Former Indian Army chief General (retd) VK Singh who is now a Union Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet has called for the blacklisting of Pakistan Financial Action Task Force (FATF) after the public admission by Pakistan Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhry who spoke in the Pakistani National Assembly and said he is proud of his government’s role in Pulwama terror attack.
According to Singh, this statement made by Chaudhry in Pakistan Parliament vindicates India’s stand on carrying out the Balakot airstrike, reports Times Now.
He reportedly told news agency ANI, “I would like to thank him for admitting the truth concerning Pulwama terror attack. We had said right in the beginning that all the leads point towards Pakistan. The government of India subsequently took action against the terrorists that were harboured in Pakistan.”
“I am sure our government will utilise this admission by Pakistan to tell the world that Pakistan needs to be blacklisted by FATF and that nobody should give aid to Pakistan,” he added.
Chaudhry who is known to make outlandish statements while speaking at the National Assembly called the cowardly suicide car bomb attack carried out by Islamic terrorists who belonged to the banned Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) a “great achievement”.
Pakistan’s Science and Technology minister Fawad Chaudhry went on to say that the Pulwama terror attack that killed forty Indian Para-Military personals was undertaken under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The reason for Chaudhry to make such a statement which only provided India with more evidence of Pakistan state-sponsored terrorism was after Pakistan MP Ayaz Sadiq who had said that, “When Chief of Army Staff General Bajwa came to meet foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for a meeting, his legs were shaking and there was sweat on his forehead. Qureshi told him to let Abhinandan go for god’s sake as India was about to attack Pakistan at 9 PM”.
Choudhry in turn called Sadiq’s statement as lies and stated, “Humne Hindustan ko ghuske mara hai…aur Pukwama mein jo hamari kamiyabi hai who Imran Khan ki qayadat mein is kaum ki kamyabhi hai, uske hissedar aap bhi sab hain, uske hissedar hum bhi sab hain (We attacked India in its own territory…and Pulwama was an achievement under the leadership of Imran Khan. You (opposition) are also a stakeholder in this success)”.
After the Pulwama terror attack, India carried out airstrikes on terror camps of JeM in Balakot which is Pakistani territory.