Unpleasant as it is for India, these terrorists in Pakistan are now living and plotting their nefarious plans from the comfort of their homes. The Punjab province chief minister in Pakistan had in April said on Twitter that around 50 inmates of a jail in Lahore had tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. It was a choice between a deadly virus with no cure and dreaded terror operatives

Islamabad/New Delhi: With over 18,000 positive cases and 400+ casualties, Pakistan is concerned about the spread of the pandemic in the country in wake of the lack of proper infrastructure to cope with the gargantuan demand for state-of-the-art healthcare facilities.

It is known that the economy of India’s estranged kin is in tatters, so much so that the Imran Khan-led government is under extreme pressure to tackle the pandemic in the best possible way without causing further dent to the already-depleted state exchequer.

However, in a shocking development, Pakistan has set free all terror operatives whom they had held in captivity, to keep the country immune from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist, in order to decongest prisons to stem the outbreak.

Unpleasant as it is for India, these terrorists in Pakistan are now living and plotting their nefarious plans from the comfort of their homes, including Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, news agency ANI reported.

The Punjab province chief minister in Pakistan had in April said on Twitter that around 50 inmates of a jail in Lahore had tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, forcing the administration to set these dreaded terrorists free.

It was a choice between a deadly virus with no cure and dreaded terror operatives.

The FATF has placed Pakistan in the grey list and a review is due next month. But the country has been hideous about the ground realities and is allegedly fudging numbers of the terrorists since the focus of the world is on the pandemic.

Experts are of the opinion that in such a scenario, it could be a challenge for the FATF to make its reviews in June since Pakistan is using the Covid-19 pandemic as a cover-up to deal with terror havens.

Discreetly Strikes of 1800 Names From Watch List

Back in April, a US report had claimed that Pakistan had allegedly struck off 1,800 names from a terror watch list without the notice of anyone in an attempt to adhere to the FATF assessment in June over charges of money-laundering for terrorist activities.

“The so-called proscribed person list, which is maintained by Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority, or NACTA, is intended in part to help financial institutions avoid doing business with or processing transactions of suspected terrorists,” the report had said.

The 2018 list had around 7,600 names, which had been reduced to less than 3,800 over the past 18 months, as per New York-based regulatory technology company Castellum.AI. Around 1,800 of those names were taken off since early March, the data put together by the firm claimed.