Rs 14 Crore To Masood Azhar…’: Rajnath Singh’s Warning On Pak Terror Plans

New Delhi:

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh offered a stark warning Friday about the Pakistan government’s plans to “spend tax collected from its citizens… to give Rs 14 crore to Masood Azhar“, designated an ‘international terrorist’ by the United Nations and head of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed group that was behind the 2019 Pulwama and 2016 Uri attacks.

Mr Singh prefaced that cautionary note by saying Pak had begun rebuilding terrorist infrastructure destroyed by India during Operation Sindoor – New Delhi’s military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack by another Pak-based terror group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

This rebuilding, the Defence Minister claimed, would be funded by the Pak government by diverting the $2.1 billion it is to get from the International Monetary Fund as aid money.

“Pak will spend tax collected from citizens to give Rs 14 crore to Masood Azhar, the head of the Jaish terrorist organisation, even though he is a UN-designated terrorist. The Pak government has also said it will give financial assistance to rebuild terror infrastructure of Lashkar and Jaish, in Muridke and Bahawalpur,” Mr Singh told soldiers at a military base in Gujarat’s Bhuj.