ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Safety Council’s sanctions monitoring staff will go to Islamabad on a two-day journey beginning subsequent Thursday for an evaluation of Pakistan’s compliance with the world physique’s sanctions regime.
“The monitoring group of the united states 1267 Sanctions Committee can be right here on Jan 25 and 26,” a senior official advised Daybreak.
The go to is happening amid growing pressure on Pakistan from the USA and India with respect to the alleged insufficient implementation of the sanctions on Hafiz Saeed and entities linked to him.
Nevertheless, Pakistani officers, insist that the journey is a routine go to.
Islamabad’s compliance to be assessed
State Division spokesperson Heather Nauert had at a briefing on Friday stated that the US had clearly conveyed its considerations to Pakistan on Hafiz Saeed and referred to as for his prosecution “to the fullest extent of the regulation”. She had recalled that Saeed’s identify was on the UN listing of designated terrorists.
The US response had come after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi stated in a tv interview that, “there isn’t a case towards Hafiz Saeed sahib in Pakistan. If there was a case, motion can be taken. This is a matter that involves the fore repeatedly however there isn’t any fact in it”.
The phrases of reference of the monitoring group for Pakistan go to are usually not publicly recognized, however as per its basic mandate it assists the 1267 Committee in maintaining a tally of the freezing of the monetary belongings of listed individuals and entities and checking provision of coaching and different materials to them and their journey. The group intimates situations of non-compliance to the committee via its reviews. On the similar time it additionally advises and assists member states on implementation of the regime.
A Pakistani official gave a constructive spin to the journey saying it will give a chance to share the steps taken by the federal government to implement the sanctions regime.
Pakistan’s mission on the UN had in final February submitted an implementation report back to the committee detailing the journey restrictions, the arms embargo, the measures to stop the illicit export of crude oil, and freezing of funds and different monetary belongings or financial assets of people and entities issued beneath the united states counterterrorism resolutions.
The federal government has taken quite a lot of steps forward of the monitoring group’s go to. In a single occasion, Safety and Change Fee of Pakistan barred corporations from making donations to the entities and people listed beneath the united states’s sanctions Committee’s consolidated record.
PM Abbasi additionally just lately chaired a gathering on anti-cash laundering measures.
Pakistan has remained underneath the FATF (Monetary Motion Activity Drive) scanner over allegations by the US and India about the united states sanctions not being absolutely carried out.
Revealed in Daybreak, January twenty first, 2018
