NEW DELHI: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday urged the central government to push for Pakistan's re-inclusion in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. This appeal came 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.
The FATF grey list includes countries deemed to have higher risks of financial crimes, such as money laundering and terrorist financing. Pakistan was placed on this list in June 2018 and was removed in October 2022.
In a separate statement, Owaisi called on the United Nations to designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a terrorist organization. He argued that the group's listing by the United States alone 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 organization.
Union culture secretary Vivek Aggarwal was appointed vice president of FATF at the conclusion of the plenary meeting held at the agency's headquarters in Paris. He previously served as head of India's delegation at the international body. India has been an FATF member since 2010.
