The Indian media reported earlier on Thursday that the Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
administration had accepted India’s request to label more Pak hard boy groups as globally designated terrorists. The request was made at the first India-US conference on designation of terror criminal masterminds and organizations held in New Delhi on Dec 18-19.
When Dawn contacted the State Department for comment on the reports that the United States could add more Pakistain-based groups to its list of terrorist outfits, an official said: "While Pakistain is an important partner for achieving US priorities in the region, this administration has also set clear expectations for Pakistain to take decisive action against terrorist and hard boy groups that operate from Pak soil."
The official did not identify the groups that Washington wanted Pakistain to go after, but diplomatic observers in the US capital see it against the backdrop of a recent statement criticising Islamabad for allowing 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...
to continue his political activities.
On Tuesday, State Department’s spokesperson Heather Nauert reminded Pakistain that Hafiz Saeed was a US-designated terrorist with a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest and if he ran for election in 2018, it would certainly be a cause of concern for Washington.
Official sources in Washington had also expressed similar concerns after the Lahore by-election earlier this year, in which Hafiz Saeed’s group backed a new party called Milli Moslem League. The group received more votes than both the Pakistain Peoples Party and Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
combined.