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FATF succumbs to Chinese 🇨🇳 pressure and so doesn't blacklist Pakistan

Pakistan 🇵🇰 adopts the tactic of showcasing strict action against terror financing and terror organisations are continuing to function freely in the country

#IndiaNarrative

Pak has been using its established and active money laundering networks in Africa and Europe not only for ordinary Pakistanis sending remittances, but also for terror groups and the Pakistani intelligence to fund their activities abroad.

The UK has put Pakistan on its high risk list of countries due to its money laundering and terror financing activities, since the money laundered through these networks is used to fund criminal activities.

Pakistan has well-established and active drug trafficking networks in Europe and Africa. The money generated through these networks is an important source of income for terror activities, and is used to finance militancy in Africa

FATF is dragging its feet on these issues in Pakistan due to China's considerable influence on the organisation. China's economic influence over the West consequently results in these FATF member countries also not holding Pakistan accountable for these activities.

China, a close strategic partner of Pakistan, has a poor record of compliance with targeted financial sanction regimes, and is also committing grave human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and other parts of the country.

As the final outcome of FATF to come on June 25, the global financing watchdog should consider the impact of growing Pak-China nexus in terror financing to save the world from terrorism.