The Gay Paree-based global watchdog against financial crimes had expressed dissatisfaction over considering these entities as low to medium risk and said Pakistain did "not demonstrate a proper understanding of the terror financing risks posed by ISIS, AQ (Al Qaeda), Jud (Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
), FIF (Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation), LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
), JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally
Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf
bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
), HQN (Haqqani network
), and persons affiliated with the Taliban...mindless ferocity in a turban...
All these entities have now been described as high-risk entities and would be subject to greater scrutiny by all agencies and institutions of the state, starting from their registration to operations and from their fund collection to bank accounts and issuance of suspicious transactions, information sharing and so on, explained an official. He said these decisions were taken at a meeting of the general council on FATF led by Finance Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan as part of a series of meetings to comply with the FATF obligations.