Attempts to access the Twitter page of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
, chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) group alleged to have been behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, resulted in a message saying the account had been suspended.
"The Indian media is propagating against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and the Twitter administration has also been forced by the same Indian media," Asif Khurshid, a JuD front man told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
"Twitter must clarify its position because Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a charity and an Islamic welfare organization," he said.
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment by AFP.
Saeed used his account on Twitter, which was active for several years to direct messages of hate toward India and express support for the disputed region of Kashmire's right to self-determination.
JuD is listed as an alias of the 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) Islamist group by the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
, which has also labeled Saeed an abettor of Al Qaeda and brought sanctions against him, although he has never been convicted of a crime inside Pakistain.
Aside from its alleged role in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, LeT is active against Indian forces in Kashmire and was blamed for an attack on the Indian consul in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Afghanistan in May.
It is also a designated a terror outfit by the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Despite being nominally banned by the government of Pakistain, its activists are allowed free movement and staged a major rally in the city of Lahore last weekend.
The party has since made a fresh account with @HafizSaeedJUD1, with its latest Tweet announcing: "This is the new Official Twitter account of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Ameer Jamat ud Dawah -- Official Response on Twitter double standards soon."