[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Monday tasked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to track all suspicious and illegal transactions and put an end to the financing of terrorist networks.Nisar issued the directive while chairing a high level meeting to discuss FIA's targets for 2015.
The FIA was directed to work in collaboration with financial monitoring unit (FMU) of Ministry of Finance and launch an immediate crackdown against Hawala/Hundi under the recently formulated National Action Plan (NAP) on counter terrorism.
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The FIA officials informed the participants of the meeting that 18 cases of Hawala/Hundi have been detected in which 24 accused were locked away
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and an amount of Rs71.5 million was recovered since the formulation of NAP.
"As part of financial monitoring mechanism of the FIA, 3 cases of suspicious transaction and 5 cases of anti-money laundering were detected in which 8 accused were arrested," the official added.
"20 persons were arrested and spurious drugs amounting to tens of thousands of rupees were confiscated in 27 raids since January 2014," the FIA officials said.