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Pak to ban JuD if found involved in Mumbai attacks: Durrani
Islamabad, Dec 10 (PTI) Pakistan will ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and other organisations if there is evidence that they were involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, a top security official said Wednesday.
Mahmud Ali Durrani, Adviser to the Prime Minister on
National Security, said if evidence is found of the Jamaat
being involved in the attacks, it would be banned.
Durrani told Geo News channel that if any evidence
pointed to any other organisation during investigations, they
too would be banned.
His comments echoed remarks by Pakistan's UN Ambassador
Abdullah Hussain Haroon that the Jamaat could be banned and
its assets frozen on the request of the UN Security Council.
Hussain made the remarks after India asked the UN
Security Council to "proscribe the Pakistani group
Jamaat-ud-Dawah since it is a terrorist outfit and should be
proscribed under Security Council Resolution 1267".
Security Council Resolution 1267 imposed sanctions on
supporters of Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
Individuals and groups banned under the measure face travel
bans and asset freezes.
Speaking to reporters in Multan this afternoon, Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani too indicated that the government
believed the Jamaat is a front organisation for the LeT.
"The LeT is a banned group. If its members become part of
the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, what will be its status?" he asked.
He, however, said the recent crackdown on the Jamaat did
not come because of Indian pressure and the US had had
concerns about the group since 2002.
"The LeT was banned long ago. The main members of the LeT
became part of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah. The US thinks the LeT and
Jamaat-ud-Dawah are one and the same," he said.
The Jamaat was formed by LeT founder Maulana Masood Azhar
after the Lashker was banned by the Pakistan government in
2001.
Azhar and two other terrorists were freed by India in
exchange for the passengers of an Indian Airlines flight that
was hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999. PTI RHL
RKM
Mahmud Ali Durrani, Adviser to the Prime Minister on
National Security, said if evidence is found of the Jamaat
being involved in the attacks, it would be banned.
Durrani told Geo News channel that if any evidence
pointed to any other organisation during investigations, they
too would be banned.
His comments echoed remarks by Pakistan's UN Ambassador
Abdullah Hussain Haroon that the Jamaat could be banned and
its assets frozen on the request of the UN Security Council.
Hussain made the remarks after India asked the UN
Security Council to "proscribe the Pakistani group
Jamaat-ud-Dawah since it is a terrorist outfit and should be
proscribed under Security Council Resolution 1267".
Security Council Resolution 1267 imposed sanctions on
supporters of Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
Individuals and groups banned under the measure face travel
bans and asset freezes.
Speaking to reporters in Multan this afternoon, Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani too indicated that the government
believed the Jamaat is a front organisation for the LeT.
"The LeT is a banned group. If its members become part of
the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, what will be its status?" he asked.
He, however, said the recent crackdown on the Jamaat did
not come because of Indian pressure and the US had had
concerns about the group since 2002.
"The LeT was banned long ago. The main members of the LeT
became part of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah. The US thinks the LeT and
Jamaat-ud-Dawah are one and the same," he said.
The Jamaat was formed by LeT founder Maulana Masood Azhar
after the Lashker was banned by the Pakistan government in
2001.
Azhar and two other terrorists were freed by India in
exchange for the passengers of an Indian Airlines flight that
was hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999. PTI RHL
RKM
