Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari on Tuesday called for a parliamentary probe into "criminal negligence" of past governments and bureaucrats for not taking steps to make Pakistan a member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
During today's National Assembly sitting, she told the parliament that the financial watchdog was established by the G-7 countries in 1989 to act against money laundering.
"India became its (FATF) member in 1998 after the constitution of Framework of Monitoring Unit. Since then, India is creating problems for us every now and then," she said.
"Parliament should conduct an investigation against specific members of bureaucracy, foreign ministers and institutional heads [of previous governments] for not applying for the membership of FATF," she said.
She alleged that previous governments did not apply for FATF membership because it would have "exposed their money laundering and corruption".
"If we were a part of FATF, we would not have been facing difficulties," she said. Pakistan was placed on watchdog's so-called grey list in June last year for not complying with international standards on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML-CFT). Last week, it narrowly avoided being placed on FATF's blacklist but only until October.
The international media, while reporting the FATF decision, had noted that "India wants Pakistan blacklisted, which would likely result in sanctions".
India is currently a co-chair of the joint group of FATF and the Asia Pacific Group (APG), which deals with Pakistan.
During her speech in the Lower House today, Mazari also asked for an investigation into non-registration of a bilateral agreement between Pakistan and India, signed in 2008 in United Nations regarding not giving consular access to spies arrested in each others countries.
She was of the view that if the agreement would have been registered in UN, International Court of Justice would not have been able to entertain the Indian case about consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
The minister said that as per the international laws, bilateral agreements signed between two countries needed to be registered with the UN in order to be recognised by international institutions.
'Mazaaq-i-ma'eeshat' comment was given in light of current situation