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When Pakistan entered the final stage of his efforts to be taken from the ‘Gray List’ of the Financial Action Cluster (FATF) this year, all eyes acted with the founder of Jaish-E-Mohammad (JEM) Masood Azhar, and his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar, two people who were Most sought by India for their role in many terrorist attacks,
including the 814 IC aircraft piracy in 1999 and parliamentary attacks in 2001. While Rauf Asghar was detained together with 44 JEM members in 2019, officials said the current Pakistani law enforcement agencies While in the process of “assessing” the existence of Masood Azhar, including whether he was in Pakistan. Pakistani law enforcement agencies have discussed the probability of Azhar’s transfer to Afghanistan with the Taliban regime as well, officials said.
The search for Pakistan for Azhar was accelerated with several urgency, officials confirmed, because the Fatf senior team was expected to visit Islamabad and other cities for “visits” starting on 2 28 August September, to verify whether Pakistan had brought all the actions in the task list 34 points given after being included in the ‘gray list’ in 2018. If the team is fulfilled by its findings, Pakistan is expected to be officially taken from the list of “Improvement Monitoring”, such as the ‘Gray -Gray List’ known, during the next pleno fatf session In October this year.
According to the submission by the Pakistani government, the National Terrorism Authority (NACTA) held a meeting in early March to coordinate the hunting of Masood Azhar, who claimed the agency was in the escape, and the process to declare Azhar as “actors stated” was ongoing. The terror financing case was also submitted against Azhar in March 2021,
and further investigations “depend on the arrest of Masood Azhar”, the submission said. The Pakistani investigation seems to conclude that Azhar is now in Afghanistan, where JEM has several training camps, or in Khyber Paktunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan along the border, after a number of search operations in Pakistan Punjab reportedly unsuccessful.
Pakistan has also raised this issue with the Taliban regime at the “ministerial level” in January 2022, and follows up on the request, the submission said.
Pakistan refers to a report submitted by the Analytical Support Team and UN sanctions to the UN Security Council Terror Committee, led by India at this time. Reports of the teams of the team, submitted on May 26, 2022, said that JEM is “Deobandi’s group that is ideologically closer to the Taliban”, and that JEM maintains eight training camps in Nangarhar Province, with jem fighters totaling “several in several” In Nangarhar Province, with a jem numbering “some” in some “some hundreds of jem”.
