Irked with Pakistan's attitude, FAFT members give three months deadline; Will Pakistan seriously act against terrorism?

New Delhi, June 23: Jotting down points to act and actually executing those points into action are two completely different things. Walking on the same track, Pakistan also slated forward the ways they would act on terrorism but did not execute them. And paying a hefty price for the same, the neighboring country has been ‘grey-listed’ by international counter terror funding organization, Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

 

With this, Pakistan has called in for more trouble as the member countries of FATF have notified that the country has not taken any strong action to combat terrorism. Four member nations (United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France) who have stood by India thoroughly in its quest to counter terrorism, have expressed their displeasure towards Pakistan’s failure of the 27-point action plan of the international watchdog.

Standing by its words, India’s stand at the FATF plenary and other related discussions have been consistent regarding Pakistan. India supporting the four nominating countries have unanimously voiced their concern that Pakistan is not doing enough to contain terror funding on its soil.

Continuing to state that it has done enough to counter terrorism, the nation states that it has seized 700+ properties of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, JuD, FiF, JeM. However, the member nations of FATF do not consider it enough to counter and act against it. Moreover, it also stated that there are no cases registered against terror lederships namely, Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar and other UN-designated terrorist.

Highlighting one of the key points, the FATF pointed that it is the absence of a proper understanding in Pakistan of trans-national risk - risk posed to neighbouring and other nations by designated terrorist organisations based in Pakistan. Likewise, India has also been raising the same issue at various forum. Pakistan has been responsible for destabilisation of the region, some of the members believe. In February 2019 (in Paris) and in May 2019 (in Guangzhou), the same point had been highlighted by these countries and supported by India.

As of now, it has been reported that Pakistan’s close ally China along with Turkey and Malaysia have made sure that Pakistan’s status does not move from grey-list to blacklist. Giving Pakistan another lifeline, FATF has asserted that the final call on whether the nation will be black listed or not will be taken in the month of October.