Pakistan on Saturday briefed the heads of diplomatic missions in Islamabad on the Pulwama attack, a day after India appraised the envoys of 25 countries and continued on Saturday its diplomatic offensive to isolate the neighbour. The multilateral groupings that India reached out to included the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. With the FATF set to begin its plenary meeting in Paris on Sunday, India is highlighting the Pulwama attack to firm up its case to blacklist Pakistan. Pakistan was grey-listed in June 2018 and given time till September 2019 to take a set of 27 steps to avoid the blacklisting. India’s high commissioner to Pakistan, Ajay Bisaria, briefed the foreign secretary on Saturday.

Source: The Telegraph February 16, 2019 21:45 UTC