UN terror list has 139 Pakistan entries: Report

THE LIST INCLUDES DAWOOD IBRAHIM, WHO, ACCORDING TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, HAS HELD PAKISTANI PASSPORTS ISSUED IN RAWALPINDI AND KARACHI.

ISLAMABAD: The UN Security Council’s updated list of terrorists and militant groups has 139 entries from Pakistan, including outfits like Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Lashkare-taiba (LET), according to a media report.

The list, headed by Osama bin Laden’s heir apparent Ayman al-zawahiri, identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have been associated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out their operations, Dawn News reported.

Saeed is listed as a person also wanted by Interpol for his involvement in terrorist activities. The LET is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.

The list also includes Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. The UN says he owns a palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad, Karachi. Dawood, wanted in India as the mastermind of the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 and accused of crimes such as match-fixing and extortion, accrued a vast property portfolio across the Midlands and southeast UK as well as India, the UAE, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus and Australia.

Haji Mohammed Yahya Mujahid, Jud’s spokesman, and Saeed’s deputies, Abdul Salaam and Zafar Iqbal, are also listed. Like Saeed, they are all wanted by the Interpol.

The LET is listed with its various aliases, such as al-mansoorian, Paasban-i-kashmir, Paasban-i-ahle Hadith, Jamaatud Dawa and Falah-i-insaniat Foundation, the report said.

More than a dozen suspected terrorists are listed in the same category, arrested in Pakistan and handed over to the US authorities. Some had a Pakistani passport, issued by various Pakistani missions in the Middle East and renewed in Pakistan.

The terrorist entities that were allegedly based in Pakistan, worked from there or had links to Pakistani individuals, include Jaish-e-mohammed, Afghan Support Committee, Lashkar-i-jhangvi, Al Akhtar Trust International, Harkatul Jihad Islami, Tehreek-i-taliban Pakistan, Jamaatul Ahrar and Khatiba Imam Al-bukhari.

The report, however, did not give the total number of entries in the updated UNSC list.