New Delhi, July 9 -- Highlighting the increasing use of online platforms to facilitate terrorism, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global watchdog tracking terror financing, has revealed that the explosive material used in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel, was purchased through the e-commerce platform Amazon.
In its latest 131-page report titled "Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risk", the FATF also cited the 2022 Gorakhnath temple incident, in which an attacker struck a security personnel with a sharp-edged weapon, seriously injuring him, as another example of such misuse.
Using both cases as key illustrations, the global terror financing watchdog warned that if e-commerce and digital pay...