US Report Punches Holes in Pakistan’s Claim that Terrorist Masood Azhar is ‘Missing’
Record photograph of JeM leader Masood Azhar.
The United States file says Pakistan “didn’t take motion towards different identified terrorists akin to JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and 2008 Mumbai assault ‘venture supervisor’ Sajid Mir, either one of whom are believed to stay unfastened in Pakistan”.
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The United States State Division Nation Studies on Terrorism 2019 has punched holes in a declare that Pakistan made to the Monetary Motion Process Power (FATF) previous this yr — that terrorist Masood Azhar is “lacking”.
The US report says that Pakistan “didn’t take motion towards different identified terrorists akin to JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and 2008 Mumbai assault ‘venture supervisor’ Sajid Mir, either one of whom are believed to stay unfastened in Pakistan”.
The file additionally raps Pakistan for proceeding to behave as “protected harbour” for different locally targeted terrorist teams. It allowed teams focused on India, “together with LeT and its affiliated entrance organisations, and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), to function from its territory”, stated the file.
Alternatively, the file added that Pakistan took “modest steps” in 2019 to counter terror financing and restrain India-focused militant teams from engaging in large-scale assaults following the February assault on a safety convoy in Jammu and Kashmir related to Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
In a while later on, world terror financing watchdog FATF determined to stay Pakistan in the “Grey List” because it has failed to test go with the flow of cash to terror teams just like the LeT and the JeM, officers stated. The verdict was once taken on the Monetary Motion Process Power’s 3rd and ultimate plenary held just about because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The direct point out of JeM to Pulwama additionally endorses India’s declare that the assault wherein 40 CRPF jawans had been killed was once performed by means of the Azhar-headed terror outfit. Pakistan had “rejected Indian allegations”, calling them “knee-jerk and pre-conceived.”
As reported by means of Information18.com in February, Pakistan had advised the FATF job drive that Azhar and his circle of relatives had been lacking, so no motion might be taken towards him. Intelligence assets had advised Information18 that if Pakistan lies could be unmasked in the event that they repeat such claims as India had the precise coordinates of Azhar.
Assets had stated that Azhar was once in Chakshahzad and was once sheltered by means of the Pakistan ISI. Azhar was once designated a world terrorist by means of the United Countries Safety Council 1267 sanctions committee in Might ultimate yr after the Pulwama Terror assault.
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