door of a Jamaat ud-Dawa office in Quetta,
Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
By Patrick Goodenough
Pakistani authorities have placed under house arrest the founder of the militant Islamist group that India blames for the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and on Friday they were shutting down the offices of his “charitable” organization.
Hafiz Saeed claims the charity, Jamaat ud-Dawa (JuD), is unrelated to the outlawed militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), but the U.S. State Department calls it a “front operation” for LeT.
Pakistan moved against Saeed and JuD two weeds after the attacks in India’s commercial capital that killed more than 170 people. It did so under pressure from India, the U.S. and other governments, and a day after a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee imposed an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on four JuD/LeT members. Read more ...
Pakistani authorities have placed under house arrest the founder of the militant Islamist group that India blames for the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and on Friday they were shutting down the offices of his “charitable” organization.
Hafiz Saeed claims the charity, Jamaat ud-Dawa (JuD), is unrelated to the outlawed militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), but the U.S. State Department calls it a “front operation” for LeT.
Pakistan moved against Saeed and JuD two weeds after the attacks in India’s commercial capital that killed more than 170 people. It did so under pressure from India, the U.S. and other governments, and a day after a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee imposed an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on four JuD/LeT members. Read more ...
Source: CNS News
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