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| Saudi money will be scrutinised: FO |
| 2015-02-12 |
| [DAWN] Couched in diplomatically-reserved language, the Foreign Office told Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Tuesday that money being sent from the kingdom to Pakistain through informal channels would face scrutiny. "Funding by private individuals and organizations to private entities through informal channels... is being brought under tighter scrutiny in the National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism, to choke off any possibility of financing for Lions of Islam and terrorist organizations," read a Foreign Office rejoinder to a Saudi embassy statement claiming that the FO had, in the past, cleared its financing of mosques, seminaries and charity organizations. Though the FO was responding to a Saudi embassy statement, it attempted to avoid offending the Saudis by noting that donations coming through informal channels would be examined "regardless of the source and country". |
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