Awareness sessions about hazards of money laundering planned.

Byline: Muhammad Akbar Notezai

QUETTA -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Pakistan, is conducting a series of outreach sessions in collaboration with the Federal Board of Revenue to create awareness about international standards, domestic frameworks, risks and controls against money laundering and terrorism financing.

The UNODC has been working with the government of Pakistan to strengthen frameworks and capacities of its institutions that are performing key roles in the fight against financial crimes, including corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing.

In line with its five-year country programme and under its Anti-Money LaunAdering (AML) support programme, the delivery of these outreach sessions has been collaborated closely with key governmental insAtitutions of Pakistan that are central to the framework of AML and the Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) of the country.

These institutions incluAAde: Ministry of Foreign AfAAfairs; Financial Monitoring Unit; Securities and ExchAaAnge Commission of PakisAtan; National Counter TerAroAAArism Authority; and FedAeral Board of Revenue.

FBR's Inland Revenue office in Quetta has extended...