Posted on 12/10/2008 6:19:30 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council has placed sanctions against Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a front organization for
Lashkar-e-Taiba, declaring it a terrorist organization.
The Council panel has designated four men linked to the Mumbai attacks as terrorists subject to sanctions.
The four men are believed to hold leadership positions in the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that is accused of orchestrating last month's attacks that left over 180 dead in Mumbai.
Designated as terrorists subject to UN sanctions were Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's operations chief; Muhammad Saeed, the group's leader; Haji Muhammad Ashraf, its chief of finance; and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a financier with the group.
The Security Council's al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions committee added them to its list of terrorists subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo under a council resolution adopted this year.
The US Treasury Department last week designated the men as terrorists and ordered any US assets frozen.
Earlier on Wednesday, in what is being read as the first sign of Pakistan wilting in the face of growing international pressure, Islamabad had said that it will ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) “the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been recruiting fidayeen killers like the captured terrorist Ajmal” if the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) declared JUD a terrorist outfit.
It's learnt the UNSC has already initiated the necessary steps to ban JUD and tighten the screws on its chief Hafiz Saeed, regarded as a key man behind the Mumbai carnage, who is wanted by India as a criminal terrorist. A Saeed-specific ban is also a certainty, said government sources.
Pakistan, which had denied the complicity of Lashkar in Mumbai attacks, had to make the statement about banning JUD at the UNSC because of the near-unanimity in the Security Council about JUD's involvement in terrorism. The UNSC move marked a global concert against Pakistan because of its failure to carry out its repeated pledges to India and others to crack down on terrorist camps.
``After the designation of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) under resolution 1267, the government on receiving communication from the Security Council shall proscribe the JUD and take other consequential actions, as required, including the freezing of assets,'' said Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Pakistan's permanent representative in the UN. Sources said that he gave an undertaking to the same effect to the world body on Tuesday.
Indian officials seemed satisfied with the impending ban on JUD by Pakistan.
Haroon also said that no LeT camp would be allowed to operate from Pakistan. Pakistan's NSA Mahmud Ali Durrani had reiterated on Wednesday that his country would follow all UN resolutions. ``We will follow any UN resolution. There should be no doubt. If our investigations prove the involvement of any organisation in Pakistan, we will definitely ban it,'' Durrani told a news channel.
Meanwhile, Pakistan PM Yousaf Raza Gilani confirmed on Wednesday that police had detained Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, the two members of LeT whom India has blamed for the attacks in Mumbai. He said that the allegations against them are being looked into.
Readers' Opinions
UN bans Jamaat-ud-Dawa; declares it a terror outfit
Sunil Sinha, US,says: United Nations is just a joke. These terror outfits still operate all the activities in the Pakistan in spite of ban and do have government connections, specially with the spy agency ISI. Pakistan is a lawless country.
[11 Dec, 2008 0656hrs IST]
Observer, Bangalore,says: These are naive measures from soft-toothed organizations like UN. These terrorists would have already cleaned up their assets and moved it to safety. Now a new organization will emerge The leadership of these organizations should be placed under arrest in the 'affected country'. How I wish these terrorists can confine their activities to within Pakistan!
[11 Dec, 2008 0649hrs IST]
Shaan Rait, Karachi,says: The only way to end terrorism is to divide pakistan and eliminate the Punjabi dominance of the Pakistani Army. That will end hatred towards India and other nations.
[11 Dec, 2008 0640hrs IST]
indian citizen, hyderabad,says: Can someone tell me how this would stop pakisthani terrorism .In no time they will change the name to a new org and do their evil activities like before. I dnt see any point unless they hand over the required terrosrists including dawood to india.It doesnt make any differnce for a common man like me.
[11 Dec, 2008 0640hrs IST]
Oh, noes! A sanction from the U.N.! Whatever will the terrorists do now?
YES!!! They are BANNED! And subject to sanctions!! Pwned by the UN! WOO HOO!! Go UN! Yeah!
That was sarcasm, right? Islamic terrorists don’t care what the U.N. thinks or does. Neither does anyone else, really.
Totally sarcasm. The UN is useless and a major waste of money.
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