USAID Funded Pak Terror Group?

Aakhir Tak – In Shorts

USAID is accused of funding a Pakistan-based terror group. This group was involved in multiple terror attacks in India. USAID funded the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). FIF and LeT have carried out numerous terror attacks in India. The US government has banned this organization.

Aakhir Tak – In Depth

USAID Accused of Funding Pakistan-Based Terror Group Bleeding India

Money from USAID, a statutory body of the US government, was allegedly used to fund an anti-India outfit labelled a terrorist organisation by the American government itself. The funding of the Pakistan-based Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), which is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), came to light as former US President Donald Trump started dismantling USAID with an executive order. This USAID case has raised many questions.

The Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and LeT were involved in the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed. Six Americans were among the 166 people mercilessly killed by the Pakistani terrorists. What is more shocking is despite coming under probe over funding of an Islamist charity with links to terror organisations, USAID continued to release funds to it. Now, Trump’s executive order on American funding of foreign assistance placed a sword over the US Agency for International Development (USAID). While this might affect several projects in India, it has a silver lining as USAID money was allegedly being used to fund Islamic terrorism, including those trying to destabilize India. Multiple terror events happened in India because of this funding.

One of the beneficiaries of USAID, which funds NGOs across the globe, was Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a front for LeT. The LeT and its front Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), both designated terror organisations by India and the US, have conducted terror attacks and promoted terrorism in India, especially in Jammu and Kashmir. What’s shocking is that American taxpayers’ money was allegedly used to fund an organisation banned by the US government in 2010. Despite the ban, the USAID actually ended up funding the FIF. The US State Department says that the FIF is closely connected to banned terrorist group LeT and its humanitarian front Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD). It adds that, in essence, FIF is JUD with a new name, designed to evade scrutiny and sanctions, linking it to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

More than half of American foreign aid is channelled through the USAID, which was allegedly blind to its own government’s ban on Pakistan-based FIF. The USAID aid to FIF was allegedly routed through Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), a Michigan-based Muslim charity that has ties with jihadist outfits operating in South Asia. USAID allegedly provided 0,000 in funding to jihadist groups in South Asia, including the FIF, which targeted India.

Even after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Lashkar-e-Taiba has been inflicting terror on Indian soil. It’s operatives have been active on the ground and are engaged in training in Kashmir. Such funding of outfits designated terror organisations by the US government itself couldn’t have taken place without people in top positions pulling the strings. There is a need for a detailed, transparent investigation.

Aakhir Tak – Key Takeaways to Remember

USAID is accused of funding a Pak terror group. USAID funded the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). FIF and LeT have carried out numerous terror attacks in India. The US government has banned this organization.

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