FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan receives Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on his arrival in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 13, 2020. Prime Minister Office Handout via REUTERS
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he would help Pakistan stay off a terrorism financing blacklist at a meeting of a global finance watchdog, a move he suggested would counter "political pressure" from Islamabad's critics.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which tackles money laundering, told Islamabad late last year that it could face blacklisting if it continued to apply inadequate controls over terrorism financing.
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