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| Pakistan claims reprieve on terror tag | | | Agencies
WASHINGTON: Pakistan claimed it had thwarted a US bid to place it on a terror-financing+ watch-list although it appeared the beleaguered country has been granted a three month reprieve to clean up its act by a Paris-based international watchdog monitoring compliance.
"Our efforts paid, FATF Paris 20 Feb meeting conclusion on US led motion to put Pakistan on watch list -- No consensus for nominating Pakistan," Pakistan’s foreign minister Khwaja Asif tweeted on Tuesday evening, based on which Pakistani media reported that the US bid to put Pakistan on terror financing watch-list "falls through."
But in the very next line, Asif revealed that the meeting was "proposing 3 months pause & asking APG for another report to be considered in June," indicating that the reprieve was temporary and subject to Islamabad fulfilling its obligation to crack down on terror financing. APG is the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which took up the matter of Pakistan’s patronage of terrorism this week.
"Grateful to friends who helped," Asif, who was reported to be in Moscow, added in a clear reference to China, which typically gives cover to Pakistan's terrorism troubles and was expected to plead Islamabad be given more time. |
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