NEW DELHI – A dossier, nailing the culpability of Pakistan in the terrorattack in Pulwama, will be given to the FATF, an international terrorfinancing watchdog, to expose the neighbouring country’s links withterrorism and seeking its blacklisting, officials said Saturday, PTI hasreported.
Security agencies are preparing the dossier with the evidence gathered sofar related to the attack carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammadand the help being provided to the outfit by the country, they said.
This will be a dossier on Pakistani agencies’ links with the JeM and howthe terror group is being aided by them, a security official said.
The details of the terror attacks carried out by the JeM in the past willbe mentioned in the document.The Paris-headquartered Financial Action TaskForce (FATF) will also be told through the dossier how the Pakistaniagencies are providing funds to the JeM, the official said.
In the next meeting of the FATF, India will also press for the blacklistingof Pakistan so that that action can be taken against the country, anotherofficial said.The FATF plenary and working group meetings will be held inParis next week.The FATF blacklist means the country concerned is”non-cooperative” in the global fight against money laundering andterrorist financing.
If the FATF blacklists Pakistan, it may lead to downgrading of the countryby multilateral lenders like IMF, World Bank, ADB, EU and also a reductionin risk rating by Moodys, S&P and Fitch.
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Pakistan has been put on the grey list of the anti-terror finance watchdogin July 2018. The FATF currently has 35 members and two regionalorganisations European Commission and Gulf Cooperation Council.
North Korea and Iran are in the FATF blacklist.Forty CRPF personnel werekilled and five injured on Thursday in one of the deadliest terror attacksin Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber rammed avehicle carrying explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.
The bus was part of a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying CRPF personnel fromJammu to Srinagar.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said thoseresponsible for the attack will pay “a very heavy price” and securityforces will be given a free hand to deal with the terrorists.In ahard-hitting speech, Modi said the “blood of the people is boiling” andforces behind the act of terrorism will be definitely punished”.
