Even as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) assesses Islamabad’s compliance with an action plan against terrorist financing, India on Thursday accused Pakistan of continuing to protect terrorist groups and of failing to act against UN-designated terrorists as the head of Jaish-e-Mohammed. Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim. Foreign Ministry spokesman …
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WASHINGTON: Despite high-level diplomacy, hiring a major lobbying firm and offering its influence with the Taliban to the United States to reduce violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan will not be able to escape the gray list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), said Mariam Solaimankhail, member of Afghanistan parliament. The …
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SRINAGAR: president of the National Conference Farooq Abdullah appeared before the direction of execution on Wednesday, for the second time this week, for questioning in connection with a money laundering investigation in an alleged multi-crore scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). The 82-year-old former Chief Minister of …
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NEW DELHI: The Direction of execution (ED) filed a charge sheet on Saturday in a Delhi court against the former councilor of the AAP Tahir hussain in a money laundering case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. The Judge of Additional Sessions Amitabh Rawat learned of the …
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Senior Official of the Administrative Service of India, M Sivasankar, who was secretary to Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, applied for advance bond from the Kerala High Court on Wednesday after being summoned by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) once more in relation to the gold smuggling case. He was …
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NEW DELHI: Noting the fact that Pakistan has improved its overall compliance in only two of the 40 FATF recommendations to curb the financing of terrorism and money laundering, a regional affiliate of the financial watchdog has kept the country on its “Enhanced Watch” list, according to Pakistani media reports. …
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Just over a week before a crucial meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a key regional affiliate of the multilateral watchdog has concluded that Pakistan has complied with only two of 40 recommendations to counter the financing of terrorism and money laundering. The Australia-based Asia Pacific Group (APG) …
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LAHORE: leader of the opposition of Pakistan and president of the PML-N Shahbaz sharif was arrested on Monday after the Lahore High Court rejected his statement of bail at Rs 7 billion ($ 41.9 million) money laundering case. Shahbaz, the younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was arrested …
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NEW DELHI: A guarantee that India will use its vaccine production and distribution capacity for the benefit of the whole world, a strong tone for UN reforms, and a subtle message to China: that India’s friendship with any country will not it is directed to a third country. formed the …
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Public sector banks (PSB) reported fraud worth more than Rs 19,964 crore in a total of 2,867 cases during the April-June quarter of the current fiscal year, according to a response to an RTI inquiry. The nation’s largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), recorded the highest number of fraud …
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