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Pakistan 'gave funds' to group on UN terror blacklist
bbc ^ | 6/16/10 | staff

Posted on 06/16/2010 12:33:55 PM PDT by Nachum

Pakistan's Punjab province government gave about $1m (£674,000) last year to institutions linked to a charity on a UN terror blacklist, it has emerged.

The charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, denies accusations that it is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.

Punjab officials say the funds were humanitarian in nature and were not given directly to the charity.

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KEYWORDS: funds; gave; pakistan; terror

1 posted on 06/16/2010 12:33:56 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Pakistan has been doing this sort of thing forever. Why, Gilani - the “owner” of al fuqra and involved with Daniel Pearl’s murder - is a hi-level Pak government critter and behind Pakistan’s military strategy against India in Kashmir.


2 posted on 06/16/2010 1:33:30 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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