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New Delhi, March 4 Pakistan is likely to remain on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for another four months until June for a couple of unmet targets under the additional criteria, a Dawn news report said.The concluding session of the plenary meeting of the FATF, a Paris-based global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, is due on Friday and includes Pakistan's review on the agenda.Pakistan is now targeting the full completion of the 2021 action plan on anti-money laundering and combating terror financing (AML/CFT) by the end of January 2023, the report said.Pakistan has been on the grey list for deficiencies in its counter-terror financing and anti-money laundering regimes since June 2018.In October 2021, the FATF acknowledged Pakistan's progress on a 27-point action plan on completion of 26 items but retained the country on its "increased monitoring list" to exhibit terror financing investigations against and prosecutions of top cadres of UN-designated terror groups.At the time, FATF President Marcus Pleyer said Pakistan had to complete two concurrent action plans with a total of 34 items."It has now addressed or largely addressed 30 of the items," he said.The most recent action plan of 2021 on money laundering from FATF's regional affiliate — the Asia Pacific Group (APG) — largely focused on money laundering and had found serious deficiencies.In this new action plan, four out of the seven items now stood addressed or largely addressed, the report said.In October last year, FATF encouraged Pakistan to continue to make progress in addressing the one remaining CFT-related item as soon as possible by continuing to demonstrate that terror financing investigations and prosecutions target senior leaders and commanders of UN-designated terrorist groups.In response to additional deficiencies later identified in Pakistan's 2019 APG Mutual Evaluation Report in June 2021, Pakistan provided further high-level commitment to address these strategic deficiencies pursuant to a new action plan that primarily focuses on combating money laundering.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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