A day after India submitted Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ali Amin Gandapur's recent remarks regarding the alleged support of certain extremist groups by "institutions" to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as evidence against Islamabad, he vowed to expose India’s role in sponsoring terrorism in the country.

 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Indian government has used the chief minister’s statement to back its allegations that Pakistan supports terrorist elements, officials of FATF confirmed.

 

The Indian submission specifically references Gandapur’s remarks made late in July following an All-Parties Conference (APC) in Peshawar, in which he alleged, “We arrest the Taliban, but our own institutions get them released, claiming they are their people.”

 

“Now they (Good Taliban) have come again. Please, these ‘Good Taliban’ are not acceptable and if you really want to keep them, give them uniforms, and send them to [Indian illegally occupied] Kashmir,” he had said.

 

The remarks, which elicited criticism in Pakistan, are now being used by New Delhi to request Islamabad's re-inclusion on the FATF’s “increased monitoring” list, commonly known as the grey list.

 

Indian authorities have argued that the public admission by the chief minister shows that Pakistan’s institutions continue to aid and protect terrorist elements.

 

Media reports quoted the FATF officials as saying that New Delhi framed the statement as a formal “charge sheet” against Islamabad, especially underscoring KP as a region gravely affected by terrorism and militancy.

 

According to media reports, Gandapur, in a statement, said that India submitted his statement to the global anti-money laundering watchdog “out of context”.

 

“India has always been involved in terrorism in Pakistan and the region,” the Chief Minister said, noting that he was writing a letter to FATF to expose Indian actions in Kashmir.

 

He said the people and Pakistan’s forces were making unprecedented sacrifices to uproot terrorism from the country. 

 

“My message to Modi [Indian prime minister] is that we are united to defend Pakistan,” Gandapur said, warning that India was attempting to get Pakistan grey-listed again by “constructing a false narrative.”

 

After being placed on FATF's grey list in 2018, Pakistan was taken off the list in 2022.