Despite the lack of commitment of Imran Khan's government to undermine anti-money laundering operations from its soil and counter-terrorism financing, Pakistan is on the blacklist and the world's top anti-terrorism watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF ) Survived the international ban in some way but was severely reprimanded for failing to adequately tighten the financing of terrorism. If he continues with his old stand of supporting terrorist groups, then a sword of the ban is hanging over his head, which can be imposed after three months. This organization, which monitors terrorist activities, has already banned North Korea and Iran.
The first follow-up report on Pakistan's Mutual Evaluation released recently by Asia-Pacific Group (APG) underlined that the progress of forty FATF recommendations related to the effectiveness of the anti-money laundering and terrorism financing system in the country is largely in progress. There is no change. The APG report says that surprisingly Pakistan could fully implement only two of the 40 FATF recommendations and could be blacklisted when the group meets in the next three months. Experts believe that Pakistan may also be blacklisted in the coming February when the next meeting of the FATF will take place. Pakistan was placed in the gray list of the task force last year, which made it more difficult for the government to raise money in the international bond market then. This is when Pakistan's debt crisis is overshadowing its economy, and which is already suppressed by China's huge debt. Pak officials are making false claims about curbing terrorist activities to please America.
Experts say the major factor that helped Pakistan avoid sanctions was the continued effort by the US to reach a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan's cooperation is considered important to him. China also jumped in to help Pakistan in its ranks. Pakistani officials, however, say they have nudged the terror network that once ran their activities from their land. They claim that the terrorist hideouts in Muzaffarabad, once the epicenter of terrorism and where the offices were used to raise funds and recruit recruits, have been closed. Pak bureaucrats are confident that the measures taken by the government will prevent its blacklisting. Recently, allies like China, Turkey, and Malaysia supported Pakistan during the APG meeting.
Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, the Prime Minister's advisor on financial matters, vowed that the government would better implement the workforce's work plan for the country. He said that curbing money laundering is a major goal of the Prime Minister. Not only because the FATF is asking to do this, but it is also in the national interest. And these efforts will soon leave the country off the gray list. Pakistani authorities claim to have arrested the four mobsters of the Jamaat-ud Dawa, but it turns out that Pakistan's actions against the terrorists are merely superficial and aimed only at misleading Western nations.
The government of Pakistan has repeatedly relied on the American lobbying company to stop FATF action and come out of the gray list. Some reports state that Pakistan has enlisted the services of Texas-based Lyndon Strategies to persuade the Trump administration. Through this, Pakistan is trying to influence America, which claims action against terrorist groups seriously, although the reality is different. Pakistan needs the support of at least 12 of the 39 member countries to remove its name from the gray list and is largely dependent on the US and China viewpoints.
The FATF has expressed grave concern, expressing displeasure over the actions taken by Pakistan to counter-terrorism financing and money laundering. However, Pakistan's Finance Ministry says it is committed to fully implementing the FATF action plan. Well, in a video, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan discovered a new industry worth millions of dollars to bring the economy back on track, which has become a source of entertainment on the Internet. That video can be seen addressing an event in 2018, Imran Khan, who is discussing a unique experiment in poultry farming on how more eggs and more chickens can be sold than thousands of chickens. The audience is making fun of his suggestion.
In the current scenario, netizens (Internet viewers) compare Imran Khan's ambitious poultry farming experiment with the scene in Paresh Rawal aka Teja's film Andaz Apna Apna, in which Teja aka Shyam Gopal Bajaj (Paresh Rawal) plans to open poultry form Talks about On the lines of Paresh Rawal's popular dialogue-'Bred Ka Badshah and Omelette Ka Raja-Bajaj ', netizens are calling Imran Khan the' new king of omelet '.