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 The Wire September 23, 2020 By: Karan Thapar In a powerful and passionate interview with frequent flashes of anger and displays of emotion, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has said that at this moment the Kashmiri people do not feel and do not want to be Indian. He even went so far as to say that they would rather be ruled by the Chinese, a point he reiterated when he was asked if he really meant this. Abdullah, who heads the National Conference party and had been the most prominent ‘pro-India’ face in Jammu and Kashmir for the past four decades, also described the Kashmiris as slaves who were being treated like second class citizens. In a 44-minute interview to   The Wire , Abdullah said it was complete rubbish for the Bharatiya Janata Party to claim that the people of Kashmir have accepted the August 2019 changes just because there have been no protests. He said if the soldiers on every street and Section 144 were to be lifted, people will come ...

Hindustan Times  Date:July 30, 2020 Kanishka Sarkar: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) related legislation will move the country from grey list to white list, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi claimed on Wednesday. “This FATF-related legislation will move us to the white list from grey list,” he was quoted as saying while speaking over FATF-related legislation from the Parliament. According to a Dawn report, the Pakistan government on Wednesday “managed to get two Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-related bills passed by the National Assembly amidst a noisy protest by the opposition.” Last month, India had stated that Pakistan continuing to be in Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) ‘Grey List’ vindicates its position that Islamabad has not taken appropriate action against terror financing and safe havens which exist in that country. “Pakistan continues to be on the FATF’s Grey List. It is yet to show action on 13 out of 27 items of its...

The Hindu  Date: july 30, 2020 PTI,  The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Amendment Bill, 2020, and the Anti-Terrorism Act Amendment Bill, 2020, were presented by Advisor to Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Senator Babar Awan. Pakistan’s Senate on Thursday unanimously approved two Bills related to the tough conditions set by the global money laundering and terrorist financing. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-senate-approves-two-fatf-related-bills/article32230923.ece

Adeela Naureen/Umar Waqar July 13, 2020 Since the Independence, Pakistan found an eager hostile neighbour trying to undo the very idea of this new independent Muslim state. Indian subversion in erstwhile East Pakistan imploded the fault line with its western wing and Pakistan was dismembered. Did India stop there, certainly not? Post 9/11, India found a favorable strategic environment for sabotage and subversion in Pakistan and this was taken to a new level of violence through state-sponsored terrorism by India. Collection of data, the case for state-sponsored terrorism be presented to the ICJ and the UNSC for involvement of Indian agencies in sponsoring and abetting terrorism in Pakistan. The below-mentioned statements of Indian political leaders substantiate Pakistan’s apprehensions about India’s involvement in terrorism in Pakistan. They also confirm that India plans and initiates subversive propaganda apart from state sponsored terrorism: = Modi in his Indep...

The Hindu March 03, 2020 PTI Pakistan’s anti-corruption watchdog on Monday filed fresh cases against former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Yousuf Raza Gilani and former President Asif Ali Zardari for misuse of authority and buying vehicles given by foreign leaders as gifts. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed the cases in an accountability court in Islamabad. According to NAB, during his tenure as Prime Minister, Mr. Gilani relaxed rules to allow Mr. Zardari and Mr. Sharif to buy expensive vehicles gifted to them by foreign leaders. As per law, the vehicles were state properties and could not be used for personal purposes. NAB claimed that Mr. Zardari and Mr. Sharif used dishonest and illegal means and bought the vehicles by paying a “nominal payment of 15% of the total value”. It said Mr. Zardari made the payments for the vehicles through the Omni Group CEO and his son “for which he has no plausible justification“. “It was established dur...

Business Line February 28, 2020 PTI India and France agreed to deepen their counter-terrorism cooperation on Friday, stressing the need to deny safe havens and sources of funding to terrorists. The two countries held the 14th Meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism in New Delhi at which a inter-agency Indian delegation was led by Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary Mahaveer Singhvi, while the French delegation was led by David Bertolotti, Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic, Security and Disarmament Affairs of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Both sides condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and stressed the need for strengthening international cooperation to combat terrorism in a comprehensive and sustained manner, a Ministry of External Affairs statement said. “They exchanged views on current counter-terrorism challenges including countering radicalization, combating financing of terrorism, prevent...

Hindustan Times February 28, 2020 Pakistan’s new bid to combat terror allows widening of trade ties: US Commerce Secy Pakistan’s fresh efforts to fight terrorism and promote security is “affording” the US to expand trade between the two countries and in the region, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said after meeting the country’s top leadership here.  Ross was in Islamabad on Wednesday, a day after US President Donald Trump concluded his high-profile maiden visit to India, and called on Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Minister of Energy Omar Ayub Khan and others. Building on the productive discussions between President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, “I met with Prime Minister Khan and his economic team today in Islamabad to explore ways to grow the US-Pakistan trade and investment relationship, including in the energy and digital sectors,” Ross said in a statement. “Deepening our economic ties will...

By Paul Cruickshank, CNN Terrorism analyst Updated 1827 GMT (0227 HKT) January 29, 2020 (CNN)ISIS has begun reasserting itself in Iraq and Syria under a new leader assessed to be an Iraqi operative who was a driving force behind the terror group's genocide against the Yazidi people, according to a report submitted to the UN Security Council which was made public on Wednesday. The wide-ranging report, compiled by the UN Monitoring Team that tracks the global jihadi terror threat, refers to the group by its alternate name stating the "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), following its loss of territory, has begun to reassert itself in both the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq, mounting increasingly bold insurgent attacks, calling and planning for the breakout of ISIL fighters in detention facilities and exploiting weaknesses in the security environment of both countries." It has been clear for some time that one reason for ISIS's resilience is its dee...

Business Line The potential blacklisting of Pakistan by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could have implications for capital inflows to the country, according to a report released by the IMF. The FATF, a global watchdog for terror financing, that kept Pakistan on the Grey List for an extended period till February 2020, had warned in October that Islamabad would be put on the ‘Black List’ if it did not comply with the remaining 22 points in a list of 27 questions. Pakistan submitted a report comprising answers to 22 questions to the FATF on December 6. “A potential blacklisting by FATF could result in a freeze of capital flows and lower investment to Pakistan,” said the IMF in its staff-level report that was finalised during the visit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team to Pakistan. The IMF programme continues to face significant risks, both from domestic and external factors, the report added. Terrorism financing investigations Potent...

Indian Express December 03, 2019 Published By: Anonymous Hafiz Saeed is the founder and leader of the Islamist terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that follows the Ahle-Haith interpretation of Islam An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Saturday announced that it would indict Jamat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and other leaders of his outfits who were booked this July under charges of terror financing. The  indictment will take place on December 7 . Under pressure from the international community, Pakistan has been trying to investigate matters pertaining to the functioning and funding of the LeT, its charitable wing the JuD and its other branches in a bid to convince Paris-based watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), that it is taking enough steps to stop terror financing. At the moment, Pakistan has been placed in FATF’s grey list, making it difficult for the country to raise money on the bond market Hafiz S...