...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 to the UN terror blacklist, diplomats said.
It was the third time that the UN Security Council was considering a resolution to put Azhar on the UN sanctions blacklist, which would subject him to a global travel ban and assets freeze.
China has twice blocked -- in 2016 and 2017 -- attempts to impose sanctions on the JeM chief. The group itself was added to the terror list in 2001.
In a note sent to the council, China said it needed more time to examine the sanctions request targeting Azhar, diplomats said.
India claims that JeM has claimed the credit for the February 14 attack in Indian-Indian Kashmiree that killed 40 Indian troops.
But Foreign Minister Shah
Mehmood WormtongueQureshi also recently denied in a television interview that JeM had grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom.
India and Pakistain carried out air raids last month on their disputed Kashmire frontier in festivities that sent tensions soaring between the nuclear-armed countries.
India on February 26 claimed to have staged an air strike on a camp inside Pakistain that it said belonged to JeM, but Islamabad denied that any such facility had been targeted. A day later, Pakistain shot down two Indian aircraft for violating its airspace and captured an Indian pilot, who was released two days later in a peace gesture.
The government had announced last week that more than 100 members of 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, including the son and brother of Azhar, including many from JeM, were tossed into the calaboose in a crackdown.