Islamabad, March 25
A delegation of experts from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) arrived here on Monday to review whether Pakistan has made enough progress on global standards against financial crimes to warrant its exclusion from the watchdog’s grey list.
The Paris-based global body is working to curb terrorism financing and money laundering and has asked Pakistan to reassess the operation of banned terrorist outfits in the country.
Pakistan is under intense international pressure to rein in terror groups like the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) after the Pulwama terror attack.
In June last year, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had placed Pakistan on the grey list of countries whose domestic laws are considered weak to tackle the challenges of money laundering and terrorism financing.
The delegation of the Asia-Pacific Group (APG), a group linked to the FATF, comprises senior officials, including Ian Collins of New Scotland Yard, James Prussing of Department of the Treasury, United States, and Ashraf Abdulla of Financial Intelligence Unit, Maldives, the Geo News reported. Other experts are Boby Wahyu Hernawan of Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance, Gong Jingyan of People’s Bank of China, Mustafa Necmeddin of Turkey’s Ministry of Justice, Deputy Director Muhammad Al-Rashdan and Deputy Director Shannon Rutherford, the report said.
The meetings will start on Tuesday and will end on Thursday. The country has taken certain steps since the February 18-22 meetings with FATF functionaries to comply with latest instructions to meet various deadlines in order to avoid being included in a blacklist. — PTI
Pak: F-16 not used
- Pakistan's military has rejected India's claim that it used US-made F-16 fighters jets against India in retaliation to its pre-emptive strikes on a JeM terror camp in Balakot
- It claimed JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft developed jointly with China were used in the operation
- The US had said it was seeking information from Pakistan on use of American-made F-16 jets against India in violation of end-user agreement
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