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| UN names JuD as terror outfit | | | AGENCIES
United Nations, Dec 11: Heeding to India's demand, UN Security Council has placed sanctions on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, front organisation of banned LeT, declaring it a terrorist outfit, and labelled as terrorists its chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and suspected Mumbai attacks mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Besides Sayeed and Lakhvi, two other top leaders of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Haji Muhammad Ashraf and Zaki-ur-Bahaziq have also been declared as terrorists by the UNSC.
Imposing the sanctions, the Council late on Wednesday asked all member States to freeze their assets and imposed travel ban and arms embargo against them.
India had sought ban on JuD after LeT was suspected to be behind the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
The decision was taken by the Council's committee on al-Qaeda and Taliban which put JuD and the four individuals on the Consolidated List of persons and entities connected with al-Qaeda and Taliban.
The United States had sought ban on Lakhvi, operations leader of LeT who is suspected to be the mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks, Ashraf, a JuD financier, and Bahaziq, an Indian-born Saudi who was said to collecting funds for the banned organisations in Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan had given pledge to the Security Council that it would proscribe JuD should the Council decide to ban it.
The Committee had imposed sanctions on LeT in 2005, citing its affiliation with al-Qaeda. Pakistan had banned LeT in 2002 but it continues to operate under different names.
Reacting to the decision, the United States said it is pleased that the Committee has decided to move forward on these high-priority designations.
"These actions will limit the ability of known terrorists to travel, acquire weapons, plan, carry out, or raise funds for new terrorist attacks," Office of the Spokesman said in a statement.
The actions, it said, reaffirm the Council's commitment to updating the Consolidated List to ensure it continues to serve as a tool to help member states deter terrorist activities of al-Qaeda and affiliated groups.
During the debate in the Security Council on Tuesday, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed had said the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and other such organisations need to be proscribed internationally and effective sanctions imposed against them.
"Their country of origin needs to take urgent steps to stop their functioning," he had said while intervening in a debate on terrorism in UN Security Council.
"A message must also go out that perpetrators of terrorist acts must be brought to book and not given sanctuaries in some states," Ahamed had said.
The minister had asked Pakistan to act against terrorism emanating from its soil, failing which India will "do everything to protect its citizens."
Close on the heels of Ahamed's hard-hitting remarks, Pakistan's Ambassador to UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, had promised that Islamabad would proscribe JuD should the Council decide to put sanctions on it after declaring it a terrorist group.
Besides this, no training camps for Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or any entity of this nature would be allowed on its territory, he had said. |
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