Attacking Pakistan's Economy Via FATF.

Byline: Senator Rehman Malik

Pakistan is getting consistent blows from inimical International pro-Indian groups, the likes of FATF, for instance, if one can say. Hybrid war model has been launched against Pakistan as a joint venture of USA and India, which is being used to shatter our economy and derail our national progress. The retention of Pakistan in the grey list is a big jolt to its already fragile economy. Moreover, it has exposed our poor foreign policy and the miserable failure of our so-called backchannel diplomacy with India and the USA.

Some of the former diplomats who suggested such back door channels owe an explanation. They need to tell what made them believe in compiling a report to assure the government and the institutions that re-election of Narendra Modi would benefit Pakistan in any way. Let's not talk about what his re-election meant for the people of Kashmir. One cannot stand the stupidity of such analysts.

Indian NSA Mr Dovel created this deceptive mode and disinformation. This 'Modi friendly' false alarm was deliberately fed through the back channels to the Pak authorities/ MOFA to keep Pakistan on the BJP side and to avoid any moral support to the Indian National Congress. India's Pro-Modi Raw played three tricks in which our 'backchannel operators' on Pak expense were used and the main members still have their relatives in India and their think tank getting huge funds and running these intuitions at the cost of national humiliation.

This is the reason behind Pakistan expecting neither the Kashmir blow in the form of change of status nor the shocking jerk of continuity of being on the grey list by FATF. In fact, the same backchannels had misinformed the government that the USA would get Pakistan out of FATF. Be thankful to such backchannel experts that Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was confidently seen saying that Pakistan would be out of the grey list. It is the public's right to ask MOFA whether it will make the name of these back channels public and the funds which their institutions received from the public exchequer.

The FATF decision of retaining Pakistan in the grey list shows total disrespect to the country which has sacrificed 70,000 lives in the 'War on Terror'. The FATF's decision is highly condemnable. Factually all the Jihadi organisations in question by FATF are the by-products of the War on Terror that Pakistan fought side by side with the US. If we go back, then the history of these organisations'...