WASHINGTON: The United Nations Security Council’s consolidated list ofterrorist individuals and entities includes 139 entries from Pakistan, Dawnhas reported.
The list — updated and accessed on Tuesday — identifies all thoseindividuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have beenassociated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out theiroperations, from Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri to known Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) activists.
The first person on the list is Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s heirapparent. The UN data claims that he is still hiding somewhere “in theAfghanistan-Pakistan border area”. Several of his lieutenants are also onthe list who, the UN believes, are hiding with him.
The second person on the list is another internationally known terrorist,Ramzi Mohammad bin al-Sheibah, who is identified as a Yemeni national,arrested in Karachi and handed over to the US authorities.
Hafiz Saeed listed as a person wanted by Interpol for involvement interrorist activities
More than a dozen suspected terrorists are listed in the same category,arrested in Pakistan and handed over to the US authorities. Some of themhad Pakistani passport, issued by various Pakistani missions in the MiddleEast and renewed in Pakistan.
The list also includes Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, an Indian national who,according to the UN Security Council, has held several Pakistani passportsissued in Rawalpindi and Karachi. The UN claims that he owns a “palatialbungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad, Karachi”.
LeT’s Hafiz Mohammad Saeed is listed as a person also wanted by Interpolfor his involvement in terrorist activities. Haji Mohammed Yahya Mujahid,LeT’s media contact, and Hafiz Saeed’s deputies, Abdul Salaam and ZafarIqbal, are listed under him. Like Hafiz Saeed, they are all wanted byInterpol.
LeT is listed with its various aliases, such as al-Mansoorian,Paasban-i-Kashmir, Paasban-i-Ahle Hadith, Jamaatud Dawa andFalah-i-Insaniat Foundation.
Terrorist entities that were allegedly based in Pakistan, worked from thereor had links to Pakistani individuals, include Al Rasheed Trust, HarkatulMujahideen, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Wafa Humanitarian Organisation,Jaish-e-Mohammed, Rabita Trust, Ummah Tameer-i-Nau, Afghan SupportCommittee, Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi,Al-Harmain Foundation, Islamic Jihad Group, Al Akhtar Trust International,Harkatul Jihad Islami, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaatul Ahrar andKhatiba Imam Al-Bukhari.
Some of them are listed as based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area.