'Terrorism is their state policy': EAM Jaishankar in veiled attack on Pakistan and China

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Pakistan and China for sponsoring terrorism, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar echoed same and called for an “undifferentiated and undiluted” approach towards fighting terrorism. He said that "some" countries are supporting terrorism and eventually me ir state policies. " ' Money for Terror' platform aims to bro base Big Fight against Terror Financing. When it comes to terrorism, we will never look away, we will never compromise and we will never give up on our quest to ensure justice," he said.

While speaking at ‘ Money For Terror’ conference on Saturday, minister stressed that terrorism is a matter of grave concern for all states and appealed to work collectively in order to ericate terrorism. "It is important that all states collectively follow an undifferentiated and undiluted approach to terrorism. Terror is terror, and political spin can ever justify it," said Jaishankar in a veiled attack on Pakistan & China.

Jaishankar laments jurisdiction limitations in curbing terrorism

He also emphasised cross-border terror funding which les to rise of geo-political tensions and lamented how countries could t able to take concrete action due to jurisdiction limitations. "While cross-border support is behind terrorist attacks, it is irony that any response by authorities to terrorism stops at ir geographical borders because that is where jurisdiction ends. se limitations play to benefit of terrorist groups," said Jaishanakar. “In India’s context, terrorist groups from across border like LeT, JeM or Harkat-ul Mujahideen and ir proxies thrive on assured financial support to commit barbaric acts of terror on Indian soil,” he ded.

During event, minister highlighted Security Council resolution 2462 in his speech and underscored that implementation of resolution is still t in proper place due to political will. global fight against terrorism cant succeed without conscious and coordinated efforts to counter financing of terrorism," he ted. Furrmore, Jaishankar accentuated that terror outfits are using new techlogy to eve regular funding model and hide from lenses of international investigating ncies.  

"Misuse of financial techlogy such as Blockchain, virtual cryptocurrencies, digital crowdsourcing and prepaid phone cards, have posed a great risk for efforts of countering terror financing,” he said.

PM Modi calls for a mechanism to exact a price on terror-supporters

Earlier on Friday, PM Modi, in a veiled attack on Pakistan and China, asserted need to build a mechanism to exact a price on countries supporting or sponsoring terrorism. PM Modi said that a cost must be imposed on countries which aid terrorism as part of ir foreign policy. Although he did t mention any names, little needs to be said about circumstances applying to Pakistan and China. Also, he emphasised that those individuals or organisations that have sympathy for terrorists must be isolated. 

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