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| Put back on terror-financing watch list, Pakistan vows to improve |
| 2018-07-01 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Placed back on a terror financing watch list this week, Pakistain vowed on Saturday to tighten regulations and follow an action plan to curb money laundering and terror financing. Pak officials attending a meeting in Gay Paree had tried in vain to persuade the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to keep Pakistain off a list of nations with inadequate controls to prevent terror financing and money laundering. Western allies have long pushed Islamabad to do more to curb turban groups on its soil, and the United States, United Kingdom, La Belle France and Germany all argued back in February for Pakistain to be reinserted on the watchdog’s "grey list". Various anti-Western, anti-Indian Islamist turban groups are based in nuclear-armed Pakistain, while Afghanistan and western military officials have repeatedly complained about covert support in Pakistain for the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... and its cohorts, like the Haqqani group. Pakistain was included on the watch list for three years until 2015, and FATF has told the government what needs to be done in order to be taken off again. Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar, who is part of the technocratic administration running the country until a general election on July 25, told FATF members in Gay Paree that Pakistain plans to take a "whole-of-government" approach to strengthen counter-terrorism financing measures. The finance ministry said Akhtar has set up an "institutional coordination and monitoring mechanism" to ensure that the action plan is implemented. The return to a watch list could further handicap chances of attracting Western investment in Pakistain’s fragile economy, but it has China’s support for major infrastructure projects. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I trust you. I really do. Because after I get Persia back, you are top of the list. No matter what Persia decides to do. Nice to meet you Pakistan. YOU ARE OF MINE CONCERN. I will use any interest to maintain the violence of whatever you are and what ever that is from becoming frankentalib. Ergo, I label you FrankenTalib with nukes and we all know what I AM talking about. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-07-01 01:30 |