Lashkar-e-Tayyaba was operating in the guise of Jamaatud Dawa and Pakistan would have been isolated in the world if the group had not been banned, a private TV channel reported Federal Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi as saying on Sunday. However, the minister said no religious organisation, including Jamaatud Dawa, was involved in terrorist activities, the channel reported. Those two statements would appear to be mutually contradictory, unless he's saying Lashkar's not a terror org.
Kazmi said Jamaatud Dawa was banned under pressure from the United Nations.
They're hoping nobody but JuD noticed when they immediately started ignoring the ban...
The minister also denied reports that people were sent to perform haj on government expenses, APP reported. He said some United Arab Emirates-based philanthropists had deposited money in Pakistan and the returns on it had been used to facilitate people who wanted to perform haj.