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India-Pakistan
Releasing Hafiz Saeed from house arrest will lead to unrest, Punjab govt tells LHC
2017-09-13
[DAWN] The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

home ministry on Tuesday apprised the Lahore High Court (LHC) that releasing Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) chief 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...
from house arrest will likely create a situation of unrest in the province, DawnNews reported.

The ministry stated this in a written reply submitted before the court during the hearing of an appeal for the release of JuD chief.

During the hearing, the counsel for Saeed A. K. Khokhar argued that Saeed's detention was illegal and baseless, thus the LHC should rule in favour of the defendant and discard the order of keeping JuD leader under house arrest.

"The defendant was put under house arrest after the US threatened to cut Pakistain's aid; it was done without any cases being registered against him," Khokhar argued.

Upon this, the judges pointed out that the defendant's lawyer had made no mention of the US's alleged pressure in the case. They added that the defendant's application is based on a news clipping.

The home ministry, on the other hand, in their written reply to the LHC, said that the JuD chief was put under house arrest under the anti-terrorism laws to keep him from collecting funds ‐ which is a violation of various resolutions of the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
The reply said that the reports by police and the counter terrorism department's operational branch on the matter have also been submitted before the court.

It also pointed out that various cases were registered against members of JuD for collecting hides during the three days of Eidul Azha in contempt of the ministry's orders.

Cases were also registered against the party for collecting funds in contempt of the provincial ministry's orders, the reply said.
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