TIL Desk/World/Lahore-Pakistan’s Punjab government has asked police to keep a close watch on the fundraising activities of JuD, led by Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, through charities at mosques and other places. Punjab Home Department has directed top officials of police to provide details of fundraising by Jamaat-ud-Dawah and other proscribed organisations as the activity is against the law.
According to the directive issued on Wednesday, JuD is making efforts to collect funds through fitrana, zakat and sadkaats (money given by Muslims as charity. It said that members of these organisations were more active during Ramazan and distributed pamphlets, put up posters at various locations in Matiari Sindh, inviting people to give them their charity money.
Saeed has been engaged in fundraising throughout the country via the organisation’s “charity wing” Falah-e-Insayat Foundation (FIF). FIF is closely connected to banned terrorist group LeT and its “humanitarian front” JUD and the US had designated the group’s chief Hafiz Abdur Rauf as a global terrorist in 2010.
