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Masood Azhar's son, brother detained in govt crackdown against banned organisations
 [DAWN] Forty-four under-observation members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar (no relation to the Minister of State for Revenue) ‐ the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively ‐ have been taken in "preventive detention" for investigation, said officials of the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday. "In order to implement National Action Plan (NAP), a high-level meeting was held in the Ministry of Interior on March 4, attended by all representatives of all provincial governments," said a statement by the ministry. "These actions will continue, as per the decisions taken in National Security Committee (NSC) while reviewing NAP." This was also confirmed by Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi and Ministry of Interior Secretary Azam SLearned Elders of Islamn Khan at a presser on Tuesday. "This is across the board ‐ we don't want to give the impression that we are against one organization," said Khan while talking to the media. He acknowledged that some people who have been detained ‐ including Raoof and Azhar ‐ are named in the dossier handed by India to Pakistain on the Pulwama attack. "It does not mean that action is being taken against only those individuals who are mentioned in the dossier." The interior ministry secretary further said: "If we have to take over any [organization's] assets, we will do so. Assets can be taken over of organizations already declared as proscribed, under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997. "If we obtain any further evidence or if we have to investigate any organization, the government can take any organization['s leaders] into custody at any time." The secretary was also questioned by a news hound regarding the status of Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), which the news hound said is still "on a watch list" according to Indian media and not yet proscribed. Furthermore, the news hound inquired as to why a notification was issued by the information ministry and not the interior ministry when the government's decision to reinstate the ban on the organization was announced on February 21. The secretary chalked the delay down to paperwork and confirmed that the ban will take effect within 24 hours and a notification will be issued, this time by the interior ministry. A few short hours following the presser, the interior ministry released an updated list of 70 organizations declared proscribed by the ministry under Schedule 1 of ATA, 1997. The schedule shows the addition of 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) on March 5, 2019, whereas Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) appears on number 3, having been added to the list on Jan 14, 2002. Posted by: Fred 2019-03-06 |
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