Will be removed from FATF’s gray list in next meeting: Finance Minister

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has expressed hope that Pakistan will be removed from the gray list, at the next FATF review meeting. Informing the Senate about the current situation of Pakistan in the FATF gray list, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said that 27 out of 28 conditions have been met. Countries that have taken a stand against us are not our friends, but there is no button for it, to be turned on or off immediately. Senate of Pakistan member, Pir Sabir Shah, said that this is a good button that has not been turned on for three and a half years. PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui has said that so far, government ministers and spokespersons have been laying the rubble of their poor performance on the Nawaz Sharif government. Today the [PTI] government itself has admitted that during the PML-N era, Pakistan’s name was shifted from FATF’s gray list to the white list where it remained till the end of the PML-N government’s tenure. French lawyer slams EU over post featuring a Muslim woman Remittances touch to record $18b in seven months What is FATF and how does it work? The decision to set up the Financial Action Task … Continue reading Will be removed from FATF’s gray list in next meeting: Finance Minister