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FATF President said, “Since Pakistan has completed 21 of 27 items, largely completed.. but the 6 outstanding items are very serious deficiencies that still have to be repaired.”

Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) on Friday (October 23) listed 6 “serious deficiencies” which include Islamabad’s lack of implementation of financial sanctions on United Nations Security Council listed terrorists like Masood Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim, Zakir-ur-Rahman Lakhvi. While on expected lines, Pakistan continues to be on FATF’s grey list, the anti-terror financing body has asked Islamabad to do more since the risks have not gone.

In light of a WION question at the presser after the 3-day virtual gathering, Marcus Pleyer, FATF President stated, “Since Pakistan has finished 21 of 27 things, generally finished.. however, the 6 exceptional things are intense inadequacies that actually must be fixed. Thus, the dangers haven’t gone, Pakistan govt must put forth a valiant effort to fix and to deal with these remarkable 6 things”

Subsequent to being greylisted in June 2018, Pakistan was given an activity plan with 27 things to improve and acquire straightforwardness its monetary framework so cash isn’t utilized to subsidize dread.

The 6 things recorded by FATF on which moves haven’t been made incorporate “exhibiting compelling execution of focused money related authorizations against each of the 1267 and 1373 assigned psychological oppressors and those representing or for their benefit, forestalling the raising and moving of assets… freezing resources (versatile and enduring), and denying admittance to reserves and monetary administrations”.

1267 is the UN list on which global fear based oppressors are recorded. Pakistan has the most elevated number of its nationals on the rundown. Being on the dark rundown implies, the nation needs to make changes in its budgetary framework with the goal that cash isn’t utilized for illegal intimidation. As per the Pakistan government’s own assessment, the nation loses $10 billion every year by being on the rundown.

As all activity plan cutoff times have lapsed and FATF has “emphatically asked” Islamabad to quickly finish its full activity plan by February 2021. When it finishes all the activity designs, an on location visit by the FATF group will choose if activity plans have surely been actualized.

India on Thursday had repeated that Islamabad has not made any move on psychological oppressors it has been giving places of refuge.

Service of outside issues representative Anurag Srivastava said,” As is notable, Pakistan keeps on giving places of refuge to fear monger elements and people and has likewise not yet made any move against a few psychological oppressor elements and people including those prohibited by the UNSC, for example, Masood Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim, Zakir-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, and so forth”

The psychological oppressors recorded by India are liable for various fear assaults in India like the 26/11 Mumbai dread assaults.