Pakistan’s Shields Suddenly Step Aside, Placing It on Terrorism Listing
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Pakistan’s Shields Suddenly Step Aside, Placing It on Terrorism Listing
But the recent gray-listing is explicitly focused on two groups
that the United States says are linked to terrorism against India The groups, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniyat — suspected of being fronts for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks — operated openly until the Pakistani government officially outlawed them in February, barely a week before the international community met to determine whether to list Islamabad.
Pakistani officials say China dropped its objection to Islamabad’s listing last week
as Beijing lobbied for the vice chairmanship of the Financial Action Task Force.
And other officials pointed out that Pakistani officials say
that since they outlawed the two groups last month, they have seized their ambulances, schools and other assets.
As the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure over the last year, two camps have become apparent within Pakistan: those urging
that Islamabad sever ties with militant groups and repair relations with Washington, and those who say that the alliance with China is enough to weather a fallout with the West.
"The international community has consistently expressed its longstanding concerns about ongoing deficiencies in Pakistan’s implementation of its anti-money laundering and counterterrorism finance regime."
That two of Pakistan’s strongest allies could join, or at least accept, American efforts to isolate the country has roiled the government in Islamabad and the military.
But the recent gray-listing is explicitly focused on two groups
that the United States says are linked to terrorism against India The groups, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniyat — suspected of being fronts for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks — operated openly until the Pakistani government officially outlawed them in February, barely a week before the international community met to determine whether to list Islamabad.
Pakistani officials say China dropped its objection to Islamabad’s listing last week
as Beijing lobbied for the vice chairmanship of the Financial Action Task Force.
And other officials pointed out that Pakistani officials say
that since they outlawed the two groups last month, they have seized their ambulances, schools and other assets.
As the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure over the last year, two camps have become apparent within Pakistan: those urging
that Islamabad sever ties with militant groups and repair relations with Washington, and those who say that the alliance with China is enough to weather a fallout with the West.
"The international community has consistently expressed its longstanding concerns about ongoing deficiencies in Pakistan’s implementation of its anti-money laundering and counterterrorism finance regime."
That two of Pakistan’s strongest allies could join, or at least accept, American efforts to isolate the country has roiled the government in Islamabad and the military.