by Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, May 2, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Chinese decision to lift its technical hold on listing Maulana Masood Azhar as a global terrorist flabbergasted diplomatic observers here Wednesday as the decision has come in less than a week of an important meeting between visiting Pakistan’s top leadership and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing where the former had gone to participate in second Belt and Road International Forum (BRF). The observers…
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by Shishir Gupta in Hindustan Times, May 2, 2019 at 11.24 IST New Delhi: The June 2010 interrogation of Mumbai attacks accused David Coleman Headley by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) provides a fascinating insight into the competitive rivalry among Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) fighters to hurts India the most by killing innocents. Headley, a US national of Pakistani origin, recounted that it was after the success of LeT’s Abdur Rehman Hashim’s “Karachi project”, which produced Indian…
report in Daily Times, April 27, 2019 Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that his government will, if necessary, seek Pakistan’s help to trace the terrorists involved in the recent Easter Sunday bombings. In an exclusive interview with an international newspaper published on Friday, Wickremesinghe pointed out that Pakistan had in the past ‘fully supported Sri Lanka’s war on terror’. “If necessary, we will seek their help to trace the terrorists and eliminate…
(The writer is a retired military officer and president of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies) The violent incident that took place in Sri Lanka on Sunday has been the largest terrorist attack in recent times. So far no international outfit or any group within Sri Lanka has taken responsibility for the attacks. However, evidence indicates the attacks were carried out by a religion-based group, though their identity remains unclear. Only recently there was…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, March 13th, 2019 WASHINGTON: The United States is urging Pakistan to see the “urgency” of taking action against “terrorists” as the UN Security Council takes up a resolution declaring Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist. US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo emphasised the need for an immediate action against terrorists at a meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale in Washington on Monday, the State Department said.…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, March 8th, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has warned that the country will face international sanctions if no action is taken against proscribed organisations. He was speaking at a press conference held here on Thursday to inform the media about the decisions made by the federal cabinet earlier in the day. According to the minister, the cabinet, in its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, decided to…
by Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, March 6th, 2019 RAWALPINDI: At least two seminaries and property belonging to proscribed Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat (FIF) were taken over by the government in a fresh crackdown launched by the law enforcement agencies under the National Action Plan (NAP) on Tuesday. Major actions were taken in Chakwal and Attock districts after the additional chief secretary of Punjab in a meeting with commissioners and divisional police heads via a…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, March 4th, 2019 A recent warning to Pakistan by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to deliver on its commitments to curb terror financing and money laundering risks to the global financial system has virtually put the country’s entire machinery into an aggressive mode to show tangible progress within two months. The achievement of 27 targets under a 10-point action plan has now become…
The author is a member of the staff As part of its ongoing review of compliance with the AML/CFT (Anti Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism) standards, the Paris-based global anti-terror financing watchdog, FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has in its review statement issued on Feb 22, expressed some satisfaction on the steps taken by Pakistan towards improving its AML/CFT regime [See Box for details]. Nevertheless, the FATF also identifies 10 “jurisdiction deficiencies” that…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, February 18th, 2019 ISLAMABAD: A four-member Pakistani delegation will be witnessing on Monday a review in Paris of its performance by an expert group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on its compliance with global guidelines against terror financing and money laundering. The Asia-Pacific Group (APG), an associate firm of the Paris-based FATF, will present Pakistan’s report and responses to five specific queries it was asked last month to…
by Mehtab Haider in The News, February 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The European Commission (EC) has adopted the list of 23 countries, including Pakistan, with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing frameworks. “Today, the commission adopted its new list of 23 countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks,” said official statement issued by the EC from Strasbourg on Wednesday. Many Middle East countries are also included in the…