Author: PTI
Publication: Rediff.com
Date: August 5, 2009
URL: http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/aug/05/pak-bans-25-organisations-including-jud-and-let.htm
The Pakistan government has banned 25 religious
and other organisations, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the Jaish-e-Mohammed
and the Lashker-e-Tayiba, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry presented a list of the banned
organisations in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. It also
said the Sunni Tehrik had been put on a watch list.
Among the organisations included in the list
of outlawed groups are JuD, LeT, JeM, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan,
Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muahammadi, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,
Al-Akhtar Trust, Al-Rasheed Trust, Tehreek-e-Islami, Islamic Students Movement,
Khair-un-Nisa International Trust, Islami Tehreek-e-Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Islam,
Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-un-Nisar, Khadam Islam and Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan.
A majority of the groups have been linked
to terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan.
India has blamed the JuD, LeT and JeM for
several attacks on its soil, including the Mumbai [ Images ] attacks and the
2001 assault on the Indian parliament.
Pakistan banned the JuD after the United Nations
Security Council declared it a front for the LeT in December last year. The
LeT and JeM were banned by the country in 2002.
