Mumbai attack mastermind’s outfit, designated Global Terrorist by the US, removed from list of banned outfits
Even after Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed is designated as Global Terrorist by the US, the Pakistan government has removed the ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), both declared terror outfits. This will adversely affect the relationship between the two countries.
The Imran Khan-led government in Pakistan, even after knowing that the ordinance that proscribed them as banned organisation under a UN resolution has lapsed, has not bothered to extend it.
Earlier, the Pakistan government had banned companies and individuals from making donations to JuD, FIF, and other organisations on the UN Security Council sanctions list.
The JuD is the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. It has been declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in June 2014. The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the US, since 2012, has offered a $10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice.
In February this year, former president Mamnoon Hussain promulgated an ordinance amending the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 to declare JuD and FIF as proscribed groups.
In Pakistan, on Thursday a plea was filed by Saeed and his counsel before Islamabad High Court (IHC) stating that the presidential ordinance had lapsed and it had never been extended. They had challenged the ordinance under which his organisations had been banned for being on the watch list of the United Nations Security Council.
The security agency stated that this will definitely affect terror funding cases in India as NIA has already nabbed two people associated with FIF. Probing terror funding case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) stumbled upon a conspiracy Saeed is using to pump in money to build a cadre base in India.
“FIF has started providing financial assistance to poor families during the marriage of girl child and building houses. They are building cadre eventually to recruit vulnerable youth,” said a senior officer in the agency.
TIES TO AFFECT
- With Pakistan lifting the ban, it adversely affects and derails the dialogue process between India and Pakistan.
- The US has offered $10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice.
With inputs from agencies
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