Modi criticised over anti-Pakistan rhetoric

Rehman Malik says ‘Indian premier conspiring to win upcoming general elections’

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior Chairman Senator Rehman Malik said on Friday that the attack on the Indian army convoy was a conspiracy to help Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi win the general elections in India due this year and deflect attention from the trial of their spy Kulbhushan Jadhav by whipping up anti-Pakistan frenzy.

Addressing a news conference at his residence, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader said Pakistan has already condemned the attack on Indian army in occupied Kashmir. He said Indian rulers have made if a habit to blame Pakistan for any incident of terrorism in India. According to him, such tactics India was trying to isolate Pakistan but it would not succeed in its designs.

The former interior minister was specifically critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he had been propagating against Pakistan, with allegations of money laundering and terror support and financing even though he himself is the face of an internationally notorious terrorist organisation. “The RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] is operating in the whole of India under the patronage of PM Modi. It is universally known fact that RSS is being funded by the Indian state under Modi.”

Malik also cited incidents from the past where ‘India blamed Pakistan but after investigations, it transpired that India elements were responsible”. He cited the examples of the Samjhauta Express attack of 2007 that claimed 68 lives.



The senator also criticised New Delhi over its treatment of the Kashmir issue, saying that instead of granting right to self-will to Kashmiris, India was committing genocide. He accused India of involvement in terrorist financing in Pakistan through its spy network. “

The head of the spy network was caught red-handed, who has also confessed doing numerous acts of terrorism in Pakistan as per plan provided to him by the Indian spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW),” Malik said with regard to Kulbushan Jadhav.

He also urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague, which is hearing the Jadhav case, not to forget about the people who lost their lives due to Jadhav’s espionage.

The PPP senator added that he had has sent an open letter to the head of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) with a copy to the UN secretary general and authorities in Pakistan including the Attorney General of Pakistan with the request to place his findings on record before ICJ and FATF.

The letter seeks action against Modi for protecting international fugitives involved in credit fraud and money laundering, he added. “I would like to place on record of FATF that the Indian Prime Minister Modi is protecting a businessman who has defrauded 45 international banks based in UAE between 1980 and 1998, which has been termed as the biggest credit fraud in the history of international banking. They have conned these banks of $360 million which were later laundered throughout Middle East as well as European countries,” Malik said.