FO dismisses India's baseless allegations at 'No Money for Terror' summit.

Pakistan Monday strongly rejected all references and insinuations by the Indian leadership directed against it at the so-called "No Money for Terror" Ministerial meeting held in New Delhi.

In a statement, the Foreign Office said that guided by its incorrigible and incurable desire to malign Pakistan at every available forum, India continues to mislead the world about Pakistan's counter-terrorism credentials by repeatedly levelling false accusations of Islamabad's alleged involvement in the financing of proscribed terrorist organisations.

The Foreign Office said India's hollow rhetoric has fallen flat in the face of Pakistan's successful counterterrorism measures, which have been accorded due recognition and acknowledgement from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

It mentioned that Pakistan's robust and credible AML and CFT actions, and satisfactory implementation of FATF action plans duly secured the country's successful removal of the Grey List this October.

Regrettably, the Foreign Office mentioned that India is continuing its relentless terror campaign in the Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

There is no justification for India's state-sponsored terrorism in IIOJK, where its security forces terrorise, torment and torture innocent Kashmiris with impunity, every day, the statement said.

Most deplorably, India has been harbouring and protecting terrorists for decades. In 2019, it acquitted Swami Aseemanand, the main character of the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast that killed 43 Pakistani citizens on Indian soil.

Earlier this year, the Indian courts released 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case during the 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat, the Foreign Office noted.

Similarly, during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks trial, India deliberately withheld witnesses and credible evidence from Pakistani courts...

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