...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...
-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
‐ after repeatedly failing to get itself registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain, has announced to contest the upcoming general election from the platform of Allahu Akbar Tehrik (AAT).
MML spokesperson Tabish Qayyum, while speaking to DawnNewsTV, attested to the fact that after the ECP again dismissed its application on Wednesday, their party's candidates decided to contest the election using the Allahu Akbar Tehrik platform.
Responding to a query regarding the number of candidates from MML standing for election, the spokesperson revealed that around 200 hopefuls will be contesting from across the country.
It is pertinent to mention that the AAT is a political party registered with the ECP, whose leader is Mian Ahsan Bari and which has been allotted the symbol of 'chair' for the 2018 election.
The party was registered a decade ago and contested the 2013 election with the symbol of cow.
Qayyum said that the contestants are facing a lot of difficulties following the ECP's refusal to register their party."Our candidates are under a lot of pressure following the commission's decision," he said, adding that the party had hope till the very end that its registration would be approved.
When asked about the possibility of an alliance with other parties, the spokesperson said that the party is in talks with Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid (PML-Q), Pakistain Moslem League-Functional (PML-F), and others as well.
To a question regarding whether the party wishes to form an alliance with the Nawaz league, Qayyum categorically denied the prospect, iterating that an alliance was neither possible nor on the cards for MML, because the PML-N government had been opposing the MML's registration with the ECP.
The MML has been a recipient of the support of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)'s Hafiz Saeed, who has been accused of alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and on whose head a bounty of $10 million has been placed.
In April 2018, the US Department of State amended its designation of 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), identifying Milli Moslem League (MML) and Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAK) as LeT affiliates, which makes it impossible for them to register as political parties.