Pakistan has to continue in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list or Increased Monitoring List. The decision was taken in the FATF meeting. While recognising 'substantial' progress made by Islamabad in addressing strategic deficiencies in its anti-money laundering or combating the financing of terrorism regime, global terror watchdog FATF retained Pakistan on the grey list. The Paris-based body admitted Islamabad had now largely addressed 26 of the 27 items in its 2018 action plan to combat terror financing. The one remaining unaddressed item, because of which Pakistan couldn't exit the grey list, relates to the need to demonstrate that terror-financing investigations and prosecutions target senior leaders and commanders of UN-designated terrorist groups. FATF president Marcus Pleyer described it as a key issue that Pakistan needed to address.