Pakistan: Decision to take action against terror financing in KP

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to take action against the financial facilitators of terrorists. Several decisions have been taken in this regard. Terror Finance Cell has been established in the Counter Terrorism Department to tighten the circle around terrorists and the number of CTD regions has been increased to 14. The number of officers has been increased to increase the manpower in the Terrorism Force.

Concerned officials say that the terror finance cell will work on extortion in the province, the supply line of money to terrorists and telephone calls coming from Afghan SIMs. Prevention of terrorist financing is proving to be an effective strategy for counter-terrorism. For countries where terrorist activities have increased, experts have been emphasizing the detection and prevention of financial facilitation. Pakistan is the biggest country affected by terrorism. Many institutions and forces have been formed in the homeland for the purpose of countering terrorism. The most important tactic of counter-terrorism is considered to be action against terrorists by armed force. Intelligence reports are taken before this action. This strategy is advantageous in that immediate security challenges are dealt with. But the environment in which terrorism thrives and uses other parts of the society as its helpers does not end, nor does the organized system of terrorists end. If ten terrorists are caught, twenty new ones will come.

?Where are these new terrorists coming from? Where is the system getting its oxygen and what facilitators are keeping it alive? Nowadays, it is impossible for any activity to take place without obtaining money through banking, 'handi' business or crime. Terrorists do not collect money by any single method. Their groups run low-level fraud cases, money is collected from kidnapping-for-ransom cases, and many times organizations working in the form of NGOs are misused. The proceeds from the illegal trade of 'coal' diamonds' precious metals and drugs are used for terrorism. The issue of digital currency has been seen for some years. Terrorists do money laundering. For this purpose they First collect the money' transfer the money somewhere and then in the third level put the money to work.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) carries out a number of services. The agency works as a security agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, monitoring goods at borders, investigating crimes, counter-intelligence, money laundering and terrorism. To trace the transfer of funds, computer databases are usually checked, surveillance processes are tested, information is obtained from officials, search warrants are obtained and interrogations are conducted as necessary. Terrorist groups use methods such as hatred, extremism, violent ideology, intolerance, misuse of charities, fundraising for people or institutions of dubious identity and making terrorism a proud cause to create supporters in the society. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been a frontline area during the Afghan Jihad and then the War on Terrorism. Armed operations and unrest have affected KPK the most. Continued unrest along the Afghan border has affected peacekeeping efforts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan's armed forces, intelligence agencies and police sacrificed thousands of lives to eradicate terrorism. Various operations were carried out. Thanks to their sacrifices, Pakistan became safer than before, but the concern about security could not end. Terrorists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reach other parts of the country or mobilize their like-minded people there. If the financial facilities available to terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are eliminated, the level of threats can be reduced.

The financial facility available to terrorists has not completely ended because the political, administrative and social level has changed to consider illegal wealth as evil. Laundering, extortion and kidnapping for ransom are common in big cities. Various groups continue their activities quietly by bribing government officials. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has taken bold decisions before. The cordon can be tightened. People in Peshawar and other areas in KPK have been victims of extortion calls and kidnapping cases from Afghanistan. Effective strategies to cut the supply line of funds to the required skilled personnel. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other provinces can be made peaceful and safe by providing practical.