Pakistan sanctions Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Community to evade international monetary blacklisting | World Information

Islamabad: At a time when Afghan Taliban, america and the Ashraf Ghani authorities of Afghanistan are on the verge of initiating the intra-Afghan dialogue, Pakistan authorities has issued a statutory notification, ordering the imposition of sanctions on these Afghan Taliban leaders and teams, together with the Haqqani Community, who’re on the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC) sanction checklist.

Within the notification, the federal government has enforced instant steps together with belongings freeze, journey ban and arms embargo on the Afghan rebel group, the Haqqani Community.

Authorities sources confirmed that the step has been taken in compliance with the us sanctions in opposition to the group.

As per the federal government supply, Part 10 of the statutory notification aka SRO, defined the aim of issuance of the brand new SRO which maintained “in train of the powers conferred by Part 2 of the United Nation`s Safety Council Act 1948, the Federal Authorities is happy to order that the Decision 2255 (2015) be totally applied” in reference to the Taliban leaders and affiliated entities listed within the annexure connected to it.

The SRO holds significance because it has been issued after the assessment assembly on the progress made in opposition to terror financing and cash laundering by the Monetary Motion Activity Power (FATF). Pakistan has been engaged on the implementation of the 27-point motion plan, and the motion is critical if it needs to get off the gray checklist of the worldwide watchdog checklist.

Pakistan’s authorities has additionally handed legal guidelines from the higher and the decrease home (Senate and Nationwide Meeting) to satisfy the FATF necessities.

The SRO, issued on August 18, 2020, has additionally been issued consistent with the identical compliance with an intention to get Islamabad out of the FATF gray checklist and put it aside from being pushed into the blacklist, which can be disastrous for the cash-strapped economic system of the nation.

“The SRO issued by Pakistan on 18 August 2020, solely consolidates and paperwork the beforehand introduced SROs as a procedural measure and doesn’t replicate any change within the Sanctions Checklist of sanction measures,” stated Zahid Chaudhri, spokesperson of Pakistan`s Ministry of Overseas Affairs (MOFA).

“Upon any change by the Committee (UN Safety Council Taliban Sanctions Committee), all states together with Pakistan implement these Sanctions,” he added.

It’s pertinent to say right here {that a} comparable SRO was issued by Pakistan on Daesh and Al-Qaeda with comparable bans imposed on all people and entities related to the teams. And an identical order was issued to checklist Jamat-ud-Dawa (JUD), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and all teams and people together with Hafiz Saeed, within the nation`s terror checklist, seizing their belongings, financial institution accounts and imposing journey bans.