Pakistan PM Imran Khan.
Pakistan will continue to remain on the gray list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it is yet to fully implement the 27-point action plan on money laundering and terror financing.
“Pakistan is under constant surveillance. It has comprehensively addressed 26 of the 27 items of the Action Plan,” FATF President Marcus Pleier said.
Incidentally, this announcement by the FATF comes a day after India’s National Security Advisor (NSA). Ajit Doval has pitched for an “action plan” against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed under the framework of the eight-nation grouping SCO and calls for the perpetrators of terrorist attacks to be brought to justice has done.
Official sources said that at a personal meeting of top security officials of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe on Wednesday, they discussed the full implementation of UN resolutions and targeted sanctions against UN-designated terrorist individuals and entities. Also invoked. .
Doval also stressed on the adoption of international standards to combat the financing of terrorism and suggested a Memorandum of Understanding between the SCO and the Anti-Terrorism Monitoring FATF.
In recent months, Pakistan has been scrambling to avoid being included in a list of countries deemed non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing rules by the global watchdog.
In June 2018, Pakistan was placed on the gray list by the FATF. Islamabad was asked to implement a 27-point action plan to curb money laundering and terror financing by the end of 2019. However, the deadline was later extended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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In February this year, the FATF gave a fourth extension to Pakistan to fully implement the 27-point action plan and to fulfill the remaining three conditions regarding terrorism financing investigations and UN Security Council resolutions. strongly urged”.
(with inputs from PTI)
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