To raise funds for conducting future terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the Islamic organisation “Tehreek-I Khatam-e-Nabuwat” will organise a conference in Hattian Bala College ground in the Jhelum Valley in Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) on April 30, 2023.
Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza, the chairman of the Tehreek-e-Itefaq, told the international media that this conference’s primary goal or objective is to gather funds for conducting future terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
According to Dr Mirza, the organisers of the conference have already begun a massive fund-raising camp in POJK. He also warned that Pakistan is working on reviving infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir.
The Khatam-e-Nabuwat conference is collecting funds openly from shopkeepers and businessmen in the name of ‘Jihad’ in Kashmir. Mirza said this is a gross violation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) demands regarding terror financing.
He said that at a time when the whole of POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan was engulfed in the social upheaval caused by the gross violations of human rights and economic crisis, the conference is aimed at diverting the attention of the youth from the real issues by propagating the finality of Prophet Muhammad and targeting religious minorities.
Dr Mirza explained that by instilling sentiments of Jihad among the PoJK youth, they are preparing them for recruitment in various jihadi outfits sponsored by Pakistan.
Additionally, the Pakistani Spy Agency Inter Service Intelligence, (ISI) is working in tandem or collaboration with the POJK government, attempting to divert social anger demonstrated by the youth and civil society in recent months towards religious fanaticism.
As per Mirza, holding of such events is not in the interests of the region and must be banned in all parts of the POJK and occupied Gilgit Baltistan.
Dr Ahmed Ayub Mirza is a human rights activist and author from Mirpur in POJK. He currently lives in the United Kingdom (UK) in exile.
The recent waiver to Pakistan came as a massive relief to for Islamabad. But the South-South Research Initiative (SSRI) reported that the global money laundering and terror financing watchdog must continue to keep pressure on Pakistan as the country uses symbolic actions to curb terror financing.
Pakistan was added to the ‘Greylist’ in the FATF Plenary Meeting held at Paris in June 2018.
In October 2022, Pakistan was removed from the FATF Greylist and continues to be monitored by the Asia-Pacific-Group (APG), an FATF style regional body. The country had to undergo a long scrutiny process to get itself off the list.
This was the third time when Pakistan name was added to the list. Earlier it was on the FATF Greylist during 2008-10, 2012-15, and its name was removed from the list in February 2015.
