Asaduddin Owaisi; Vivek Aggarwal
NEW DELHI: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday called on the Centre to push for Pakistan to be restored to the “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a day after senior bureaucrat Vivek Aggarwal was elected vice president of the global anti-money laundering body.“Vivek Agarwal is the first Indian to have been elected Vice President of FATF, what @narendramodi government must do is to bring back Pakistan in Grey List,” Owaisi posted on X. On its grey list, the FATF places countries considered at higher risk of financial crimes, including money laundering and terror financing.Pakistan was added to the list in June 2018 and removed in October 2022.Meanwhile, Owaisi further said the United Nations should designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a terrorist organisation, arguing that the group’s listing by the United States has “no real use.””UN listing is needed of TRF. Modi government should have & must have tried to list ISI also, we must remember the Red Fort suicide blast of November 2025,” the Hyderabad MP added, referring to Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence.Earlier, the United States designated TRF—described as a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy linked to the April 2025 Pahalgam attack—as a global terrorist organisation.Union culture secretary Vivek Aggarwal was appointed the vice president of FATF at the conclusion of the plenary meeting held at the agency’s headquarters in Paris. He is also a former head of India’s delegation at the international body.India has been an FATF member since 2010.(With PTI inputs)
