[DAWN] In what appears to be a move towards the swift implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), Pakistain on Thursday said the bank accounts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) have been frozen and foreign travel restrictions have been imposed on Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
, the organization's leader.
"Pakistain took this decision under the UN obligation and not under pressure from any other quarter including John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
," Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad.
Aslam said that assets of all banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations in the country have been frozen and that the country is taking action against gunnies with discrimination, according to a report published on Radio Pakistain.
The FO spokesperson also said that the Haqqani Network has also been banned, however, she added that the organization does not have bank accounts in Pakistain. She further reiterated that the decision has been taken in Pakistain's own interest and not due to external pressure.
The US and India both have always considered JuD, the 'charity' organization run by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, as the sister organization of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned , always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
, a Death Eater outfit facing blame of criminal masterminding 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
The Haqqani Network, founded by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, has been blamed for some of the most deadly attacks on US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States in September 2012.
An interior ministry official a day earlier confirmed to Dawn.com that Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Haqqani network are in the list of proscribed outfits. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the government showed reluctance to announce the curb in an official capacity.
Talking to Dawn.com, an interior ministry official said the United States had sought a ban on the Haqqani network and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) but the matter was being delayed.
According to the documents available with Dawn.com, the interior ministry has added Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, Harkat-ul-MujahiÂdeen, Falah-e-Insaniat FounÂdation, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, Haji Khairullah Hajji Sattar Money Exchange, Rahat Limited, Roshan Money Exchange, Al Akhtar Trust, Al Rashid Trust, Haqqani network and Jamaat-ud-Dawa to the list of proscribed organizations.
"During his recent visit to Islamabad, US Secretary of State John Kerry also appreciated the decision of the government to put a ban on the Haqqani network and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa," the official said.
He said the government had already directed the departments concerned to take immediate steps to freeze the assets of the banned outfits, including the Haqqani Network and JuD. 
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