UNITED NATIONS: China has formerly again baffled an Indian move in the United Nations to calumniate Pakistan just days before an important meeting of the Financial Action Task Force( FATF).
The first FATF grand under the two-time Singapore administration is taking place on Oct 20-21 in Paris.
The fiscal watchdog is anticipated to consider an offer to move Pakistan from the so-called argentine list of implicit violators to the whitelist.
On Tuesday, India made a move in the United States to blacklist Shahid Mahmood, who had been designated by the US in 2016 as a Lashkar-e-Taiba fundraiser. On Wednesday, India made another move to blacklist Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba principal Hafiz Saeed.
China, is still, baffled by both moves putting a hold on the Indian proffers.
pressing similar groups so near to the FATF grand would have boosted India’s sweats to keep Pakistan on the Argentinian list.
“These Indian rosters relate to dying organisations and are designed to calumniate Pakistan and distract attention from India’s backing of TTP and BLA terrorism,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram told Dawn.
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Besides supporting terrorist groups in Pakistan, India was also going for Chinese targets to “sabotage CPEC and Pakistan-China profitable cooperation,” Ambassador Akram added. “We’re glad China has rejected India’s malign moves.”
In Islamabad, a prophet for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs told intelligencers that similar moves were part of a “malignant crusade” by India, through media leaks.
“This isn’t the first time the Indian media has been fed through sanctioned leaks to promote deceiving, unwarranted and fabricated propaganda against Pakistan, just before the sanctioned FATF meetings,” the prophet said.
The statement noted that the FATF and the wider transnational community “ has constantly conceded the way taken by Pakistan to ameliorate its anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing governance. ”
The prophet refocused that despite India’s “feverish attempts” to politicise the process and cast dubieties on Pakistan’s sweats and accomplishments, FATF agreed in its June 2022 Plenary meeting that Pakistan had completely completed all substantial and procedural conditions of both its 2018 and 2021 Action Plans.
