The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has withdrawn several names from its terrorist blacklist.

A fax issued to banks, insurers and various industry associations by Julie Dickson, Assistant Superintendent Regulation Sector at OSFI, removes several firms from the list, which is subject to the United Nations Suppression of Terrorism Regulations.

This letter advises that the Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations removed the names from the list, and as a result these names are also removed from the names of listed persons subject to the UN Suppression of Terrorism Regulations.

Getting a reprieve are: Da Afghanistan Bank (a.k.a. Bank of Afghanistan; a.k.a. Central Bank of Afghanistan; a.k.a.The Afghan State Bank); Ibni Sina Wat; Ariana Afghan Airlines (formerly known as Bakhtar Afghan Airlines), and accounts of Ariana Afghan Airlines in Citibank and Punjab National Bank, New Delhi.