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India-Pakistan
Al Rasheed Trust declared suspected terrorist organisation
2003-08-10
Pakistan has declared Al Rasheed Trust ‘an organisation suspected of terrorism’, possibly involved in Al Qaeda operations. Its name has been put on the United Nations Consolidated List under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
Finally got around to it, huh? Guess they've changed the letterhead and all the signs by now.
The notification follows a Sindh High Court verdict holding that the federal government and not the State Bank of Pakistan had the authority to classify the organisation. As a result the bank accounts of the organisation will not be defreezed. According to a notification dated August 7, 2003, the government had reasons to believe that Al Rasheed Trust was involved in terrorism. The Sindh High Court had declared on Monday that the State Bank of Pakistan’s direction to freeze the accounts of the trust with the foreign exchange branch of Habib Bank was unlawful. The court also ordered Habib Bank to honour the cheques drawn on the account and make payments accordingly.
Guess they got overturned. Doesn't hardly even pay to buy a judge anymore.
The trust has the largest relief network in the four provinces of Pakistan, the Northern Areas, Azad Kashmir and Afghanistan. It was established during the Afghan war by Maulana Abdul Rasheed of Karachi. After 9/11, the US had requested Pakistan include it in the list of organisations and individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. Seven Pakistani organisations have already been declared as terrorists.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  The Rashid trust published the newspapers of the Taliban called "Zarb-e-Momin", and was one of the main fronts for the funding of the Taliban and the Pak Jihadi parties.
It's founder was actually a Mufti Rashid Ahmed, who is one of the Deobandi 'elders' that collectively sit in one the Majlis-i-Shoora religous councils of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkut-ul Mujahideen and the JUI, among others. These important Mullahs, Muftis and Maulanas are the people who give religous legitimacy to the Jihadi militias and political parties that identify with the Deobandi sect, and arbitrate disputes between them.
Other elders include Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, Mufti Jamil Khan, Dr. Abdur Razaq, Dr. Sher Ali Shah and Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi (before he was assassinated).
This info is from an article on the background of the Jaish-e-Mohammad located here
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2003-8-10 12:56:57 AM  

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