Pak NSA says Jamaat ud Dawa will be banned, if evidences against it is found
December 10th, 2008 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI Islamabad, Dec.10 (ANI): Pakistan’’s National Security Advisor Mahmood Ali Durrani has said that if evidence is found against the Jamaat ud Dawa, the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, in connection with last month’’s terror attacks in Mumbai, then it would be banned.
He told Geo News that if any evidence is found against any organization during the investigations, then the same would also be banned.
Durrani’’s statement came a day after Pakistan’’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon,echoed similar sentiments.
Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Ambassador Haroon confirmed that India has approached to UN Security Council to get Jamaat-ud-Dawa banned.
He said that Pakistan is ready to ban the suspected outfit if the UN requests Islamabad to do so, adding that the Jamaat-ud-Dawas bank accounts could also be freezed.
The Pakistan envoys missive came as a tough-talking India urged the UN Security Council to declare the Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist outfit.
During the course of a debate at the Security Council on terrorism, Indias Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed asserted without naming Pakistan that the country, from where the terrorist attack originated and was planned, should take immediate steps to stop their operations.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa and other such organizations need to be proscribed internationally and effective sanctions imposed against them, The News quoted Ahamed as telling the 15-member UN Security Council, which held a debate on Threats to international peace and security cause by terrorists.
India and the US have said that the Lashkar-e-Toiba and its leaders are involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
India in a letter Friday had formally asked the UN Security Council to declare the Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a terrorist outfit. It also demanded that its leader Hafiz Mohammed Saeed be placed under the Security Council list of global terrorists.
The Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks dominated the proceedings of this special meeting of the Security Council, wherein member nations not only condemned the heinous attack, but also underlined the need to bring those responsible for it to justice. (ANI)
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