<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">US State Department says Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will take a final decision on Pakistan and other countries for not doing enough on terror financing during its crucial meeting in Paris tomorrow. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters that Pakistan is one of those countries that FATF is taking a close look at, and they will be making an announcement sometime soon. </span></div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>She was responding to a question on a tweet from Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja M Asif, that there was no consensus at the FATF meeting to place Pakistan in the greylist which is a watch-list of countries that need to do more in relation to anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The FATF is an international policy-making and standard-setting body dedicated to combating money laundering and terrorist financing. She said, at the FATF, a lot of countries have come together and they look at various nations that are not doing enough to crack down on terror financing, counterterrorism and the like. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>She said America's concerns with regard to Pakistan has been very clear. Nauert said, American concerns about terror financing are how many times have Washington talked about the person whom Pakistan let out of house arrest, who was responsible for the Mumbai attacks back in 2008 that killed so many people, including Americans too. In his tweet, Pakistani Foreign Minister said that the country has been given three-month reprieve over the US-led motion in FATF.</div>
News On AIR | February 21, 2018 11:57 AM
FATF to decide on Pakistan on terror financing in crucial meeting in Paris