Masood Khan, Pakistan’s new ambassador to USA is a supporter of Islamic terrorist organisations

Pakistan has appointed a brand new ambassador to the United States. The former president of the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Masood Khan, can be the ambassador of Pakistan to China. Khan, whose appointment is elevating eyebrows, has a historical past of sympathising with Islamists and Jihadists.
An article by Sam Westrop in Middle East Forum has highlighted Masood’s open assist to terrorist organisations and Jihadist components.
Masood Khan and his hyperlinks to Islamists and Jihadists
On a number of events up to now, Khan has shamelessly stood by the Jihadists. He had paid homage to the terrorist Burhan Wani who was neutralized by Indian forces 5 years in the past. In July 2021, Khan was serving because the ‘president’ of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
According to News Agency ANI, at the moment, in his particular message on the fifth anniversary of Wani’s demise, he stated, “We grieve today for Burhan Wani. He lives on… in our hearts. He sacrificed his life for a cause.” According to Pakistani media, he additional added Wani was a “role model for the freedom fighters across the globe”. He additionally stated, “the liberation of Kashmir and a defeat of India is the writing on the wall.”
In June 2017, when US State Department designated Hizbul Mujahideen a terrorist group, Khan prolonged his full assist to the group. He known as US sanctions towards Sayed Salahuddin, chief of Hizbul Mujahideen, “unjustified”. Khan continued to assist Hizbul on a number of events.
According to a report in Geo TV, Masood claimed Hizbul had nothing to do with terrorism. In 2020, after the demise of Junaid Sehrai, a prime commander of Hizbul, Khan issued an official assertion paying homage to Sehrai and his affiliate, Taria Ahmed, for “offering the supreme sacrifice of their lives for the freedom of their motherland.” Khan additional stated, “all the martyrs and their sacrifices are an asset for the liberation movement.”
Furthermore, he prolonged assist for different terrorist organizations as properly. In 2019, he took half within the All Parties Kashmir Solidarity Conference that was held in Islamabad. According to a report in Catch News, he shared the stage with Fazlur Rehman Khalil, founding father of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM). Khalil was designated a terrorist by the US State Department in 1997. He was named as Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2014.
Khan can be a vocal supporter of the South Asian Islamist motion Jamaat-e-Islami. The article in meforum.org tells how the killing squads of this group had labored hand-in-hand with the Pakistani army to hold out the genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971. In 2016, Motiur Rahman Nizami, chief of its Bangladesh chapter was hanged by the Bangladeshi authorities for his function in instances involving rape and genocide in 1971. On Khan’s official web site, consultants of his speeches have been revealed the place he gave “paid tributes to Jamaat Islami Pakistan for playing an active role in Pakistan and Azad (sic) Jammu and Kashmir.”
Khan additionally prolonged assist for Aafia Siddiqui, alias Lady Al-Qaeda.
Masood had prolonged assist for a feminine terrorist. Source: Twitter
Khan’s title has been linked to IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation that could be a Turkish intelligence linked charity. The meforum.org article additional states this group has been accused of supplying weapons to al-Qaeda’s Jihadist teams in Libya and Syria. It can be accused of holding operations in Kashmir. IHH has been designated as a terrorist group in Germany, Israel and the Netherlands.
Masood has hyperlinks to IHH, a Turkish intelligence linked charity. Source: Twitter
Another extremist charity group that Khan has prolonged assist to is Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD). This group is an American proxy of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 2017, HHRD partnered with the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. HHRD is accused of offering funds to Al-Khidmat Foundation, which is linked to Kashmiri terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen.
In 2019, Pakistani PM Imran Khan known as for lobbying towards India throughout a convention organized by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Notably, in 2018, ISNA’s department was suspended in Canada after the group transferred CAD 1,36,000 to Kashmir that reportedly went within the fingers of Hizbul Mujahideen.
Since Imran Khan’s speech, US-based Pakistani-regime-linked lobbying teams and Islamist organizations have spent tons of of hundreds of {dollars} on lobbying towards Narendra Modi-led Indian authorities. Masood Khan has not solely prolonged assist for these lobbying teams but in addition stood by terrorist operatives like Yasin Malik and Shabir Shah and Jihadist leaders like late Syed Ali Geelani.
Masood prolonged assist for terrorists and jihadists working in India. Source: Twitter
Pakistan’s overt assist to Islamic terrorist organisations has been laid naked after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The appointment of Masood as Pakistan’s ambassador to the USA is one other blatant show of the Islamic regime’s makes an attempt to mainstream Jihadist ideologies and co-opt terrorist supporters.
Also, Pakistan calls the POK as ‘Azad Kashmir’, however the so-called Prime Ministers and Presidents of this ‘Azad Kashmir’ are nothing however puppets of Pakistan who simply observe Islamabad’s orders. Their name for ‘independence’ in Jammu and Kashmir is nothing however an try to carry your entire area beneath Pakistan’s management.