“Where there is a will there is a way. The Modi government simply buckled under US pressure on May 9th at the IMF Executive Board meeting,” Ramesh said.India on Friday pressed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reconsider its USD 1 billion assistance to Pakistan, saying Islamabad could use a large part of it to fund the terrorist infrastructure.In an address to air warriors at Gujarat’s Bhuj Air Force station, Singh cautioned against providing financial support to Pakistan, saying any such assistance would be no less than terror funding.In its board meeting in Washington on May 9, the IMF cleared a USD 1 billion tranche for Pakistan as part of its USD 7 billion funding programme for the country.”The Pakistan government has announced financial assistance to rebuild the terror infrastructure of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed located in Muridke and Bahawalpur,” Singh had said.”Certainly, a large part of the IMF’s USD one billion assistance will be used to fund the terror infrastructure. Will this not be considered indirect funding by IMF, an international organisation?””Any financial assistance to Pakistan is no less than terror funding. The funds India gives to IMF should not be used, directly or indirectly, to create terror infrastructure in Pakistan or any other country,” he had said.
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