The Pakistani government decided to reinstate a ban on two terror organisations already been placed in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions committee’s consolidated list, after a suicide attack in Pulwama-which claimed lives of more than 40 CRPF Jawans, an official statement on Friday said.
Pakistan banned the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa JuD and its front Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation or FIF and both are blamed to have links with proscribed militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
A statement from the Ministry of Information said that the National Security Committee meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in chair decided that “Jamat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation be notified as proscribed organisations.”
The National Security Committee meeting was called amid rising tension between Pakistan and India following the February 14 suicide attack in Pulwama.
According to the statement, the Mr Khan directed the security institutions to accelerate action against the proscribed organisations to “ensure that militancy and extremism are routed from the society and the state never becomes hostage to extremists.”
