Pakistan on Monday objected to the recent remarks by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that the FATF can any time blacklist the neighbouring country, describing it as India's attempts to "politicise" the international money laundering watchdog's proceedings.
Pakistan was placed on the grey list by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in June last year and was given a plan of action to complete it by October 2019, or face the risk of being placed on the black list with Iran and North Korea.
Singh during the Defence Accounts Department Day event last week said that the FATF can anytime blacklist Pakistan for terror financing.
The Foreign Office (FO) in a statement said Singh's remarks "reinforces Pakistan's concerns, repeatedly highlighted to the FATF membership, about India's attempts to politicise the FATF proceedings to further its narrow, partisan objectives,"