Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Pakistan

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) admits that Pakistan made significant progress on FATF’s action plan but still decided to maintain Pakistan in the Grey List for additional four months period till February 2021 .

The PTI led Pakistani government  largely addressed 21 of the 27 action items indicated by the FATF and made credible progress in this regard.

Even though appreciating Pakistan’s paramount progress FATF still did not remove Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s name from its “Grey List”.

Is the perception that FATF is used for political motives by the influential countries of the world true?