Agencies
Pakistan is drifting towards international isolation mainly due to its policy of using groups designated by the global community as terrorist outfits as instruments of foreign policy, the media in Islamabad warned on 25 February, days after a global watchdog on terrorism financing reportedly placed Islamabad on its watch-list.
The world, which includes our brotherly friends (China and Saudi Arabia) whom the foreign minister (Khawaja Asif) thanked in a prematurely triumphant tweet on 20 February, is not impressed with what they see as this country’s continued intransigence.
The Dawn
Now that the news from the just-concluded round of meetings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held in Paris has been digested, it is important to focus on the fact that both China and Saudi Arabia abandoned Pakistan during the proceedings, opening the way for the motion advanced by the United States to a grey list the country's financial system, it said. |
