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‘Rs 14 Crore Given To Masood Azhar From Tax Collected From Pak Citizens’: Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed that money from IMF loan is being diverted to rebuild the terrorist infrastructure destroyed by India.

Rajnath Singh said Pakistan has already initiated releasing funds to rebuild terrorist infrastructure.

Addressing soldiers at a military base in Gujarat, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh offered a stark warning about the Pakistan government’s plans to “spend tax collected from its citizens” to give compensation to Masood Azhar, designated an ‘international terrorist’ by the United Nations, for the damages to Jaish-e-Mohammed infrastructure during India’s military strikes under Operation Sindoor. He said Rs 14 crore will be diverted from the government fund to rebuild the terrorist infrastructure destroyed by India.
Masood Azhar” is the head of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed group that was behind the 2019 Pulwama and 2016 Uri attacks.
Singh said Pakistan has already initiated releasing funds to rebuild terrorist infrastructure. Under Operation Sindoor, India carried out military strikes targeting terrorist launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The operation was launched a fortnight after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack by another Pak-based terror group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

This rebuilding, the Defence Minister claimed, is being funded by the Pak government by diverting the $2.1 billion loan support provided by the International Monetary Fund.

“Pak will spend tax collected from citizens to give Rs 14 crore to Masood Azhar, the head of the Jaish terrorist organisation, even though he is a UN-designated terrorist. The Pak government has also said it will give financial assistance to rebuild terror infrastructure of Lashkar and Jaish, in Muridke and Bahawalpur,” Singh told soldiers at a military base in Gujarat’s Bhuj.
The Defence Minister made the remarks days after India red flagged IMF’s loan extention to the Pakistan government despite adequate evidence on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.
“The IMF’s aid to Pakistan is form of indirect funding to terror,” Singh said today, urging IMF should reconsider its decision.”
Last week India had abstained during voting on IMF’s proposal to extend fresh loans – worth a $2.3 billion to Pak – warning the funds could be misused for financing state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.
Pak’s ‘Terror Funder’ Status
In 2018 Pakistan was put on a ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force, a global watchdog for financing terrorism and money laundering. It was removed from the list after four years.

 

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