ISLAMABAD: Three key Pakistan-friendly countries, China, Turkey and Malaysia have been assured of support for FATF, which has led to the possibility of failing Indian ambitions regarding the inclusion of Pakistan in the blacklist. ۔
Pakistan's technical team has arrived in China under the chairmanship of the Director General Financial Monitoring Unit and will travel from China to Paris today (Tuesday) for talks with FATF while Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Hamad Azhar will go to Paris on Wednesday and attend the FIFT meeting. He will travel to the United States to attend the World Bank and IMF meetings later.
In this regard, a senior finance ministry official told The Express on Monday that Pakistan's name could not be included in the FIFT blacklist if it was supported by three member countries in FATF.
Sources say money laundering in an on-site review report made by the Asia Pacific Group in October 2018 at the Paris Fatwa meeting about removing objections raised to curb terrorist financing Will be informed of the progress made.