Pak must enact legislation to proscribe Hafiz Saeed-led JuD: US

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ The United States has asked Pakistan to swiftly enact a legislation that formally proscribes both Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation, even as it criticised the recent removal of the ban on the two outfits which it said runs counter to Islamabad’s commitment to the FATF to fight terrorism.

The US said the removal of the ban on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation would jeopardise Pakistan’s ability to meet its commitments to fight terrorism under the United Nations Security Council resolution.”The expiration of the ban on JuD and FIF runs counter to Pakistan’s commitment to work with the Financial Action Task Force to address weaknesses in its counter-terrorism financing regime,” a State Department spokesperson said.

The spokesperson was responding to a question on the recent lapse of an ordinance issued by Pakistan’s president that led to lifting of the ban on the two outfits. Mumbai attack mastermind Saeed’s JuD and FIF are no longer on the list of banned outfits in Pakistan as the ordinance that proscribed them under a UN resolution has lapsed and the new Imran Khan-led government did not extend it, a Pakistani media report said last week.