Pakistan faces Indian strong threat over FATF Blacklist
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ISLAMABAD -Pakistan faces Indian diplomatic onslaught over FATF Blacklist.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan referred to India’s efforts as part of a concerted plan against his country. “We found India was pushing to blacklist us at FATF, and we realised they have an agenda,” he said at the Council for Foreign Relations.
Indian PM Modi is lobbying and convasing against Pakistan and recent reference to FATF Blacklist and UNSC listings comes months after China finally withdrew its veto on the sanctions listing of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, something Beijing had opposed for more than a decade.
The reference to the FATF is significant, as the global body to counter terror financing will meet in November this year to decide on whether Pakistan should be ‘blacklisted’ for its failure to take credible action.
China has assumed the presidency of the group that works by consensus, and India has been keen to see Pakistan, which is on the FATF ‘grey list’ at present, face stricter financial scrutiny till it stops terror groups listed by the UNSC from operating there.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan referred to India’s efforts at the FATF as part of a concerted plan against his country. “We found India was pushing to blacklist us at FATF, and we realised they have an agenda,” he said at the Council for Foreign Relations.
Significantly, the FATF came up at another UN session on Monday, an informal meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), where Indian and Pakistani ministers were present.
Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan stated, “Organisations such as the FATF are engaged in maintaining integrity of the international financial system in Asia for combating terror financing. Members of the CICA must continue to support the FATF in its endeavours.”
