ISLAMABAD – Continuing its crackdown against JuD Chief, Hafiz Saeed, thePakistan government has now seized properties linked to his banned outfitJamaat-ud-Dawa and its charity arm Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FiF) inAzad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Punjab province.
148 properties linked to JuD chief were seized in Punjab province.
Interior Secretary Arshad Mirza told the Senate Committee on Interior onThursday that the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) had confiscated threeimmovable assets of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and FIF, including hospitals anddispensaries.
The meeting was presided over by Senator Rehman Malik, the report said.
Mirza further informed the committee that Pakistan Red Crescent, ahumanitarian organisation, had been asked to take over seven ambulancesassociated with the two organisations.
Senate Committee on Interior had earlier sought to know from the Ministryof Interior and Foreign Affairs on what measures the government had takenin view of Pakistan’s placement on ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action TaskForce (FATF).
Mirza told the panel that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the JuD and the FIFwere on the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) sanction list as perits resolution number 1267.
Therefore, Pakistan was supposed to impose sanctions against the threeoutfits, he said.
The Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) was also amended through a presidential orderfor taking action against the three organisations that had been declaredproscribed by the UNSC, he added.