...an idea whose time has gone...
' list of banned terrorist organizations by extending the ban on the said outfits in Pakistain as well, DawnNews reported.
The country-wide ban was imposed after President Mamnoon Hussain amended the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997 and issued the amended Anti-Terrorism Ordinance 2018.
Following an amendment in Section 11-B and 11-EE of the ATA, the organizations and personnel banned through the UN's Security Council's resolution will stand banned in Pakistain too.
The development spells bad news for entities such as 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...
, Jamat-ud-Dawa, Harkat-ul Mujahideen, which are among the 27 banned outfits on the aforesaid UN list.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain had already banned the UN-identified organizations and personnel from collecting donations in the country.
The amended ATA ordinance, which goes into effect immediately, will see the assets of the banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations frozen.
The move comes just days before a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting is to take place in Gay Paree. It was feared that FATF, under pressure from the US and India, would place Pakistain on its grey list, which in turn could raise the cost of doing international financial transactions for Pakistain.