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The three men were found guilty of collecting funds for Saeed’s charity organizations, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat, which are alleged fronts for Lashkar-e-Taiba. read more

Pakistan’s foreign ministry quietly issued two statutory regulatory orders on August 18 to enforce UN Security Council sanctions against hundreds of terrorists, including operatives of LeT, JeM, al-Qaeda, Taliban, Haqqani Network and Islamic State. read more

Pakistan’s actions are clearly guided by the impending review of Islamabad’s anti-terror financing regime by the FATF later this year. read more

The decision was taken after formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council. read more

Abdullah Khan Dogar was the counsel of Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed for many years and defended him in Pakistani courts following the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people were killed. read more

It was rare for the US to have directly accused the Imran Khan government of not only looking the other way but also point that terrorists such as Masood Azhar and Sajjid Mir had been provided state protection. read more

Founded by Masood Azhar, JeM claimed responsibility for the Pulwama terrorist attack in February 2019, that led to significant escalation in tensions between the two nuclear power neighbors. read more

Pakistan authorities acknowledge the presence of only 19 terrorists who figure in the UNSC 1267 Sanctions List. For the rest, they have told the UNSC that they cannot locate them due to insufficient information. read more

The FATF is expected to issue the warning at the conclusion of its plenary meeting in Paris on February 21, said the people who declined to be identified. As expected, Pakistan will be retained in FATF’s “grey list”, in which it was placed in June 2018. read more

Pakistan, which has about 40 terror groups, had attempted to showcase the conviction of Jamaat-ud-Dawa emir Hafiz Saeed as a reflection of its commitment to act against terror. But it had to face hard questions about other global terrorists including Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Dawood Ibrahim who are sheltered by its establishment. read more

The International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG), a sub-group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), evaluated the performance of Pakistan during its ongoing meeting in Paris which would continue until February 21. read more

India has maintained that Pakistan extends regular support to terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen, whose prime target is India, and has urged FATF to take action against Islamabad. read more

With the US seen as overly dependent on Pakistan for swinging a deal with the Afghan Taliban, diplomats of other Western nations expect an easing of pressure from Washington on Islamabad. Pakistan is also not expected to be put on FATF’s “black list”, which would entail harsher sanctions, as such a move would be blocked by China, Malaysia and Turkey. read more

Noting that the verdict came just four days before a plenary meeting of FATF in Paris will assess action taken by Pakistan to counter terror financing, a person said that Saeed’s sentencing was “part of a long pending international obligation of Pakistan to put an end to the support for terrorism”. read more