 Facing the prospect of punitive actions, Pakistan has sent a top official to plead its case at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in Paris that will take up a US-sponsored resolution to put Islamabad on a list of countries that financially support terrorism.
A media report said today that Pakistan has sent Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Dr Miftah Ismail to attend the FATF meeting at a time when the activities of Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation have created problems for the Pakistan government.
The US and the UK have moved a motion to place Pakistan on the FATF terrorist-financing watch-list. France and Germany are co-sponsoring the move, the report said.
The meetings involve more than 700 delegates from the 203 jurisdictions of the FATF Global Network, as well as the UN, IMF, World Bank and other partners.
If the FATF adopts the resolution, Pakistan could once again be placed on the grey list of countries with deficient anti-money laundering regimes.
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