to show reluctance to take action against terrorists Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar.
The global terror financing and money laundering watchdog FATF had instructed Pakistan to take credible action against these terrorists. Hafiz Saeed was the mastermind of Mumbai attacks, while Masood’s Jaish-e-Mohammad was behind the Pulwama blast. Both top the list of most wanted terrorists given to Pakistan by India. But no action has been taken against them by Pakistan.
On the contrary, Hafiz Saeed’s residence has been given police protection which came to light after a blast happened there. Heavy Pakistani police deployment was already there to protect his house. Moreover, Hafiz Saeed was allowed to visit his home even while he was in jail. The jail sentence is also nothing more than a way to fool the global community and institutions like FATF. Sources say that Jamat-ud-Dawa founder Saeed enjoys a homely comfort in jail. All these issues have been raised by India through diplomatic channels. “Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar are in jail after years of walking free just to fool the world,” say officials.
India recently told the UN General Assembly that it is high time the international community called on Pakistan to take “effective and irreversible” actions against terror outfits operating on its soil. India also said that Islamabad should not take the “high road of morality which is only laden with mines of falsehood.”
India has reminded the United Nations of what Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan said in June last year. He had publicly acknowledged the presence of up to 40,000 terrorists in Pakistan and that terrorists from there have attacked the neighbouring countries.