AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi, part of the all-party delegation led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda, on Wednesday called for Pakistan to be put back on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list to curb terror financing.Speaking during an interaction in Riyadh, Owaisi accused Pakistan of training terrorist organisations aimed at destabilising India.“…Pakistan must be brought back to the FATF grey list. That is where we will be able to control this terror financing of all these terrorist organisations,” Owaisi said, citing a photo of Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir alongside US-designated terrorist Mohammad Ehsan. “There are photographs of him shaking hands with this field marshal. There is clear evidence of Pakistan’s involvement. These terror groups are prospering over there, they are being trained over there, and the whole task is to destabilise India to create more Hindu Muslim riots in India.“Referring to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Owaisi criticised Pakistan’s inaction despite evidence shared by Indian investigators.“After 26/11, my government, headed by the then Prime Minister, late Dr Manmohan Singh, the Indian investigators went to Pakistan, gave them all the evidence, but you’ll be surprised to know that nothing moved forward,” AIMIM chief said.He credited FATF pressure for forcing Pakistan to acknowledge the presence of key accused Sajid Mir. “Pakistan said he’s dead… Pakistan came up to the Committee of FATF and said Sajid Mir is alive. Can you imagine the country which was saying he’s dead, suddenly, he’s alive? And then the Pakistani government said that our courts have convicted him for some 5 to 10 years, but the main culprits of the 26/11 are still scot-free. They were convicted of money laundering, not for terrorism.”Owaisi said, “This is the most unfortunate that Pakistan gives out a wrong message to the Arab world and the Muslim world that we are a Muslim country and India is not. There are 240 million proud Indian Muslims living in India… This is Pakistan’s false propaganda that India is hurting them because they are a Muslim country. If Pakistan stops these takfiri terrorist groups, there will be stability in South Asia, there’ll be progress in South Asia...”Owaisi also underlined the role of Indian agencies during the Mumbai attacks, mentioning how they recorded conversations between the attackers and their handlers.“…The Indian legal system followed all the due process of law, and Ajmal Kasab was sentenced to death, and he revealed many things. Our agencies were capable enough to record the audio conversations in which the terrorist group, sitting in Pakistan, were having with terrorists who were killing Indians in five-star hotels… they were clearly told them not to lose heart, kill as many Indians as you can, and you’ll go to Jannat.“The multi-party delegation, including BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey, Phangnon Konyak, Rekha Sharma; AIMIM MP Owaisi; Satnam Singh Sandhu MP; Ghulam Nabi Azad; and Ambassador Harsh Shringla, is visiting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Algeria. The team is briefing international leaders on India’s response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and the country’s broader stand against cross-border terrorism.The initiative, comprising seven delegations led by different MPs, aims to combat global misinformation and project India’s zero-tolerance stance on terrorism.
