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A |     Islamabad, Oct 21 (UNI) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday removed Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”, also known as the “grey list”.

Addressing the press conference at the conclusion of the its plenary, President Raja Kumar noted that Pakistan had been on the grey list since 2018.

“It has two concurrent action plans. After a lot of work by Pakistan authorities, they have largely addressed all of the action plan items,” he said.

He stated that the task force had conducted an onsite visit at the end of August. The onsite team verified that there is a high-level of commitment from the Pakistani leadership, sustainability of reforms and commitment to make improvements in the future, he said.

“As a result of these action plans, Pakistan has made significant improvements to strengthen the effectiveness of this framework for combatting terrorism financing.”

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was quick to congratulate the country on the development moments before the FATF press conference began, according to Dawn reports.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan’s exiting the FATF grey list is a “vindication of our determined and sustained efforts over the years”, according to reports.

He congratulated the civil and military leadership as well as all institutions whose hard work led to today’s success. “Aap sab ko bohat bohat Mubarak,” the premier said, following up with a text smiley.

In a follow-up tweet, PM Shehbaz particularly commended the role and efforts of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and their teams and all political parties for putting up a united front to get Pakistan out of the grey list.

Pakistan was included among jurisdictions under increased monitoring list in June 2018 for deficiencies in its legal, financial, regulatory, investigations, prosecution, judicial and non-government sector to fight money laundering and combat terror financing considered serious threat to global financial system.

Islamabad made high-level political commitments to address these deficiencies under a 27-point action plan. But later the number of action points was enhanced to 34.

The country had since been vigorously working with FATF and its affiliates to strengthen its legal and financial systems against money laundering and terror financing to meet international standards in line with 40-recommendations of the FATF.

A 15-member joint delegation of the FATF and its Sydney-based regional affiliate — Asia Pacific Group — paid an onsite visit to Pakistan from Aug 29 to Sept 2 to verify the country’s compliance with the 34-point action plan committed with the FATF.

The authorities that had kept the countrywide visit of the delegation low profile later termed it “a smooth and successful visit”.

The delegation had detailed discussions with relevant agencies pursuant to the authorisation of onsite Visit by FATF Plenary in June 2022.

According to the Foreign Office, the focus of the visit was to validate on ground Pakistan’s high-level commitment and sustainability of reforms in AML/CFT regime and [it] looked forward to logical conclusion to the evaluation process.

Pakistan believed that as a result of strenuous and consistent efforts over the past four years, it has not only achieved a high degree of technical compliance with FATF standards but also ensured high level of effectiveness through implementation of two comprehensive FATF action plans.

In June this year, FATF had found Pakistan “compliant or largely compliant” on all the 34 points and had decided to field an onsite mission to verify it on ground before formally announcing the country’s exit from the grey list that finally took place in August and September.

In terms of technical compliance with FATF standards, Pakistan has been rated by APG as “compliant or largely compliant” in 38 out of 40 FATF recommendations in August this year, which placed the country among the top compliant countries in the world.

UNI GNK。    国庆庆典开始之际突然下起大雨，一度令现场观众猝不及防。不过，受访观众表示，大雨丝毫没有浇熄他们的热情，依旧兴致勃勃地在现场观看庆典，庆祝我国59岁生日。50岁公务员洪美莉接受《8视界新闻网》访问时透露，这是她第一次到现场观看国庆庆典，没想到就遇上了“难得一遇”的大雨情况。她坦言，当时突降大雨，虽然她与朋友都心想情况“糟糕”，但也都非常镇定地穿上雨衣，做好防雨措施。“我就觉得糟糕了，（竟然）下雨，可是我们又相信说雨一定会停的。没有减少（我们的热情），你看雨（最终）停了。”一家六口一起到场看庆典的39岁公务员周女士则透露，虽然一度天公不作美，但他们仍兴致勃勃地观看表演，丝毫没有受到影响。我国1966年和1968年的国庆庆典也曾下大雨，当时所有步操队伍丝毫不畏惧风雨，仍冒雨前进，彰显了爱国情怀。

B | 庆典表演谈及包容多元性 观众：很感人 今年的国庆庆典表演也赢得一片好评，一些观众就在《8视界新闻网》的YouTube直播评论区表示，庆典“比巴黎奥运好看多了”。

C | 表演环节第四幕和第五幕分别谈及包容社会多元性，并且相互扶持，通过激动人心和家喻户晓的歌曲，来致敬我国文化多样性，同时展示普通百姓如何不遗余力地提升社会。洪美莉认为，这些表演令她非常感动，因为以往国庆庆典主要谈及保卫国家的重要性，但今年却谈到了社会包容性，非常特别。“我觉得很不错，我们社会感觉有在进步。

D | ”58岁退休人士黄慧敏也说，她认为今年的国庆庆典与往年有所不同，因为谈到如何将每一个群体的人都融入在一起。59岁的李小平在8月9日出生，只要有机会就会到现场观看国庆庆典。她同样指出，今年演出环节谈到了对于特需人士的包容性，也请来了特需表演者演出，令她印象深刻。“其实他们跟我们一样，我们每个人都有一些不一样，所以我们需要去推广同理心，以及去接纳每个人。

E | ”李小平（左）和朋友黄慧敏（右）一起到场观看国庆庆典。（图：叶衍娴）一家四口一同到场的36岁李国隆则表示，这是他与太太第一次带两名儿子来看国庆，感觉非常的不一样。“一个家庭一起看国庆，更让我感受到‘家’的感觉，更让我想要去保护这个国家。

F | ”洪美莉（左）与朋友到场观看国庆庆典。

G | （图：叶衍娴）。

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