China Urged The World To Recognize Pakistan’s Sacrifices
China Urged The World To Recognize Pakistan’s Sacrifices: Pakistan’s countless efforts and sacrifices by the government and people in the fight against terrorism should be fully recognized by the international community, urges China.
This was stated by Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Lu Kang during a regular briefing in Beijing.
Responding to a question regarding the listing of Pakistan on the Global Funding Terrorism Watch List by the FATF meeting, he said Pakistan’s efforts in combating terrorism, under its very difficult conditions, have recognized not only in China but also many other countries of the international community.
He stressed that all parties will treat Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts objectively and impartially, instead of relying on criticism and pressure.
The spokesperson said in recent years, Pakistan has actively taken measures to strengthen financial supervision and crack down on terrorist financing and made important progress.
Earlier, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) formally placed Pakistan on the grey list due to ‘strategic deficiencies’ in its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime.
The decision came despite Islamabad showing progress in the majority of areas identified as threat the international terror financing watchdog.
The highly anticipated decision was taken by the FATF Plenary that met in Paris from June 24 to 29. The global body took the decision on the basis of a monitoring report of the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG).
Pakistan is placed among the jurisdictions (states) with strategic deficiencies Ethiopia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Yemen.
The FATF called on all those jurisdictions to complete implementation of the action plans expeditiously and within the proposed timeframes, vowing to closely monitor the implementation of those action plans.
However, the ICRG report showed that Pakistan did show progress on three out of four major areas of concerns. Cross-border smuggling of cash was the only major area where Pakistan admitted deficiencies.
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