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| Pak govt's lifting of JuD ban slammed as giving 'license to jihad' |
| 2011-11-09 |
| [One Pakistan] A member of the Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistain has slammed the government for allowing the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... to collect Eid donations, saying it is clearly evident that 'such thug organizations follow the government's agenda and function with its support'. Golly. You don't think they're just pretend-banned, do you? On Eid, the government had placed no restrictions on Jamaatud Dawa from collecting animal hides after the Eidul Azha sacrifice. The group says it has set up a hundred camps for hide collection in Lahore alone. Allama Zubair Ahmed Zaheer, a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology and a Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistain leader, however, said the government was giving "undue favour" to "some thug organizations". "It is clear discrimination. It shows that such thug organizations follow the government's agenda and function with its support. No religious party should have the right to make lashkars or wage so-called jihad. How will the government stop thug groups from functioning when it is giving them a free hand to collect funds?" The Express Tribune reports. The Pakistain interior ministry had earlier released a list of 31 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, excluding Jamaatud Dawa. Most of the organizations were already in the banned list, but People"s Aman Committee of Bloody Karachi, Shia Tulaba Action Committee, Markaz Sabeel Organisation and Tanzeem-i-Naujawanan-i-Sunnat of Gilgit-Baltistan have been added to it now. The list has counted several thug outfits operating under new names as different organizations. Jaish-i-Muhammad and Khuddam-ul-Islam are two names of the same organization. Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistain and Tehreek-i-Jafaria Pakistain have changed their names to Millat-i-Islamia Pakistain and Islami Tehreek, respectively. They have been mentioned as separate entities. Lashkar-i-Taiba is on the list but its changed name, Jamaatud Dawa, is missing. A member of the JD information department, said that the group was operating roughly a hundred camps in Lahore under the name JD or the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Thats why this country has the most jihadi/militant groups in the world! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-11-09 14:35 |