TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ All properties of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its charity arm have been confiscated in PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan while 148 properties were seized in Punjab province during a crackdown on the two organisations, a senior Pakistani official has said.
Interior secretary Arshad Mirza told the Senate Committee on Interior that the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) had confiscated three immovable assets of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), including hospitals and dispensaries.
The meeting was presided over by Senator Rehman Malik. Mirza told the committee that the humanitarian organisation Pakistan Red Crescent had been directed to take over seven ambulances associated with the two organisations.
Previously, the committee had sought briefing by the Ministry of Interior and Foreign Affairs on what measures the government had taken in view of Pakistan’s placement on ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Mirza informed the panel that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the JuD and the FIF were on the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) sanction list as per its resolution number 1267.
Therefore, Pakistan was supposed to impose sanctions against the three outfits, he said. The Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) was also amended through a presidential order for taking action against the three organisations that had been declared proscribed by the UNSC, he added.
