Pakistain’s inadequate actions against domestic terror financing led the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to place the country on its "grey list" three times between the years 2008 and 2022: from Feb. 2008 to June 2010, then from Feb. 2012 to Feb. 2015, and finally from June 2018 to Oct. 2022.
In 2018, the Asia-Pacific Group (APG), a FATF-associated body, conducted an onsite mutual evaluation visit from Oct. 8 to 19. The subsequent 2019 Mutual Evaluation Report identified significant deficiencies in Pakistain’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime, including in its implementation of the FATF action plan.
In 2019, FATF noted in a public statement following the Gay Paree plenary (Feb. 17-22) that Pakistain did not demonstrate a proper understanding of the terror financing (TF) risks that the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS), Al Qaeda, Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...>
(LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the Haqqani Network (HQN), and persons affiliated with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
posed.
In 2022, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, the criminal mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was sentenced to 33 years in jail. Interestingly, this sentence was based on terror financing charges, rather than charges related to actual terrorist acts.
Yet despite all the documented evidence indicating Pakistain’s support for terror outfits, the FATF issued a statement that Pakistain had met all 34 items on its action plans. The task force subsequently removed Pakistain from its grey list during the plenary session held in Oct. 2022 in Gay Paree, La Belle France.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
as per the credible records and open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations, Pakistain continues to promote terrorism from its soil. Terror groups now operate through several proxies, and unabashedly continue funding, financing and promoting Islamic terrorism. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
there have been some changes in their funding methods.
For instance, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), or the Army of Mohammed, is listed in the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
1267 Committee’s consolidated sanctions list. The governments of the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, India and Pakistain consider it a proscribed terrorist organization. Based in Pakistain, JeM operates primarily in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it
Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(JK).
According to a report from the Parliament of Australia,
JeM was founded in 2000 by Maulana Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
, a radical Islamic scholar and jihadist leader, following his release from an Indian jail in exchange for 155 hostages hijacked aboard an Indian Airlines aircraft on 31 December 1999. When released from prison, Azhar did not rejoin his former group, Harakat ul-Mujahideen (HuM). Instead, Azhar formed JeM, reportedly with support from Pakistain’s Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military
intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI), the Afghan Taliban, the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest......
and several other Sunni murderous Moslem organizations in Pakistain.
Some of JeM's notable attacks outside Kashmir include the 2001 assault on India’s parliament building; the 2002 murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl; and two 2003 liquidation attempts against Pak President Parvez Musharraf. JeM is well trained and supported. Consequently, it poses a terrorist threat to India and Pakistain, as well as to Western targets based in both of these countries.
JeM uses violence in pursuit of its stated objective of forcing the withdrawal of Indian security forces from Kashmir and uniting Kashmir with Pakistain under Islamic Sharia law. JeM (including its chief Masood Azhar) also endorse the wider aim of establishing an Islamic caliphate across South Asia and expelling Hindus from the Indian subcontinent. JeM is
In its funding, JeM has shifted from using banks to Easypaisa, digital wallets, and crypto (USDT).
Local media reported that JeM has established a new mechanism with the support of Pakistain’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which collects funds. It is using digital wallets such as "EasyPaisa" and "Sadapay." Family members of its founder and most wanted terrorist, Masood Azhar, control these. They use them to bypass scrutiny from global agencies such as the FATF.
JeM is also raising money on the pretext of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
relief aid. Hammad Azhar, son of Masood Azhar, is leading JeM's efforts to raise money for terror activities via Gaza Aid. He asks women in Gaza to make videos praising him for his charity works. His social media alias is Qaisar Ahmad, and he asks everyone to donate to his Easypaisa bank account under the name of Khalid Ahmed, a separate alias. He receives donations from Pakistain and Gulf countries.
Another new funding method JeM uses is mosque construction. JeM has reportedly launched a massive fundraising drive in Pakistain under the guise of building over 300 mosques.
