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Pakistan has been exporting patients with the COVID-19 coronavirus to India, Jammu and Kashmir, Director-General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh said on Wednesday. Calling it a cause for concern, Singh said it has come to light that Pakistan, which previously only sent terrorists, has now also begun sending people infected with coronavirus.
The DGP added that these people will spread the infection. He also called for caution in this matter. “Pakistan is exporting patients with coronavirus. It is true that something like this has come to light and is cause for concern. Until now, Pakistan has been exporting terrorists, but now Pakistan will also export patients with coronavirus. They will come here and spread the infection among people here. Caution is needed, it’s a concern, “DGP said.
Despite the world fighting the deadly pandemic, Pakistan has continued its dire activities against India. It has been sending terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir and violating the ceasefire almost every day. The country itself faces a crisis in the fight against the pandemic. A total of 17 more people have died in Pakistan from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths to 209. The number of coronavirus cases has increased to 9,749 with 533 new infections reported as of Wednesday, the Ministry of National Health Services has said.
The Pakistani province of Punjab has reported 4,328 cases, Sindh has 3,053, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 1,345, Balochistan 495, Gilgit-Baltistan 284, Islamabad 194 and Kashmir 51 occupied by Pakistan. Meanwhile, at least 492 Pakistanis, including 92 women, stranded in Afghanistan due to a coronavirus pandemic, have returned to their country from the Torkham border.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will be tested for the new coronavirus on Wednesday, days after meeting with a known philanthropist who has been found positive for COVID-19 infection.
Despite the country trying to combat the pandemic, Pakistan has quietly removed around 1,800 terrorists from its watch list, including that of the mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attack and operations commander LeT Zaki-ur-Rehman. Lakhvi, before a new round of evaluations by FATF, the global watchdog against money laundering, according to a US company that automates compliance with the watch list.
The so-called banned person list, maintained by the Pakistan National Terrorism Authority (NACTA), is intended in part to help financial institutions avoid doing business or processing transactions by suspected terrorists.
The list in 2018 contained some 7,600 names. It has dropped to less than 3,800 in the past 18 months, according to Castellum.AI, a New York-based regulatory technology company.
Around 1,800 of the names have been removed since the beginning of March, according to data collected by Castellum. Pakistan is working to implement a mutually agreed upon action plan with the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), part of which involves demonstrating the effective implementation of specific financial sanctions. “These removals may be part of Pakistan’s action plan to implement the FATF recommendations, he said.
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