“Currency ink, silver thread supplier same for Pak”

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today claimed that the supplier of ink and silver threads used in currency notes is the same for India and Pakistan, and sought to know what was government’s strategy to deal with it.

“The ink and silver thread supplier is supplying the same thing to Pakistan as well. So, what is the government going to do about it (to end counterfeit menace),” the Hyderabad Lok Sabha member asked, while talking to PTI in Hyderabad.

Maintaining that the demonetisation move has caused “immense problems to every one”, Owaisi said the government should give ample time — at least a couple of months — for people to exchange old notes. He said if anyone deposits huge amount of money, it can certainly be tracked.