Despite its name figuring in Pakistan government's ''watchlist'', several international organisations like WHO and UNICEF have closely worked with Jamat-ud-Dawa, an outfit linked with banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in providing relief to quake victims in PoK. Various international relief organisations, including Red Cross, World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, World Food Programme, UN Organisation for Refugees, Sikh welfare organisation Khalsa Aid and Singapore-based MCTH Association had been working with Dawa in quake-hit areas of PoK, Pakistani daily Nawai Waqt reported on Wednesday. These international agencies were "very impressed" with the "strong, well-linked and organised" network of Dawa and provided "huge relief goods" to it, the report said. Turkish and Indonesian doctors also presented their services to medical camps run by Dawa, it said, adding that World Food Programme (WFP) handed over two additional containers of relief goods to it. A WFP official told the in-charge of Dawa relief operation, Haji Javedul Hasan, that since his distribution method was better than others, the relief goods were handed over to him, the newspaper claimed. Jamat-ud-Dawa was the new organisation floated by its founder Hafeez Sayed after dissolving Markaz Dawa, the parent outfit of LeT in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the US and the terrorist attack on Parliament House in December 2001. |