The US State Department has also welcomed FATF action against Pakistan and askd Islamabad to act against terror financing of UN designated terrorists.
Hafiz Saeed on Surgical Strike: Chief of Pakistan’s banned terror outfit Jamaat-Ud-Dawa (JuD), Hafiz Saeed said that India will get the deserved response soon.
With no hope of further support from the United States, the FATF grey-listing is likely to be leave Pakistan with no choice but to act against terror outfits operating from its soil in decisive manner.
Saeed, who also carries a USD 10 million American bounty on his head for his role in terror activities, is not contesting the election.
Hafiz Saeed carries a $10-million US bounty on his head for his role in terror activities and the United States had declared his outfit JuD as a foreign terrorist organisation in June 2014.
The MML has announced that candidates backed by the party will be participating from the platform of the AAT if higher courts do not rule in their favour before the election. The AAT is listed at number 10 in the ECP's list of approved parties. The AAT, a little known party, is headed by Mian Ihsan Bari from Bahawalpur.
The United States, in April 2012, announced a bounty of $10 million on Saeed, for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. In the attacks, 164 civilians were killed including six American citizens.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front for the Lashkar-e- Taiba militant group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack, launched its political front Milli Muslim League (MML), but it has not been yet registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Maulana Bashir Ahmad Khaki, a senior JuD functionary considered close to Saeed, openly issued death threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Friday sermon.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front for the Lashkar-e- Taiba militant group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack, launched its political front Milli Muslim League, but it has not been yet registered by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Saeed carries a USD 10 million American bounty for his role in terror activities. He is the mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people, including six US nationals, were killed.
In an interview to the Indian Express Major Ghafoor said; "Hafiz Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan and anything he does, other than violence, is good. "
Contradicting Pak's continuous denial of its role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif admitted that militant organisations which are active in the country were behind the dreadful terror strikes
Last month, the provincial government of Punjab in Pakistan withdrew policemen deployed for the security of Saeed after the Supreme Court directed inspector-generals of Islamabad and all four provinces to take back security escorts from people who are not entitled to it.
Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists had sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out coordinated attacks, killing 166 people and injuring over 300 in November 2008.
The bill will replace the presidential ordinance that banned outfits and people already on the watch list of the interior ministry, Dawn reported today.
The US State Department amended its designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on Monday, identifying Milli Muslim League (MML) and Tehreek-e-Azadi-e-Kashmir (TAJK) as LeT affiliates, making it impossible for them to register as political parties.
Hafiz Saeed alleged in a petition that the government was interfering in his party's welfare projects because it had bowed down to pressure from India and the US.
The United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) consolidated list of terrorists or terror-supporting organisations include 139 Pakistanis.
India today welcomed the US designating Pakistan-based Milli Muslim League (MML), an alias of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a foreign terror organisation.
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