ISLAMABAD: India’s baseless propaganda against Pakistan has once again beenexposed as its claim of finding trail of money allegedly used by mainaccused in Pulwama attack case has fallen flat on its face.
On August 28, India claimed to find a trail of Rs 1.043 million allegedlyused for terror-financing in Pulwama incident, saying that two accounts ofPulwama attack accused Muhammad Umer Farooq were allegedly being maintainedin Peshawar and Khyber Agency banks. India’s National Investigation Agencyhad claimed that the money used for terrorism was credited into theseaccounts.
Two cheques of Umer Farooq were also shown on Indian media, one each fromMeezan Bank and Allied Bank. In another Indian media report, the allegedCNIC of Umer Farooq was also displayed.
On receipt of information, the authorities concerned in Pakistanimmediately sought information from banks about the alleged accounts,including the CNIC of account holders, account statements and otherrelevant details.
INDIA FAILED TO PROVIDE ANY CREDIBLE EVIDENCE FOR ITS INVECTIVE AND HASINSTEAD BEEN USING THE ATTACK FOR ITS MALICIOUS PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINSTPAKISTAN
Regarding the Meezan Bank account, it was said that one Umer Farooq openedindividual Rupee current account in Peshawar on January 18, 2017 for spareparts business.
Majority of online receipts are from Quetta, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.Moreover, at the time of account opening, the biometric verification wascarried out, which is mandatory for any account opening in Pakistan.
Regarding Allied Bank account, it was claimed that a personal account wasopened by one Umer Farooq on March 31, 2018 in Khyber Agency for scrapbusiness. Majority of credits into the account came through online cashdeposit.
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Cash withdrawals were done from where the bank is located as well asthrough ATM. At the time of account opening, biometric verification of theaccount holder was also carried out.It is pertinent to mention here that the CNIC shown by Indian media isdifferent than that held with above-mentioned banks against the saidaccounts. During the investigation, difference in complete name, CNICnumber, father’s name as well as date of birth came to surface.
The NDTV declared Umer Farooq as dead while a representative of Allied Banktalked to the account holder on phone during the investigation process.India has claimed that Umer Farooq entered Jammu in April 2018, whereas thecheque image of Meezan Bank is of August 2018. The bank confirmed that UmerFarooq is available at his place in Peshawar since a bank representativevisited him and a certified visit report in this regard was also providedby the bank.
The Foreign Office in Islamabad has already rejected the charge sheet filedby India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Pulwama attack case,stating that the fabrications in the report are designed to further theBharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) anti-Pakistan rhetoric and its narrowdomestic political interests.
In a statement last week, Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Chaudhri hadsaid that Islamabad categorically rejected the so-called charge sheet bythe NIA which mischievously attempted to implicate Pakistan in the Pulwamaattack.
“India failed to provide any credible evidence for its invective and hasinstead been using the attack for its malicious propaganda campaign againstPakistan,” he had said.
