The Pakistan government might seize control of charities and financial assets linked to the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and the chief Jamaat-ud-Dawah Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai terror attack, according to officials and documents reviewed by news agency Reuters.
According to , the Pakistani government detailed its plans in a secret order to various provincial and federal government departments on December 19. Three officials who attended one of several high-level meeting discussing the crackdown told the news agency.
Marked 바카라secret바카라, a document from the finance ministry directed law enforcement and governments in Pakistan바카라s five provinces to submit an action plan by December 28 for a 바카라takeover바카라 of Saeed바카라s two charities, Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), claims the Reuters report.
The report comes days after Palestine recalled its envoy to Pakistan for sharing the stage with Saeed, with President Mahmoud Abbas directly intervening to order the recall after India strongly protested the envoy바카라s action as 바카라unacceptable바카라.
India had strongly conveyed to Palestine that the presence of its ambassador to Pakistan at the event of Saeed, also a UN-designated terrorist, is "unacceptable".
Recently, Saeed opened the first office of the Milli Muslim League (MML) in Lahore, days after the Pakistan government said the group would breed violence and extremism in politics while opposing a plea seeking its registration as a political party.
Saeed has confirmed that his organisation JuD would contest the 2018 general elections under the banner of the MML.
The MML is the offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and JuD, according to the government. The MML had challenged the Election Commission's order in October that had declined its registration as a political party.
The United States has labelled JuD and FIF 바카라terrorist fronts바카라 for Lashkar-e-Taiba (바카라Army of the Pure바카라 or LeT), a group Saeed founded in 1987 and which Washington and India blame for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal, who co-chaired one of the meetings on the plan, told Reuters that he had ordered authorities 바카라to choke the fundraising of all proscribed outfits in Pakistan바카라.
He added that Pakistan wasn바카라t taking action under US pressure. 바카라We바카라re not pleasing anyone. We바카라re working as a responsible nation to fulfill our obligations to our people and the international community.바카라
If the authorities take actions as directed, it would mark the first time Pakistan has made a major move against Saeed바카라s network, which includes 300 seminaries and schools, hospitals, a publishing house and ambulance services.
(With PTI inputs)
