ISLAMABAD: Pakistan urged the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Wednesday to block illegal funding for an Indian political party, it accuses of involvement in terrorism.
Shehryar Afridi, chairman of Parliament's Kashmir Committee, accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of "terrorist activities funded by the Indian diaspora".
Expressing concern, he said that the RSS had been "receiving funding from the Indian diaspora based in dozens of countries across the globe."
He urged the UN, the FATF and other financial institutions to take "cognizance of the situation and follow it up with immediate action to block these illegal transactions as RSS has been using these funds to kill and torture religious minorities in mainland India as well Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir [IIOJK]."
"The RSS terrorists have carried out terrorist attacks across India killing Muslims, including in 2006 Malegaon blasts, Mecca Masjid bombing in Hyderabad, Samjhauta Express bombings and the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blasts," he added.
"The RSS is receiving funding from Indian diaspora based in various countries and Indian Consulates are facilitating the transfer of funding to the terrorist organization that is killing and lynching Muslims in India and Kashmir and carrying a Hindu supremacist ideology," said Afridi, expressing "shock over the silence of FATF over illegal and illicit transactions to the RSS."
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