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‘Is FATF a political forum or technical,’ asks FM Qureshi after Pakistan retained on grey list Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. File photo ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday criticized the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) after it retained the country on its grey list despite completing the work on 26 out of 27 points of the action plan given in 2018. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in a statement, questioned the decision of the FATF, saying “it is to be determined whether FATF is a political forum or a technical one and whether it is being used to achieve political objectives. The FATF, after a five-day plenary meeting, appreciated on Friday Pakistan s progress and efforts to address items on its country action plan and announced to keep the country on its grey list till it addressed the one remaining CFT-related item . It has also handed the government six new anti-money laundering areas to work on. ....
Although China has made constant efforts to inform the world about its human rights developments, some Western countries choose to ignore the facts and use attacks on the nation's human rights issues as a political tool to curb the country's development, human rights experts said. ....
Factor in inflation for other goods and a lot of people are going to realize they’re worse off than one year ago. And that was during the pandemic. ....