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| 'Opposition to be taken into confidence regarding crackdown on proscribed organisations' |
| 2019-03-08 |
| [DAWN] Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said the government has decided that it will decide on its larger strategy on how to act against proscribed organizations after discussing the matter with other parliamentary leaders. While addressing a presser, the information minister said that the leaders of major parties will be taken into confidence with regards to major decisions on 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. Chaudhry said that a consensus had been built in the country in recent days in response to Indian aggression and the government wanted this consensus to be sustained rather than see it break "over small things". He said that these were matters of national interest and the government wanted to move forward with the opposition the way it had with various other institutions. On Tuesday, officials of the Ministry of Interior had announced that 44 under-observation members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar (no relation to the Minister of State for Revenue) ‐ the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively ‐ had been taken into "preventive detention" for investigation. Law enforcement agencies on Wednesday intensified the ongoing crackdown on JeM, Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and other banned outfits, with the arrest of more than 100 activists and takeover of nearly 200 seminaries besides hundreds of other facilities and assets associated with them across the country. Chaudhry today said matters regarding proscribed organizations had been decided in 2014 when all political parties had signed on to the National Action Plan (NAP). He noted that one of the fundamental bases for the plan was to take steps to ensure that Pakistain's soil was not used against any other country. |
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