Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and other leaders of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) are still freely using the banned groups\u2019 offices despite Pakistan\u2019s claims that all the assets of the two outfits have been seizedand their bank accounts frozen, an official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The government last month had taken over the JuD\u2019s famous Muridke Markaz and Lahore\u2019s headquarters of Masjid Al Qadsia in Chauburji. But on ground neither Saeed and his supporters left the JuD\u2019s Chauburji headquarters nor that of Muridke and other offices of JuD and the FIF in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the government has taken over the control of JuD headquarters in Lahore in mid last month, Saeed delivered three Friday sermons in three successive weeks there in the presence of a large number of his supporters. The government could only deploy its administrator at al Qadsia while the JuD men are operating from there the way they used to,\u201d an official of the Punjab government told PTI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A similar arrangement was made at JuD\u2019s Muridke headquarters, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government has not barred Saeed and activists of his charities from using the JuD headquarters in Lahore and Muridke, and other offices of the two organisations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The government had initiated action against Saeed\u2019s organisations in pursuance of an ordinance issued by President Mamnoon Hussain in February amending the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997, and allowing the state to proscribe UNSC-listed organisations, some of which had been exempt from prosecution.<\/p>\n
The move had also come in the backdrop of a meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental money-laundering watchdog, that put Pakistan on a grey list.<\/p>\n
At the FATF meeting in Paris last month, Saeed and his \u201ccharities\u201d were top on the list of the groups that the FATF wanted Pakistan to act against.<\/p>\n
Pakistan last week vowed to take further actions to address certain \u201cdeficiencies\u201d highlighted by the FATF in its anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing framework.<\/p>\n
The JuD is believed to be the front organisation for the Lashkar-e-Taiba which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. It has been declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in June 2014.<\/p>\n
Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said the officials from various government departments had been appointed as administrators of JuD\u2019s offices to oversee the working of welfare-oriented facilities like dispensaries and schools.<\/p>\n
To a question about as why the JuD leadership including Saeed had not been stopped using the JuD headquarters in Lahore and Muridke, the minister said: \u201cWe have taken over all JuD and FIF facilities including schools, dispensaries, offices and seminaries. These are now in the government\u2019s control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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