Hafiz Saeed

He inaugurated the front’s first office in Lahore in December, and has said the League will contest elections in 2018.

“(US) treasury is targeting the Milli Muslim League and a group of seven global terrorists who are complicit in Lashkar-e Tayyiba’s attempts to undermine Pakistan’s political process,” treasury undersecretary Sigal Mandelker said on Monday.

“The Milli Muslim League is not a recognised political party; further it relies on the leadership of Lashkar-e Tayyiba for guidance and direction. We will continue to target terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e Tayyiba, even when they attempt to cloak themselves as political parties or hide their extremism behind other facades,” he said.

Pakistan is already on notice from the Trump administration for continued failure to take decisive action against terrorists based on its soil such as LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and the Haqqani Network.

It is also slated to go on the gray-list of the Financial Action Task Force, a secretive intergovernmental body that monitors and targets money laundering and terrorist financing, in June, in a move proposed and pushed through by the US, which has been extremely annoyed by Islamabad’s handling of Saeed and the LeT. When he was released from house arrest last year, the Trump administration threatened “repercussions” for bilateral ties if he was not immediately re-arrested and prosecuted.

As Islamabad hemmed and hawed and blamed the judiciary, Saeed has remained free and regularly mocks the US and challenges it to arrest him. The US designation will deny MML access to American financial systems and prohibit American citizens from supporting it. classes 11 and 12.

The court was hearing public interest litigations that asked for the exam to be held in April instead of July, and for leniency in the marking scheme.

This is perhaps the first time in the board’s history that such wholesale retests are happening. There have been retests in the past, but these have been restricted to a few centres.