Pakistan to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Gilani

Friday, December 12, 2008 at 3:12 am

With the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) branding the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud Dawa outfit and four of its leaders as terrorist, Islamabad on Thursday (December 11) said it will abide by the world body’s decision to proscribe the group. Pakistan will fulfill its obligations under a UN Security Council statement targeting four members of Lashkar-e-Taiba and charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa linked to the banned Islamist group, the government said.

The statement, which gave no further details, came after the UN Security Council sanctions committee targeted four members of the group blamed for the Mumbai attacks, and a charity widely viewed as its political arm, for an assets freeze and other sanctions.

“Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan has taken note of the designation of certain individuals and entities by the UN under 1267 resolution of the UN Security Council and would fulfill its international obligations,” a government statement said.

“Pakistan will abide by the UNSC committee’s decisions,” Islamabad’s envoy to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, told the private Geo TV. He was reacting to the UNSC decision to ban JuD, the front organisation of the outlawed Lashkar-e Toiba (LeT) blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks, imposing sanctions on the outfit and four of its leaders, including JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and LeT operational head Zaki-ur-Rehman.

Haroon, however, claimed the UN Security Council committee did not contact Pakistani mission in the US with regard to imposing sanctions on the Pakistani citizens and organisations. The UN’s committee had reviewed many names even before he assumed ambassadorship, Haroon told the channel.

Besides Saeed and Lakhvi, the two top leaders of the LeT declared terrorists by the UNSC are Haji Muhammad Ashraf and Zaki-ur-Bahaziq, both financiers of the terrorist outfit. The Council also asked UN member States to freeze assets of the four LeT commanders and imposed travel ban and arms embargo on them.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Pakistan to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Gilani

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