Pak Rejects Reports on Its FATF Grey List, Says ‘No Decision’ Taken at Plenary

Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated on Thursday that Pakistan’s continuation at the Gray Record of the FATF vindicated India’s place that the rustic had no longer taken any suitable motion towards terror networks working from its soil. Reacting to MEA’s remarks, the Pakistan International Place of business stated the Indian professional was once responding to the “fabricated information stories within the Indian media”.

It stated in a observation that Pakistan was once ready to offer its growth report back to the FATF within the plenary assembly scheduled for this month.

Then again, because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the FATF made up our minds on April 28 a common pause for 4 months within the overview procedure for a variety of nations, together with Pakistan, beneath the ICRG (World Cooperation Evaluate Staff) evaluate, the observation stated.

The schedule of the FATF’s digital plenary assembly, hung on June 24, didn’t come with Pakistan, the International Place of business (FO) stated.

“On this digital plenary assembly, no new choice referring to Pakistan was once made,” it stated.

The choices taken via the FATF within the February 2020 plenary assembly referring to a variety of nations together with Pakistan stay in impact and the analysis of Pakistan’s FATF Motion Plan could be made within the subsequent plenary cycle of FATF, through which Pakistan would provide its growth file, the FO stated.

Stories within the Indian media insinuating that the FATF has put Pakistan at the Gray Record are “patently deceptive” and a part of the incessant “smear marketing campaign” via India towards Pakistan, it stated.

Pakistan again and again drew the eye of the world neighborhood in opposition to India’s “sinister” makes an attempt to make use of the FATF procedure for its slim political positive factors, the FO stated.

“Pakistan has additionally been elevating the problem of India’s doubtful credentials as an independent and goal assessor of Pakistan’s growth at the FATF Motion Plan,” it stated.

India’s efforts to “misuse” the technical discussion board of FATF for discrediting Pakistan had been spotted via FATF contributors and don’t seem to be liked via the world neighborhood, the International Place of business stated.

“We are hoping that the FATF club would take cognisance of India’s malicious marketing campaign towards Pakistan and reject any try at politicising the FATF court cases,” it stated, including that Pakistan was once dedicated to finishing its FATF Motion Plan and making growth.

The International Place of business additionally stated that Pakistan utterly rejects the MEA spokesperson’s terrorism-related allegations towards Pakistan.

Paris-based FATF put Pakistan at the gray listing in June 2018 and the rustic agreed to paintings on an motion plan to satisfy its legal responsibility via October 2019. Later, this date was once prolonged till February 2020.