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| China scuttles US move for global ban on Jamat-ud Dawa |
| 2006-09-21 |
| Islamabad, Sept. 22 (PTI): China, an all-weather ally of Pakistan, has blocked efforts by the United States to seek an international ban on Pakistan-based outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawah, an offshoot of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba. US has already declared JUD, founded by Lashkar founder-leader Hafeez Saeed, as a terrorist outfit and moved its case to the UN Security Council's Al-Qaeda and Taliban, (UNSCAT) sanctions committee seeking an international ban. However, China which is one of the five UNSC permanent members, put the request on technical hold and sought credible evidences indicating the outfit's linkages with al-Qaeda, Pakistan daily The Post said. As JUD was considered to be the off-shoot of LeT that was declared a terrorist outfit by the UNSCAT on May 2, 2005, US sought the inclusion JUD in the list of terrorist organisations on the same lines. But Pakistan officials adopted a different strategy and managed to thwart it by denying its links with Al-Qaeda, the newspaper reported. The status quo continues to prevail as the US has failed to provide the required information, the newspaper quoted Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson, Tasnim Aslam, as saying. She said the technical hold requires information demanded by any UNSC member for processing the request. She, however, denied divulging the nature of information the China had sought. "It is confidential," she said. The Chinese intervention in JUD's case adds new dimension to the Pak-China relations. This was perhaps the first time China, which has been pressing Pakistan for its part to crackdown on Al-Qaeda militants from the bordering Muslim-dominated Xiangxiang province, to have intervened on issues related to militant groups and terrorism. |
| Posted by:john |
| #3 Talk out of two sides of your mouth. |
| Posted by: newc 2006-09-21 19:34 |
| #2 China is slowly removing any compunctions we should have about taking Iran offline. Just keep it up, guys, and we'll be selling you Iraqi oil for $200.00 a barrel. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-21 19:01 |
| #1 The Chinese intervention in JUD's case adds new dimension to the Pak-China relations. And to US-China relations, as well. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-09-21 18:43 |