Islamabad: Pakistan categorically rejected the malicious statement by theIndian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), regarding conviction of aUN-designated individual by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan.
India has no locus standi to comment on the independent judicial mechanismsof Pakistan. In this regard the only ‘compliance’ that interests Pakistanis abiding by its own statutes and fulfillment of its internationalobligations, said foreign office in a statement.
The investigations, prosecutions and subsequent convictions, through dueprocess, are a reflection of the effectiveness of Pakistan’s legal system,which operates independent of any extraneous factors or influences. India’sassertions to link Pakistan’s due legal process with FATF are unfortunate.It is yet another Indian attempt to politicize FATF and use its processesagainst Pakistan. Pakistan reiterates its commitment to impartiality,confidentiality and technical nature of the FATF process.
Indian insinuations against Pakistan are in fact a vain attempt to concealits failures to bring to justice those blatantly involved in stateterrorism and brutal suppression against the subjugated people of IIOJK andother minority communities.
As for the hypocritical Indian assertions regarding the ‘terrorinfrastructure’ and ‘individual terrorists’, irrefutable evidence hasalready been provided by Pakistan to the international community of theactive aiding, abetting, planning, promoting, financing and execution ofterrorist activities by India against Pakistan, with impunity.
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India would do well to put its own house in order and rein in its terrorinfrastructure that is aimed at destabilizing India’s neighboring countriesin order to fulfill the extremist agenda of the RSS-BJP regime.
We also expect the UN counter-terrorism bodies to proceed on the basis ofconcrete evidence provided by Pakistan; urge India to renounce the use ofterrorism as an instrument of state policy; and play their part in securingthe dismantling of the Indian terrorist infrastructure.
