India’s concocted Pahalgam funding story meant to malign Pakistan, push FATF pressure
Islamabad: Political observers have said that India has concocted a baseless story about alleged “foreign funding” of the so-called The Resistance Front (TRF) to malign Pakistan at the global level and lobby for restrictions against Islamabad at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian media citing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is running propaganda that social media activities and financial transactions allegedly link Pakistan, Malaysia and Gulf countries to the Pahalgam attack.
Independent analysts, however, said the timing and framing of this so-called “investigation” clearly expose New Delhi’s political agenda. “India has a well-documented history of planting false narratives, whether it was Pulwama in 2019 or earlier staged operations, to paint Pakistan as a sponsor of terrorism,” said an expert on Indian affairs. “The latest TRF funding story is just another attempt to build pressure on FATF and sustain the global propaganda against Islamabad,” he added.
Observers stressed that it is India which has been sponsoring state terrorism inside Pakistan, including repeated attacks on the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). “While the Modi regime projects itself as a victim, evidence of Indian intelligence networks fuelling terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi continues to mount,” they said.
Analysts maintained that by weaponizing institutions like the NIA, India is trying to divert international attention from its own state terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its destabilizing role in the region. “This is part of the same old playbook — manufacture a terror funding story, drag Pakistan’s name into it, and lobby Western capitals with half-baked dossiers,” they noted.
