Pakistan to stay on FATF's grey list for terror financing

The Financial Action Task Force or the FATF, the world’s top anti-terrorism monitoring group, on Friday voted to keep Pakistan on a grey list for the Imran Khan government’s failure to fully comply with a 27-point action plan handed to it earlier.

The FATF said that not only have more than 4,000 terrorists gone missing from Pakistani government's records but the country has also taken in India's most wanted terrorists, Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed.

The latest decision comes as a huge setback for Imran Khan who had made efforts in the run-up to the virtual meeting of the FATF plenary to get his country off-the-hook. It could also mean that Pakistan will remain on the grey list for a minimum of six months till its performance can be reviewed.