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| Banned outfits collecting funds booked, Punjab tells SC |
| 2015-07-31 |
| [DAWN] In a bid to curb terror financing, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government has booked a number of banned ...the word bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all... organizations for illegally collecting funds from the public. The cases have been registered against Al-Rasheed Trust (Maymar Trust) and Al-Rehmat Trust in Multan, Ansarul Ummah, Sipa-e-Sahaba and Tehrik-e-Ghulbai-e-Islam in Bahawalpur and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Gujranwala. The accused involved in illegal collection of funds have been enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and investigations are in progress. The information was shared on Wednesday with a two-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja which had taken up a case relating to activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The matter cropped up during the June 23 hearing of a bail application of Haroonur Rashid who had been booked for alleged fraud in a business transaction. During the case, it emerged that the parties involved had invested in a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... -based NGO 'Baraan' which was registered in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. but had spread its activities to Tank, Bannu and D.I. Khan. Consequently, the apex court asked for information about the steps the government had taken after Dec 24, 2014 -- the day the National Action Plan (NAP) was prepared in consultations with all political parties against the backdrop of the Dec 16, 2014 massacre of children in Peshawar's Army Public School -- to curb extremism and militancy in the country. A voluminous report submitted by Additional Advocate General of Punjab Razzaq A. Mirza on Wednesday said the provincial Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) was strictly monitoring activities of outlawed organizations and hardcore bad boys, including those mentioned in the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997, as well as their controllers involved in raising and possessing funds for terrorism. According to the report, the CTD has arrested a gang of 12 people found collecting funds for Jaish-e-Muhammad and Al-Rehmat Trust and confiscated 'Jihadi' literature and receipt books. |
| Posted by:Fred |