The federal government requested the Sindh High Court on Tuesday to dismiss the petition filed by Al-Akhtar Trust International against the freezing of its six bank accounts. In the comments to the petition the federal government denied that the trust was doing charity work to help people affected by natural calamities.
| Unless you consider living near people with different-colored turbans or — Allah forbid! — different religions a natural calamity. |
The federal government took the stand that the accounts of the trust had been frozen keeping in view national interests. The activities of the trust were linked to the former Afghan ruling group of Taliban and Al Qaeda, the federal government pleaded and claimed that the activities of Al-Akhtar Trust were linked with the Al-Rashid Trust, whose bank accounts had been frozen earlier. |