Islamabad: In a possible respite for Pakistan, the global terror watchdog, FATFhas allowed to visit the site Pakistan To verify its action against terrorist-financing and money laundering. Pakistan will remain on the gray or extended watch list for now, even though the visit to the site is seen as a first step towards its removal.
Members of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday claimed credit for the FATF’s announcement that Pakistan had completed all 34 items on two separate action plans, leading to The way was paved for the country’s exit from the gray list. The watchman
The Global Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Watchdog said in its statement that if Pakistan successfully passes the on-site visit, it will be removed from the gray list.
“Pakistan’s continued political commitment to combating both terrorist financing and money laundering has led to significant progress. In particular, Pakistan demonstrated that the TF (terrorist financing) investigations and prosecutions of senior leaders and commanders of terrorist groups designated by the United Nations and it has a positive trend of increasing number of ongoing ML (Money Laundering) investigations and prosecutions in Pakistan, in line with the risk profile of Pakistan. In addition, Pakistan has also announced its 2021 Action Plan ahead of schedule. addressed extensively,” the global body said in a statement. There was no response from the Government of India for the development.
After development, former PM Imran Khan Said “FATF has repeatedly praised the work and my government has demonstrated political will”.
He said when PTI’s government came to power in 2018 it faced a “direct possibility of blacklisting” by the body, adding that the country’s compliance history with the FATF was also not favourable.
“I set up a FATF Coordination Committee under the chairmanship of the prime minister” hammad azhari, The committee had representation from all government departments and security agencies related to our FATF action plan. The officers worked day and night in the first instance to avoid blacklisting,” Khan said.
“FATF has repeatedly praised the work and political will of my government. We not only avoided blacklisting, but also completed 32 action items out of 34. We submitted a compliance report on the remaining two items in April, based on which the FATF has now declared Pakistan’s action plan complete,” he said.
Hammad Azhar, sharing a picture of him standing with officials, said Pakistan’s hard work to complete the 34-action item was the result of “teamwork of officers working day and night in various government departments”. They are the real heroes!”
former finance minister shaukat tarino Said that the “removal” was another feather in the cap of Hammad Azhar, a former energy minister and also the government’s top coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing efforts.
When the Minister of State for External Affairs Hina Rabbani KharoRepresenting the Pakistan team at the latest plenary session of the FATF in Berlin, when asked how much credit she would give to the previous government, she replied: “Whoever wants to take credit can do so. Our job is to work for Pakistan, we will continue to work and we don’t care who gets the credit and who doesn’t.”
Meanwhile, the official Twitter handle of the ruling PML-N criticized the previous PTI government for isolating Pakistan diplomatically, leading to various economic sanctions.
It said that now, however, the nations of the world had agreed to restore relations and the world’s confidence in Pakistan was being restored.
Members of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday claimed credit for the FATF’s announcement that Pakistan had completed all 34 items on two separate action plans, leading to The way was paved for the country’s exit from the gray list. The watchman
The Global Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Watchdog said in its statement that if Pakistan successfully passes the on-site visit, it will be removed from the gray list.
“Pakistan’s continued political commitment to combating both terrorist financing and money laundering has led to significant progress. In particular, Pakistan demonstrated that the TF (terrorist financing) investigations and prosecutions of senior leaders and commanders of terrorist groups designated by the United Nations and it has a positive trend of increasing number of ongoing ML (Money Laundering) investigations and prosecutions in Pakistan, in line with the risk profile of Pakistan. In addition, Pakistan has also announced its 2021 Action Plan ahead of schedule. addressed extensively,” the global body said in a statement. There was no response from the Government of India for the development.
After development, former PM Imran Khan Said “FATF has repeatedly praised the work and my government has demonstrated political will”.
He said when PTI’s government came to power in 2018 it faced a “direct possibility of blacklisting” by the body, adding that the country’s compliance history with the FATF was also not favourable.
“I set up a FATF Coordination Committee under the chairmanship of the prime minister” hammad azhari, The committee had representation from all government departments and security agencies related to our FATF action plan. The officers worked day and night in the first instance to avoid blacklisting,” Khan said.
“FATF has repeatedly praised the work and political will of my government. We not only avoided blacklisting, but also completed 32 action items out of 34. We submitted a compliance report on the remaining two items in April, based on which the FATF has now declared Pakistan’s action plan complete,” he said.
Hammad Azhar, sharing a picture of him standing with officials, said Pakistan’s hard work to complete the 34-action item was the result of “teamwork of officers working day and night in various government departments”. They are the real heroes!”
former finance minister shaukat tarino Said that the “removal” was another feather in the cap of Hammad Azhar, a former energy minister and also the government’s top coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing efforts.
When the Minister of State for External Affairs Hina Rabbani KharoRepresenting the Pakistan team at the latest plenary session of the FATF in Berlin, when asked how much credit she would give to the previous government, she replied: “Whoever wants to take credit can do so. Our job is to work for Pakistan, we will continue to work and we don’t care who gets the credit and who doesn’t.”
Meanwhile, the official Twitter handle of the ruling PML-N criticized the previous PTI government for isolating Pakistan diplomatically, leading to various economic sanctions.
It said that now, however, the nations of the world had agreed to restore relations and the world’s confidence in Pakistan was being restored.