Pakistan rejects India’s propaganda on terror funding

ISLAMABAD      –          Pakistan yesterday rejected baseless propaganda and irresponsible remarks by Indian management at ‘No Cash for Terror’ ministerial assembly. Islamabad strongly rejected all references and insinuations by the Indian management directed towards it on the so-called ‘No Cash for Terror’ ministerial assembly held in New Delhi. “Guided by its incorrigible and incurable want to malign Pakistan at each accessible discussion board, India continues to mislead the world about Pakistan’s counter-terrorism credentials by repeatedly levelling false accusations of Pakistan’s alleged involvement in financing of proscribed terrorist organizations,” stated Overseas Workplace spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch. She added: “India’s hole rhetoric has fallen flat within the face of Pakistan’s profitable counterterrorism measures, which have been accorded due recognition and acknowledgement from the premier worldwide physique on counterterrorism, anti-money laundering and terror financing, i.e. the Monetary Motion Activity Power (FATF). Our sturdy and credible AML/CFT actions, and passable implementation of FATF Motion Plans duly secured Pakistan’s profitable removing off the Gray Checklist, this October.” Regrettably, she stated, “India is constant its relentless terror marketing campaign within the IIOJK. There isn’t any justification for India’s state-sponsored terrorism in IIOJK, the place its safety forces terrorize, torment and torture harmless Kashmiris with impunity, day by day.” Most deplorably, the spokesperson stated, India had been harbouring and defending terrorists for many years. In 2019, it acquitted Swami Aseemanand, the primary character of the 2007 Samjhauta Categorical blast that killed 43 Pakistani residents on the Indian soil. Earlier this yr, the Indian courts launched 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case throughout the 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat. “Equally, throughout the 26/11 Mumbai assaults trial, India intentionally withheld witnesses and credible proof from Pakistani courts, regardless of repeated requests during the last fourteen years, solely to pull and perpetuate the case to serve its sinister political agenda,” she added. The spokesperson stated India’s involvement in inciting terrorism inside Pakistan is broadly established and documented. In November 2020, Pakistan had launched a complete file offering proof of India’s involvement in subversive actions in Pakistan. “The convicted, serving, Indian Naval commander Kulbhushan Yadav is simple proof of India’s direct involvement in sabotage and terror. Indian hyperlinks to TTP and different parts inimical to Pakistan inside Afghanistan are additionally well-known,” she stated. She urged upon worldwide neighborhood to carry India accountable for its actions in IIOJK, its patronage of terrorist entities and for fomenting terror in neighboring international locations. “India can also be suggested to instantly reform and rectify its personal credentials on terrorism and desist from shamelessly levelling false accusations towards Pakistan for egocentric political pursuits,” Baloch stated.