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Pakistan over Terrorist Organisations
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- Facing severe pressure from the Financial Action Task Force, and calls from a number of countries to crack down on terror groups, the Pakistan government passed an order to effectively ban Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offshoots Jamat-ud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF).
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- India sceptical about ban:(1) India is sceptical about the move, given Pakistan’s attempts to ban these groups in the past, only to drop the ban over a period of time.(2) In February 2018, the Pakistani government had passed a similar order as a Presidential Ordinance, but then allowed it to lapse six months later.(3) India said the decision was part of a “decade old fraud” by Islamabad, to pass SROs that are not prosecutable in courts and do not place any liability on the government authority that doesn’t implement the orders.
- What SRO by Pakistan says?: Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) passed says all “properties owned or controlled, wholly or partly, directly or indirectly, by a designated entity or designated individual” and any income from the assets including rent would be frozen or physically seized by the Pakistani authorities.
- Streamlining the banning of groups: Islamabad said it will “streamline” the banning of groups that have been proscribed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and ensure that all entities banned by UNSC 1267 Committee in particular will have their assets frozen.
- Listing status of terrorist organisations:(1) The JuD and FiF were listed by the UNSC as aliases for the Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) that was banned in May 2005.(2) However, Pakistan only had them on a watch list (Schedule-2) not the banned list (Schedule-1).(3) Both the LeT and the Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e Mohammad (JeM) are amongst the 68 organisations presently on the list of proscribed organisations maintained by the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NATCA) of Pakistan.
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The Hindu