Malik urges FATF to note N-proliferation by India

ISLAMABAD: Former Interior minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) Senator Rehman Malik has urged Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President Dr Marcus Pleyer to take notice of continuous nuclear proliferation by India and conduct a probe into the incidents under the FATF rules of financing proliferation.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, he said he wants to bring into the notice of the FATF another highly serious and heinous crime of financing proliferation as some 7.1kg highly enriched uranium was recovered from two citizens of India on May 6, 2021 in Mumbai. He said that according to the Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR), it was not the first time that such a highly radioactive substance has been seized by police in recent years but there are many more cases of nuclear proliferation, which are not reported by India.

He said the theft of uranium and the plan to sell it is a source of concern about nuclear safety and security, not only for India but also for the whole world.