Pak govt bans 11 organisations

Pakistan government has banned 11 organisations for having links with the proscribed outfits Jaamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), an official statement said Saturday.

The decision to ban these organisations was taken during ameeting between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Interior Minister IjazShah on Friday.

   

After the February 14 Pulwama attack, in which 40 Indiansecurity personnel were killed by a suicide bomber of the Pakistan-based JeM,Khan had said Islamabad would not spare any group involved in militancy orusing Pakistani soil for any kind of terror activity against other countries.

Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA),which works under the Ministry of Interior, announced on its website that sevengroups have been banned for their affiliation with the JuD, which wasproscribed in March by the Pakistan government.

The organisation which have been proscribed are Al-AnfalTrust, IdaraKhidmat-e-Khalaq, Al-DawatulIrshad, Mosques & Welfare Trust,Al-Medina Foundation, Mazz-Bin-Jabel Education Trust and Al-Hamad Trust, thestatement said.

All these groups are Lahore-based.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior took the action on thegovernment’s directive to speed up implementation of the National Action Planof 2015 to eliminate militancy and extremism from the country’s soil.

Apart from the seven, Lahore-based Al-Fazal Foundation/Trustand Al-Easar Foundation were also banned for having links with the FIF, theNACTA said.

The FIF, like JuD, was also banned in March by the Pakistangovernment.

According to the NACTA, Bahawalpur-based Al-Rehmat Trust Organization and Karachi-based Al-Furqan Trust were also banned on Friday for having links with the JeM, which was banned in January 2002. Recently, the government announced to take control of more than 30,000 religious seminaries. PTI

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