Funds, Arms Must Not be allowed to Terrorists: PM Modi

Taking a veiled dig at China for supporting Pakistan in its terrorist activities at global platforms, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said the terrorists must not be allowed to get funds and arms.

“Politicization of mechanisms including, UN listings and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) should be avoided in order to realize the fact”, PM Modi added.

Indian Prime Minister was speaking at the Leaders' Dialogue on Strategic Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives at the UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.

He said the world has shown solidarity against challenges like climate change and a similar solidarity and readiness is needed against terrorism.

"The Prime Minister called for qualitative upgradation in the ongoing cooperation and intelligence sharing through bilateral and regional frameworks," MEA Secretary (West) A Gitesh Sarma told media persons.

Sarma added, "The Prime Minister said that terrorists should not be allowed to get funds and arms. For this objective to be realized, we need to avoid politicisation of mechanisms like UN listings and FATF. These mechanisms need to be enforced. PM Modi said a terrorist attack, anywhere in the world should be considered as terrorism, not good or bad terrorism”.

Sharing India's experiences, PM Modi said democratic values, diversity and inclusive development were the most important weapons against ideologies that promote terror, extremism and radicalism.

China has been supportive of Pakistan at international fora, with Beijing recently planning to invest $1 billion in development projects in Pakistan as the two seek to further boost bilateral ties. Pakistan and China are all-weather strategic cooperative partner and have always firmly supported each other on issues concerning each other's core interests.

PM Narendra Modi said that world has shown solidarity against challenges like climate change and a similar solidarity and readiness is needed against terrorism.