The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday permitted Mumbai 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) to continue its charity work in the country. The court also allowed the humanitarian arm of JuD, Falahi Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), to continue with its relief operations.
A two-member bench of the Supreme Court, including Justice Manzoor Ahmed and Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, issued the verdict as they rejected the appeal of the federal government against the verdict of the Lahore High Court's verdict.
According to reports, 300 00 seminaries and schools, hospitals, a publishing house, and ambulance services are included in the network of JuD.
The JuD and FIF alone have about 50,000 volunteers and hundreds of other paid workers, according to two counter-terrorism officials.
The government of Pakistan had previously banned individuals and companies from donating to JuD, FIF, and other organizations on the UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions list.
The sanction list of the UNSC includes terror organizations such as Al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, JuD, FiF, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other organizations and individuals.
“We are grateful to Almighty Allah that it gave victory to the Jamatud Dawa, which is serving humanity,” Pakistan’s Geo News quoted Hafiz Saeed as saying after the verdict of the Supreme Court.
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