SAEED, AIDES USING JUD OFFICES DESPITE BAN IN PAK

Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and other leaders of the JuD and the Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation are still using the banned groups’ offices despite Pakistan’s claims that all the assets of the two outfits have been seized, an official said.

LAHORE: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and other leaders of the Jamaat-udDawa (JuD) and the Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) are still freely using the banned groups’ offices despite Pakistan’s claims that all the assets of the two groups have been seized and their bank accounts frozen, an official said on Tuesday.

“Since the government has taken over the control of JuD headquarters in Lahore last month, Saeed delivered three successive Friday sermons 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,” an official told PTI on Tuesday.

A similar arrangement was made at JuD’s Muridke headquarters, he added.

The government had initiated action against Saeed’s organisations in pursuance of an ordinance amending the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, and allowing the state to proscribe UNSC-listed organisations.

The move had also come in the backdrop of a meeting of the Financial Action Task Force , an intergovernmental moneylaundering watchdog, which had decided to place Pakistan on its “grey list” during a plenary meeting in Paris last week.