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Over 30 JuD men under detention; 65 of its offices sealed
Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Dec 12 (PTI) At least 31 leaders and activists of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, including its founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, have been detained and 65 of its offices sealed as part of a crackdown launched by Pakistan on the LeT's front organisation after the UN declared it a terrorist group in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
JuD chief Saeed, who also founded the banned Lashkar-e-
Toiba, is among those detained under the Maintenance of Public
Order ordinance, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
He said the names of 11 top JuD leaders, including Saeed,
had been included in the Exit Control List, a document listing
persons barred from travelling out of Pakistan.
Police said Col (Retd) Nazir Ahmed, Hafiz Abdul Rehman
Makki and Zafar Iqbal, all close aides of Saeed, were among
those detained.
Media reports said dozens of JuD activists had also been
detained in Punjab province, cities like Quetta and Mansehra
and other places across Pakistan, but there was no official
word on this.
Special Superintendent of Police (Operations) Chaudhry
Shafiq Ahmad told state-run APP news agency that Saeed had
been detained at his house in Block 116-E, Johar Town in
Lahore for three months. A "heavy contingent of police (was)
posted outside his residence" last night, Ahmad said.
Superintendent of Police Rana Mansoor told reporters the
Interior Ministry had declared Saeed's residence a sub-jail.
The Pakistan government yesterday launched the clampdown
after a UN Security Council panel designated JuD a terrorist
organisation and placed four LeT leaders, including Saeed, on
a list of terrorists subject to sanctions like a travel ban
and asset freeze.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters that
the decision to crack down on the JuD was taken by President
Asif Ali Zardari after a series of meetings with officials of
the interior and foreign ministries.
The State Bank of Pakistan has ordered all banks to
freeze the assets and bank accounts of the JuD and four LeT
leaders designated as terrorists by the UN Security Council.
Jamiat-ul-Qadisia, the headquarters of JuD at Chowburji
Chowk in Lahore, was sealed. Eighteen other JuD offices across
Punjab province, including five in Sialkot, too were sealed.
JuD offices were also sealed Thursday in Islamabad,
Rawalpindi, Kot Addu, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar, Mansehra, Kohat
and Karachi. Police Friday sealed a JuD office at Badin in
Sindh province and raided the home of the group's provincial
chief Hafiz Mohammad Anwar.
In Quetta, police sealed the JuD office and detained four
activists. A camp opened in Ziarat by the group for victims of
the recent quake in Balochistan too was closed.
Attiqur Rehman Chohan, a spokesman for the JuD in North
West Frontier Province, told Dawn newspaper from an
unspecified place that the group had decided to close its
offices in Peshawar and other cities and suspended its
activities "for the time being".
Chohan said the JuD's leaders were in touch with the NWFP
government and major political parties and the ban on the
group would be raised in the national and provincial
assemblies.
A spokesman for the State Bank of Pakistan said the
central bank had frozen the bank accounts of the JuD, its
leaders and two sister organisations – Al-Rashid Trust and
Al-Akhtar Trust. PTI RHL
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Islamabad, Dec 12 (PTI) At least 31 leaders and activists of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, including its founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, have been detained and 65 of its offices sealed as part of a crackdown launched by Pakistan on the LeT's front organisation after the UN declared it a terrorist group in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
JuD chief Saeed, who also founded the banned Lashkar-e-
Toiba, is among those detained under the Maintenance of Public
Order ordinance, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
He said the names of 11 top JuD leaders, including Saeed,
had been included in the Exit Control List, a document listing
persons barred from travelling out of Pakistan.
Police said Col (Retd) Nazir Ahmed, Hafiz Abdul Rehman
Makki and Zafar Iqbal, all close aides of Saeed, were among
those detained.
Media reports said dozens of JuD activists had also been
detained in Punjab province, cities like Quetta and Mansehra
and other places across Pakistan, but there was no official
word on this.
Special Superintendent of Police (Operations) Chaudhry
Shafiq Ahmad told state-run APP news agency that Saeed had
been detained at his house in Block 116-E, Johar Town in
Lahore for three months. A "heavy contingent of police (was)
posted outside his residence" last night, Ahmad said.
Superintendent of Police Rana Mansoor told reporters the
Interior Ministry had declared Saeed's residence a sub-jail.
The Pakistan government yesterday launched the clampdown
after a UN Security Council panel designated JuD a terrorist
organisation and placed four LeT leaders, including Saeed, on
a list of terrorists subject to sanctions like a travel ban
and asset freeze.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters that
the decision to crack down on the JuD was taken by President
Asif Ali Zardari after a series of meetings with officials of
the interior and foreign ministries.
The State Bank of Pakistan has ordered all banks to
freeze the assets and bank accounts of the JuD and four LeT
leaders designated as terrorists by the UN Security Council.
Jamiat-ul-Qadisia, the headquarters of JuD at Chowburji
Chowk in Lahore, was sealed. Eighteen other JuD offices across
Punjab province, including five in Sialkot, too were sealed.
JuD offices were also sealed Thursday in Islamabad,
Rawalpindi, Kot Addu, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar, Mansehra, Kohat
and Karachi. Police Friday sealed a JuD office at Badin in
Sindh province and raided the home of the group's provincial
chief Hafiz Mohammad Anwar.
In Quetta, police sealed the JuD office and detained four
activists. A camp opened in Ziarat by the group for victims of
the recent quake in Balochistan too was closed.
Attiqur Rehman Chohan, a spokesman for the JuD in North
West Frontier Province, told Dawn newspaper from an
unspecified place that the group had decided to close its
offices in Peshawar and other cities and suspended its
activities "for the time being".
Chohan said the JuD's leaders were in touch with the NWFP
government and major political parties and the ban on the
group would be raised in the national and provincial
assemblies.
A spokesman for the State Bank of Pakistan said the
central bank had frozen the bank accounts of the JuD, its
leaders and two sister organisations – Al-Rashid Trust and
Al-Akhtar Trust. PTI RHL
NIK
