Put Back on Terror-Financing Watch List, Pakistan Vows to Improve

Put Back on Terror-Financing Watch List, Pakistan Vows to Improve
Paramilitary soldiers walk past the Parliament building during a joint sitting of the parliament in Islamabad April 10, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
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ISLAMABAD—Placed back on a terror financing watch list this week, Pakistan vowed on Saturday to tighten regulations and follow an action plan to curb money laundering and terror financing.

Pakistani officials attending a meeting in Paris had tried in vain to persuade the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to keep Pakistan off a list of nations with inadequate controls to prevent terror financing and money laundering.