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US urges Pakistan to enact law banning radical groups
[DAWN] Hours before members of religious organizations spread across country to protest a Supreme Court decision to free Aasia Bibi, the United States urged Pakistain to immediately enact legislation that formally proscribes radical religious groups.The US suggestion followed a decision announced last week for ending a ban on two radical religious organizations, Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniyat ...the current false nose and mustache of Jamaat ud-Dawa, which was the false nose and mustache of Lashkar e-Taiba... Foundation (FIF). The United States has designated both as terrorist groups. The Pak media reported that the two outfits temporarily came off the list of banned outfits in Pakistain because the ordinance that proscribed them under a UN resolution had lapsed. The new Pak government is working on a proposal to extend the ban. The development underscores the importance of Pakistain "urgently enacting legislation that formally proscribes" both JuD and FIF, a spokesperson for the US State Department told news hounds in Washington. "The expiration of the ban on JuD and FIF runs counter to Pakistain’s commitment to work with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to address weaknesses in its counter-terrorism financing regime," said the US official. "As we have said before, the United States is deeply concerned that this development will jeopardise Pakistain’s ability to meet its commitments under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 to freeze and prevent the raising and moving of funds belonging to or associated with UN-designated terrorist groups," the spokesperson said. In February 2018, former president Mamnoon Hussain signed an amendment to the antiterrorism law that allowed the state to ban charities linked to Hafiz Saeed  ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , like Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation. The Constitution, however, requires a presidential amendment to be ratified or renewed by the parliament within four months of its issuance. Recently, Hafiz Saeed filed a petition, arguing that the amendment to Pakistain’s antiterrorism law had become unconstitutional as the parliament failed to ratify it. Hafiz Saeed initially headed Lashkar-e-Taiba  ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), formed in the 1980s, which was designated a terrorist outfit by the US, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , Britannia, Russia and the European Union  ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing.... In 2012, the United States announced a $10 million bounty for Hafiz Saeed’s arrest. Pakistain has also banned the group. But US officials say that Hafiz Saeed has evaded the ban on LeT by creating multiple other organizations, including JuD and FIF, that work as LeT’s fronts. Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation manage a large charity network with the help of thousands of volunteers. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-02 |
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