Jamaat-Ud-Dawa Can Be Banned, Says Pakistan Envoy

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Jamaat Ud Dawa Can Be Banned, Says Pakistan Envoy UNITED NATIONS: The Jamaat-ud-Dawa, could be banned on the request of the United Nations Security Council, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon said here.

Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Ambassador Haroon confirmed that India has approached to UN Security Council to get Jamaat-ud-Dawa banned.

He said that Pakistan is ready to ban the suspected outfit if the UN requests Islamabad to do so, adding that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s bank accounts could also be freeze.

The Pakistan envoy’s missive came as a tough-talking India urged the UN Security Council to declare the Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist outfit.

He said most of the people in tribal areas are affiliated with Devband school adding that the edicts of the Devband religious school could be helpful to control terrorism.
He said India can play a positive role in respect of visits of the religious scholars of Devband school to Pakistan.

During the course of a debate at the Security Council on terrorism, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed said that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and other such organizations need to be proscribed internationally and effective sanctions imposed against them,

India and the US have said that the Lashkar-e-Toiba and its leaders are involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

India in a letter Friday had formally asked the UN Security Council to declare the Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a terrorist outfit.