India Today’s exclusive investigation revealed that Pak-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad has been on an overdrive to collect funds since Pakistan’s exit from the grey list of the global terror funding watchdog.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 22, 2022 18:01 IST
Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism has not stopped, Arindam Bagchi said (File)
By Akshay Dongare: India is closely monitoring the situation to ensure the country is protected from terrorism stemming from Pakistan, the Ministry of External Affairs said today.
The ministry was responding to India Today’s exclusive investigation that revealed the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has gone on an overdrive to collect funds since Pakistan’s exit from the grey list of the global terror funding watchdog – the FATF – earlier this year.
The JeM was banned in Pakistan in 2002 and has been sanctioned by the United Nations.
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“India has been emphasizing the importance of ensuring that Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism stops but it has not. If organizations are trying to do that, it is not a new development in the country’s history. But India expects that the international community will continue its efforts to stop that,” the MEA’s official spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, said.
“India is monitoring the situation to ensure that we are protected from terrorism emanating from Pakistan,” he added.
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The investigation by India Today revealed that the JeM, responsible for several terror activities in India, including the hijack of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999, the 2001 attack on parliament and the 2016 attack at the Pathankot base, has widened its annual fund collection drive, reaching out to people to build new mosques.
The target money for one mosque is a crore Pakistani Rupees (PKR) – the per square foot estimation is 1,800 PKR and a prayer carpet for each mosque is estimated to cost 16,000 PKR, according to the material supplied by the group over messaging platforms.
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