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FATF evaluations

India’s progress in combating illicit finance was brought into focus on September 18, 2024, with the release of the Mutual Evaluation Report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This…

Confessional box

“In that shame, still live my sorrow’s rage” — Shakespeare TELEVISION’S prime is over. News channels that is. But in Pakistan, like many other truths, an artificial ecosystem keeps it…

The investigative approach

THE FATF has placed Pakistan on its ‘increased monitoring list’, also known as the ‘grey list’, multiple times since 2008. Those countries whose names appear on this list commit to…

An attempt at lucidity

THERE was a time when means of information were few and far between. Specifically, more or less sanitised newspapers in the morning and then the evening/dawn BBC Urdu broadcasts, bringing some real…

Old wine in new bottles

The incumbent government, as all earlier ones, is jubilant over securing a staff-level agreement with International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 12, 2024—once approved by Executive Board of IMF, it…