The monitoring team of the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee will visiting Islamabad this week for an assessment of Islamabad’s compliance with the world body’s sanctions regime.
The UN monitoring team’s visit is taking place amid increasing pressure on Pakistan from the US and India with respect to the inadequate implementation of the sanctions on Saeed and entities linked to him.
During an interview, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had said, "There is no case against Hafiz Saeed sahib in Pakistan. Only when there is a case can there be action."
Reacting strongly to the comments, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the US believes that Saeed should be prosecuted and they have told Pakistan as much.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed the 1,279- page chargesheet before a designated court in New Delhi and sought permission to continue its probe.
Interestingly, Saeed, the Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief who conceived and executed many terror operations against India, claimed that he will launch a campaign against terrorism in Pakistan besides waging a war against suicide bombers.
Earlier in November, the Abbasi had claimed that India has provided "no evidence" against Saeed on the basis of which he can be prosecuted.
The report said that Saeed, one of the world’s most wanted terror suspects, who now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group in Pakistan, had toured British mosques in 1995 and his visit was recorded in a magazine published by the LeT at the
Pakistani newspaper's New Year calender is featuring Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on it! A Pakistan-based journalist Omar R Quraishi tweeted a photo of the annual calender issued by the Urdu newspaper 'Khabrain'.
"We deny this information. Our ambassador in Pakistan is in Palestine and our position was declared by our official statement which we have published last week," Palestinian Foreign Ministry added.
Following his release from house arrest, terrorist Saeed announced entry into politics and said that he will be contesting the 2018 general elections in Pakistan.
Pakistan banned JuD and FIF and other organisations from collecting donations on Monday, after Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to the US but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists.
The US has labelled JuD and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) the "terrorist fronts" for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a group Saeed founded in 1987 and which Washington and India blame for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
Hafiz Saeed’s remarks comes hours after JuD said that it will serve a legal notice to Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan for "defaming" it.
JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid said Pakistani Defence Minister Dastgir is "speaking the language of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi".
In addition to JuD and FIF, the list also includes LeT itself, the Paasban-i-Ahle- Hadith and Pasban-i-Kashmir.
Pakistan is under tremendous international pressure to clip the wings of Saeed, who is a UN-designated terrorist and is on US Most Wasted Terrorist list for being the mastermind of deadly 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.
Palestinian Ambassador to India Adnan Abu Al Haija confirmed that Walid Abu Ali has been recalled by the administration following India’s objection.
Yesterday, the MEA had said that it has taken cognizance of the reports and photographs showing Palestinian ambassador in Islamabad Walid Abu Ali attending an event organised by the JuD.
According to reports, Palestinian ambassador in Islamabad Walid Abu Ali attended a large rally organised by the Difa-e-Pakistan Council in Rawalpindi, Pakistan this morning.
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