Indian Lies On FATF.

Byline: Alia shoukat

The Indian media as well its Ministry of External Affairs have been falsely claiming that the June 24 plenary meeting of FATF decided to keep Pakistan on the grey list due to the country's failure in becoming compliant to the body's recommendations. As clarified by Pakistan's Foreign Office, the fact is that Pakistan was not even on the agenda. The review process has been halted for at least four months due to the COVID-19 situation, and the body has simply maintained status quo, which does not speak to Pakistan's performance one way or the other. Indian propaganda reveals desperation in New Delhi, which has been on a mission to vilify Pakistan internationally while seeking to score political points with its domestic audience through incessant lying and misreporting.

During the last review meeting, FATF in fact acknowledged that Pakistan had indeed made progress on several fronts. Pakistan's report highlighted the several measures it had taken, which included money laundering investigations, proscribing organisations, registration of terror-financing cases and convictions, amending money laundering laws, seizures and confiscations of properties and...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT