Officials in Pakistan’s MQM party have told the UK authorities، that they received Indian government funds.
UK authorities currently investigating the MQM for alleged money laundering، had also found a list of weapons in an MQM property. A Pakistani official has told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants over the last 10 years.
Meanwhile Indian authorities described the claims as “completely baseless”، and the Pakistani political party MQM said it was not going to comment regarding the case.
With 24 members in the National Assembly، the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has been a dominant force in the politics of Pakistan’s largest city، Karachi.
British authorities held formal recorded interviews with senior MQM officials who told them the party was receiving Indian funding.
A Pakistani official has told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants in explosives، weapons and sabotage over the last 10 years in camps in north and north-east India. Before 2005-2006 the training was given to a small number of mid-ranking members of the MQM، the official said.
The claims follow the statement of a senior Karachi police officer that two arrested MQM militants said they had been trained in India. In April Rao Anwar gave details of how the two men went to India via Thailand to be trained by the Indian intelligence agency RAW.
This was followed with the MQM leader Altaf Hussain’s tirade of abuse directed at Rao Anwar.