Sir: Pakistan had a narrow escape from grey list from 2012 to 2015 after enacting some anti-money-laundering laws. It is a bitter truth that USA was primum mobile of resolutions 1267 and 1373. But, they happen to be binding on all UN members. They were passed under Chapter VII of UN Charter (Acts of Aggression). USA shrugged off all criticism of the legislation. History tells cornering any country, for instance Germany before the Great War, with blinker-eyed coercive legislation was counter-productive. For a safer world, the USA should expedite review of ‘greying’ procedure in light of muffled criticism: (a) Oxford University public law professor Stefan Talmon argued ‘this resolution is an example of the United Nations Security Council veering into legislating law in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks when its role is to apply and interpret international law’. (b) Canadian Federal Court Judge Russel Zinn’s judgement about Abousfian Abdelrazik (who was listed in 2006). It stressed the accuser could not be the judge as under resolution 1267. The resolution was untenable under the principles of international human rights and natural justice. There is no definition of terrorism.(c) Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg (2008) suggestion that ‘arbitrary procedures for terrorist black-listing must now be changed’. MOHAMMAD ASAD MALICK Rawalpindi Published in Daily Times, February 20th 2018.