*ISLAMABAD*: The federal government on Wednesday issued a notificationdirecting the concerned authorities to freeze the assets of Jamaatud Dawa(JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) under Anti-terrorism(Amendment) Ordinance, 2018.
On Monday, President Mamnoon Hussain promulgated the Anti-terrorism(Amendment) Ordinance, 2018 that enables the government of Pakistan toimpose a ban on the entities banned by the United Nations Security Council(UNSC).
He promulgated the ordinance in the exercise of the powers conferred by theclause (1) of the Article 89 of the Constitution in a further amendment ofthe Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
Following an amendment in Section 11-B and 11-EE of the ATA, theorganisations and personnel banned through the UN’s Security Council’sresolution will stand banned in Pakistan too.
On Tuesday, the Interior Ministry placed a ban on terrorist outfitJundullah.
A group associated with the banned outfit, Al-Harmain Foundation, was alsobanned on charges of collecting funds, pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999)of the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC).
A notification, issued by the ministry on January 31, states that theorganisation is acting in a manner that “may be concerned in terrorism”.
Earlier, the United States put forward a motion to place Pakistan on aglobal terrorist-financing watch-list with an anti-money launderingmonitoring group.
The United States has been threatening to get tough with Islamabad over itsalleged ties with militants, and last month President Donald Trump’sadministration suspended aid worth about $2 billion.
Islamabad denies assisting militants in Afghanistan and India. A meeting ofFATF member states is due to take place next week in Paris, where theorganisation could adopt the motion on Pakistan.