Modi government for ensuring Pakistan is included in the FATF grey list

Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday credited the Narendra Modi government for ensuring Pakistan is included in the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list and also for highlighting that terrorism must be treated as a global issue and not just a problem faced by a few countries.

The minister also said the Modi government had stood firm on two occasions when it was challenged by China.

“Now the world knows, India will not bow down to pressure from China,” he said.

Jaishankar was addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders’ training programme on the Modi government’s foreign policy, ANI reported. The session was aimed at acquainting the BJP MPs about the government’s various foreign policy initiatives to help BJP MPs to counter opposition charges in the monsoon session of parliament beginning on Monday.

The minister added that it was due to the Modi government’s efforts that sanctions were imposed on groups like the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) at the global level. Through international meets like the G7 or G20, Prime Minister Modi had impressed on the international community that terrorism be looked at as an issue of global concern.

On India’s “Neighbourhood First” policy, the minister said India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made efforts to have cordial relations with neighbouring countries.

“FATF as all of you know keeps a check on funding for terrorism and deals with black money supporting terrorism. Due to us, Pakistan is under the lens of FATF and it was kept in the grey list,” Jaishankar was quoted as saying by ANI.