The terror outfit started the online fundraising campaign through digital wallets to collect 3.91 billion Pak rupees (Rs), that is, $14 million U.S. dollars, for constructing 313 new markaz (central) buildings, local media reported.
On social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp, JeM-linked proxy accounts (such as those used by JeM commanders) have posted posters, videos and a letter from Masood Azhar, urging supporters to donate wholeheartedly. They say that each mosque requires Rs 12.5 million ($45,000 USD) for construction and smooth operations.
In addition to these accounts, over 250 EasyPaisa wallets are reportedly used to fundraise. Alongside social media appeals, the terror outfit circulated an audio recording of Azhar’s brother, Al Saif, via its official propaganda channel, MSTD Official. The message urged supporters to contribute 21,000 Pak rupees ($75) per person, the officials said.
The 3.91 billion-rupee fundraising drive would secure JeM’s operational and weapons financing for at least a decade, Indian officials said.
JeM is also aided through a winter survival kit, which was launched via a public fundraising campaign seeking contributions for its fighters operating in Kashmir. Specific items and their costs are listed, including a coat, boots, blanket, gloves, socks and similar items. These kits are given to their terrorists.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
another terrorist group, LeT, has shifted to direct wallets. LeT has started collecting funds directly into its wallets instead of bank accounts, in order to dodge FATF scrutiny.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), also known as Army of the Righteous, was formed in the late 1980s. LeT is one of the largest and most proficient of the Kashmir-focused holy warrior groups. The United States and United Nations have designated LeT an international terrorist organization.
Based in Pakistain's Punjab
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
....
Province and in Pakistain-occupied Kashmir, it has "launched humanitarian projects as a means of circumventing sanctions," according to the official website of the US Congress. LeT was responsible for the Nov. 2008 terrorist assault in Mumbai, India, as well as several other high-profile attacks. During the Mumbai attacks, faceless myrmidons used automatic weapons and grenades to attack several sites, murdering more than 160 people.
Pak authorities in April 2015 released on bail the head of LeT operations, Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, pending prosecution of him and several other LeT leaders for the Mumbai attacks.
LeT recruits internationally, as evidenced by the arrest in the United States of Jubair Ahmed in 2011, Headley’s arrest in 2009, and the indictment in 2003 of eleven LeT faceless myrmidons in Virginia.
In 2003, authorities also disrupted an LeT plot to attack Australia, and in 2009 LeT put on hold a plot to attack Denmark in retaliation for cartoons drawn of Islam's prophet Muhammad.
LeT maintains facilities in Pakistain, including training camps, schools, and medical clinics. LeT coordinates its activities through its front organization, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
LeT is also collecting donations under the guise of flood relief. A banner advertised an appeal for donations to fund boats which would carry out rescue activities in flood-affected areas of Pakistain. JuD/Pakistain Markazi Moslem League (PMML)’s Khidmat Khalaq Wing, Gujranwala would conduct these activities. The amount sought for a rescue boat is 1,200,000 Pak rupees ($4,300).
Islamic terrorist organizations — including those active in Pakistain and Kashmir — are diversifying their funding methods and finding ways to bypass scrutiny by global agencies. They are exploiting humanitarian activities, mosques, rescue missions and wars to raise money internationally — including in the U.S. This allows them to spread holy warrior Islamic messages and increase support for their terrorist activities.
Ultimately, the goal of their ideology is to create a global caliphate consisting of Islamic states. They want to conquer and dominate all non-Moslem nations. This includes the imposition of Sharia law, which is the totalitarian Islamic legal code.
The world has seen many times what happens when Islamic supremacists and jihadists take control of a country — from the Moslem Brüderbund-ruled Egypt to Iran, Syria,
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, Afghanistan and Pakistain, amongst others. How alert is the West to these terror groups and their new deceitful funding methods? And more alarmingly, how driven is the West to fight against those Islamist groups whose religiously motivated ambitions have not changed, and who have even gained significant success since the seventh century?