India’s nefarious designs have once again have exposed after its links have been proven in the Johar Town explosion in Lahore last week. The Indian media rejoiced at Pakistan being retained in the FATF’s grey list but it is now involved itself in terror financing and other subversive activities.
Pakistani law-enforcement agencies uncovered the entire network swiftly which clearly pointed to “Indian-sponsored terrorism.” National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf said the mastermind of the terror was an Indian citizen associated with RAW. All evidence including fake identities, names and locations clearly points out that India was involved in terrorism against Pakistan. To stop the probe and being exposed, India resorted to thousands of coordinated cyberattacks against the information infrastructure which were foiled.
NSA Moeed Yusuf stated unequivocally in a press conference that ‘concrete evidence’, including telephonic and financial records, had been unearthed during the investigation – and it all points to India. More worryingly, he revealed thousands of cyberattacks on the country’s investigative infrastructure in a purported attempt to thwart the probe into the attack. The government has also said that the Jadhav case already amply proves Indian involvement in destabilising Pakistan. Meanwhile, the foreign minister has vowed to – once again – share with the world evidence of India’s nefarious designs and funding of terrorism inside Pakistan, while Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for the mobilisation of international institutions against India’s rogue behaviour.
Unfortunately, Pakistan has presented such documented proof in the past as well, with barely any reverberations in the outside world. Besides Jadhav’s video confessions of fomenting terrorism inside the country, last year Pakistan prepared a dossier on Indian-sponsored terrorism and presented it to the United Nations and other key global players. Sharing the dossier’s details in November last year, DG ISPR Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, along with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, had revealed features of Indian plans to strike inside Pakistan through activities planned from its consulates in Afghanistan, as well as specifics of funds transfers originating in India for the purpose. The foreign minister had asked the world to take notice of the ‘undeniable evidence’ of Indian plans to destabilise Pakistan. The prime minister, too, had expressed hope that after looking at the “irrefutable evidence” given by Pakistan, the world would not remain “indifferent or silent”, and “force India to end its terrorism”.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has gone as far as calling on the FATF to take action against India, which, while a valid argument, would require the presentation of evidence acceptable to the world community. As we noted, this bar is either much higher than our leaders understand it to be, or the world isn’t interested, and such talk is only meant to generate soundbites for local audiences. There is merit to both arguments, given the fate of the last dossier and the recent conflicting statements by Qureshi and other cabinet members on the FATF. It is also clear that Qureshi has not learned from the hints being dropped by foreign diplomats in international media outlets, as he continues to accuse the FATF of being politicised, forgetting that such name-calling is not going to make any foreign power warm to Pakistan’s position.
Shafaqna Pakistan
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