AgNoStiC MuSliM
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He's dead, it matters naught.For FATF that matters a lot.
The main issue with the FATF is strengthening money laundering laws, investigations, prosecutions and convictions, and that goes to not just terrorism, but corruption as well, and is going to be an uphill task because of so many decades of corrupt politicians and government employees that have laundered money obtained through illegal means.
When I was still in college in the US, one of my Pakistani friends (son of a customs officer in Pakistan) bought a brand new Corvette and BMW X5 SUV. He lived in luxury apartments decked out with leather couches and every electronic goody you could think off and had an account opened in his name in the US that had $700,000 USD in it (he was bragging about it once and showed me his ATM receipt when we were driving around in his Corvette and he stopped at an ATM to withdraw cash).
His dad had a beautiful house in Defence, Lahore (those who know the neighborhood will understand how much that costs).
How a Customs officer manages all that, well, we all know, but these are the entrenched interests that will fight tooth and nail against FATF recommendations, not because of any desire to 'support terrorism', but because the biggest beneficiaries of Pakistan's weak laws on money laundering are the bureaucrats and government servants in various departments.