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Pakistan on watchlist despite curbing anti-terror financing

Pakistani policemen stand guard outside central jail where an anti-terrorist court gave a verdict against suspects accused in a blasphemy lynching case in Haripur district on February 7, 2018. (AFP)

Javed Rana
Press TV, Islamabad

The Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based inter-governmental organization, has decided to put Pakistan on grey watch-list for failing to curb financing of militant groups. Islamabad says it has done enough to address international concerns by freezing bank accounts of militant-linked charity groups. But underneath it seems that the row is mostly related to Pakistan's relations with the US that have soured since the election of President Donald Trump. Press TV’s correspondent Javed Rana has more from Islamabad.


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