Pakistan's military-led government has frozen the accounts of two nuclear scientists suspected of links with Osama bin Laden. Assets of Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid, who worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission until retiring in 1999, have been frozen by the State Bank of Pakistan. The bank also froze accounts of wealthy industrialist Mohammed Tufail. All three were on the board of directors of Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, or Nation Builder, an Islamic charity declared a terrorist group by the United States on Dec. 20.
Nice of them to get around to it, finally. |