India Recognizes Pakistan’s Efforts To Curb India Specific Terror Groups

• 11 Jun 2019

Why is it in News?

As per official sources, New Delhi would soon recognize and accept the efforts taken by Pakistan to curb terror groups on its soil.

Relevance of the News: It is a significant confidence building measure between both the countries and their bilateral relations.

Actions taken by Pakistan:

• Last year in 2018, Pakistan was put on the “grey list” by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
• Since then Pakistani authorities had seized 771 seminaries — educational institutions run by the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its fronts, Jamaat-ud Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniyat, and the Jaish-e-Mohammad.
• It is for the first time since early 1990s that Pakistan has begun to take action against India-focussed terror groups and freeze their assets in Pakistan and PoK.
• The Asia Pacific Group of the FATF held a meeting in May 2019, and Pakistan was found to have taken inadequate action in 18 of 27 areas.