Pakistan’s Claim Of Crackdown On Homegrown Terror A Hogwash

In its note to the United Nations Security Council, Pakistan has detailed the steps it has taken to fight terrorists on its soil. The crackdown has been reportedly launched by Pakistan’s internal counter-terrorism authority on terrorists, terror outfits and front organisations that raise terror funds. However, a New Indian Express report says Pakistan’s actions to defeat terrorism have not really yielded any results.

The report says that Maymar Trust, recognised by the UN as Al-Akhtar Trust and associated with Al Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), is continuing to generate funds -- through what they call welfare work for children -- to finance the JeM. The terrorist assets including property in Pakistan which the country has claimed to identify, still operate as they were doing before, says the report.

The Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) unit in Karachi “continues to advertise its fund-raising activities” and Maymar Trust is reportedly using social media platforms to raise funds. The trust’s proxy, Jamia-Tur-Rasheed, is also said to be raising funds even now through Majlis-e-ilmi Society, Pakistan’s largest Islamic commercial bank. Looks like a real crackdown still lies in the distant future.