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Pakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office

In June 2018 FATF placed Pakistan on its grey list for strategic AML/CFT deficiencies. Khan took office weeks later and inherited the action plan; his governments then passed some terror-finance statutes. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Banking-System Stability.

Pakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office

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In June 2018 FATF placed Pakistan on its grey list for strategic AML/CFT deficiencies. Khan took office weeks later and inherited the action plan; his governments then passed some terror-finance statutes. The Fact stored here is the completed grey-listing that framed his term, plus his partial legislative response, not the October 2022 exit that occurred under Shehbaz.

Context

FATF plenaries sit abroad. Finance and interior draft bills. He did not vote in Paris. Sharing with the army’s counter-terror file is not a reason to drop the political yes on later bills.

The 2022 FATF exit is on Shehbaz’s calendar. IMF 2019 is a neighbouring finance row.

Pakistan’s prime minister is elected by the National Assembly and chairs the cabinet. He does not write IMF Executive Board minutes, Indian statutes, army operational orders, NAB judgments, or PBS CPI methodology. A maiden speech is not a Finance Act. A rally is not a gazette. A diplomatic cable is not a completed foreign coup. A tweet is not a statute.

Why it matters

The path is banking-system stability and sanctions-adjacent finance: a completed grey-listing raises correspondent-banking friction through his term.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Imran Khan

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.3 · verified

    FATF listed. He inherited and partly legislated. Shehbaz later saw the exit. Banks paid the friction.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactPakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office
    2. weakensDriverBanking-System Stability

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 27 June 2018 · verified

    Grey-listing raises correspondent-banking friction through the premiership.

    1. FactPakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office
    2. strengthensDriverSanctions Pressure
    3. strengthensIndicators (4)Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
    Mixed path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 27 June 2018 · verified

    A completed FATF grey-list is a targeted financial-integrity pressure instrument.

    All indicators on this path (4)

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — FATF puts Pakistan on grey listReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.FATF — Pakistan grey-list public statement, June 2018Financial Action Task Force · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Financial Action Task Force carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a June 2018 FATF grey-listing just before his oath, independently reported, which his term then had to work.

Not established: that he authored the listing, or that he personally achieved the 2022 exit.

He inherited and partly legislated. Shehbaz later saw the exit. Banks paid the friction.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office, not a later speech about Pakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to FATF listed. He inherited and partly legislated. Shehbaz later saw the exit. Banks paid the friction. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorImran Khan
  2. contributed toFactPakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Banking-System Stability

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Factrail. (2026). Pakistan is placed on the FATF grey list as Khan prepares to take office. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-fatf-grey-2018

https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-fatf-grey-2018

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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