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FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE (FATF) & PAKISTAN’S GREY LIST ISSUE

FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE (FATF) & PAKISTAN’S GREY LIST ISSUE Introduction The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intra-governmental organization that was founded after the initiative of the Group of Seven countries G-7, back in 1989, for combating money laundering in the world. Basically, FATF is a “Policy-Making Body” that mainly regulates finance-related reforms to stop money laundering at the world level.     In 2001, FATF’s role was extended against financing terrorist organizations, particularly after the so-called incident of 11 th September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York America. Later on, FATF emerged as one of the most powerful and influential organizations in the world, particularly in the context of managing and regulating the economies of different countries including Iran & Afghanistan.      Initially, FATF had a total of 16 member countries but today, it has 39 permanent member countries including USA ...

KASHMIR ISSUE; WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?

Kashmir Issue and the Way Forward                                   Overview: Whether it was an inability and incapability of the Britishers or intentional negligence towards proper demarcation of territorial boundaries before leaving the Indian Sub-continent or even pressure on Lord Mount Batten built by the Congress party’s leadership particularly Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, however, it has left everlasting effects and consequences in terms of loss of innocent human lives, violence, hatred, military escalations, and socio-economic tensions in the fate of the people of South Asia since 1947 to till date.  One of the greatest territorial issues and tensions which I am going to highlight through this article blog is the Kashmir issue which has been remaining the bone of contention between Pakistan and India.  The United Kingdom, currently known as England (Great Britain) which is one of th...

The Art of Effective Essay Writing

Essay Writing Skills: The Art of Effective Essay Writing  What is an Essay? Word “ essay ” has been originated from the French language which means “ trial ” or an “ attempt ”. It has no definite, range, limit, style, or explanation due to its wide range of variety in its context. However, an essayist named Aldous Huxley noted down that essay is a literary device that is used to express almost everything and about almost anything. Hence essay is generally considered a short piece of writing to a long piece of systematic discourse.  Similarly, there are two distinct forms of essay which are known as formal (academic) and non-formal (non-academic) essays. Academic essays are the most significant form of testing the ability of students for academic assessment and admission purposes. Whereas, all sorts of major testing examinations including IELTS , TOEFL, SAT, GAT, CAT, etc., require essay writing to judge the analytical and academic performance of the students.  On the ot...

NOT EVERY DREAM COMES TRUE!

  Synopsis: Broadly speaking, life is not a name of merely the biological and physical processes rather it is a complex process of feelings, emotions, sentiments, desires, wishes, habits, and actions. Therefore, we can say that life is the name of biological, physical, psychological, and spiritual processes. All of these processes are very crucial which as a whole make human life a diverse complexity. Similarly, we have different meanings, approaches, understanding, and desires towards life.  Although we see life through different lenses and we all have unique but varying life approaches yet there are so many things that are found as common among human beings. Every normal human being has sudden dreams in his/her and in order to pursue the dreams we sometimes act mad and eventually make our life miserable by losing our hopes.  Similarly, the priorities of life correlate us with others and we sometimes get trapped by the sudden glittering of life without realizing our po...

Dilema of Democracy & Political Leadership Crisis in Pakistan

Dilemma of Democracy & Political Leadership Crisis in Pakistan Overview Since mid 20th century,  Democracy is being considered the most accomplished process and a form of government where only people’s representatives have the right and authority to run the affairs of the state including forming certain constitutional rules and regulations.  Through democracy, people choose their representatives following a well-defined system of voting. The elected representatives then govern the affairs of the state on behalf of their people for a certain period of time (usually 4 to 5 years).  These representatives actually ensure the authority and rule of law for their people in the larger interests of any nation, state, or country. On the other hand, they are also held accountable and responsible for their actions and exercising of the powers within certain limitations as defined in the constitution or legislated through parliament.  Although Pakistan is a pure democratic...