bansHafiz Saeed. Really. Honest.
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
, a move which paves the way for Islamabad to proceed against suspected criminal masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The change was made by President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday, and published by the law ministry late Monday.
"The amendment means that all individuals and entities listed by the United Nations also stand banned under Pak laws now," a senior government official told AFP.
He declined to say what actions were being taken after the change, and analysts said it was unclear why it was needed when Pakistain is already a member of the UN.
The move comes after Washington piled pressure on Pakistain last November to take action against Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
, the alleged criminal mastermind of the Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people, after he was released from house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistain says there is not enough evidence to charge him, and denies harbouring krazed killers.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the White House has said that freeing him "belies Pak claims that it will not provide sanctuary for terrorists".
Security analyst Amir Rana said the Pak move may have been in anticipation of the meeting in Gay Paree next week of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental organization to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Observers say Pakistain fears being put on money laundering and terrorist financing lists.
Saeed heads the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), believed to be a front for 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...
(LeT), a krazed killer group that battles Indian troops in disputed Kashmire and was blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
Six Americans were among those killed during the three-day siege in Mumbai, when button men who arrived by sea sparked battles with Indian commandos.
The drama brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistain to the brink of war.
Saeed, who has a $10 million US bounty on his head, has denied involvement. He was listed by the UN in December 2008 for being associated with LeT, as well as having links to the al-Qaeda terror network and Talibs.
JuD is similarly listed by the UN as a terrorist group. No officials from the charity were immediately available for comment.