India continues downplaying Pakistan’s counter-terror efforts

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A FATF meeting which concluded on Thursday saw a bit of standoff between Pakistani and Indian officials over the questions regarding Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Earlier, Pakistan presented its mitigatory actions to curb the money laundering and terror financing on the lines of directions given by Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

The Paris based global financial watchdog had expressed its satisfaction over a measure which was proposed by Pakistan to scrutinize financial transaction ensuring that money does not reach the wrong hands. It was then the Indian officials raised a question about how Pakistan plans to go about ensuring that groups like Lashkar e Taiba and Jiash e Mohammed are not financed.

The infliction of 5th generation war upon Pakistan and it was working quite well for the conventional adversary of Pakistan.

Pakistani officials responded that verbal question coming from adversaries would not be responded to; however, any concern needs to be conveyed in written form which would duly be catered as per the norms. Later, a list of 28 questions concerning the banned outfits in Pakistan was handed over which would be replied to in the review meeting of FATF scheduled in the next month.

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India’s Bid to Keep the Image of Pakistan Tainted

It is of course no longer hidden to anyone that India has been using the proxy war inside Pakistan over the years to spread the tainted and extremist image of the country to the world. Current world order, which has integrated economies and trade relations, actually depends upon the security of investment which corresponds to the overall security condition of the particular country.

Lack of security, or even such projection, tends to pull away investors eventually leading to lack of trade. When a country suffers economically, it tends to go down from security to welfare spectrum losing its ability to respond to extraneous and internal threats. It was precisely the plan which was worked upon over the years. The infliction of 5th generation war upon Pakistan and it was working quite well for the conventional adversary of Pakistan.

A FATF meeting which concluded on Thursday saw a bit of standoff between Pakistani and Indian officials over the questions regarding Lashkar-e-Taiba.

There have been some overwhelming developments among country’s overall leadership envisaging the challenges faced on the economic and national security front. The country is trying to focus on a trade-oriented economy to boost up growth and the same time the constant threats coming from the western border are dealt with accordingly. Even most of the undocumented money was coming from the frontier region of Iran and Afghanistan due to its topographical formation.

It was the lawless Afghan land which has repeatedly been used by Indian intelligentsia to spread anarchy and chaos inside Pakistan under “Doval Doctrine”. Ajit Doval, the Indian National Security Advisor, has stated on record how efficient it would be to use the proxies to wage India’s war inside Pakistan and with recent attacks on Chinese consulates along with countless other incidents, the doctrine seems to be very much in action.

Read more: India’s dirty war inside Pakistan – Part II

When the loopholes along the conventional and feasible terrain, Afghanistan, are plugged by Pakistani security forces, India has tried to malign the integrity of a forum like FATF to propagate its vested agenda. “The proceedings went well and almost all the FATF members appreciated measures taken by Pakistan and actions planned by it,” told one of the Pakistani officials who attended the FATF meeting held in Australia.

When a broad consensus and appreciation had been achieved on part of the FATF as a whole regarding Pakistan’s efforts, India tried to once again bring in old rhetoric just to keep the image of Pakistan tainted which suits its purpose.

As already stated that Iran and Afghanistan are the regions from where illegal cash mostly enters Pakistan for the financing of terrorists and both the countries are being used by India for orchestration of attacks inside Pakistan. While it is important that the flow of illegal cash must be halted for good, it is equally significant for Pakistan to highlight the issue and world to acknowledge that who actually is behind this dirty warmongering game.