"The Election Commission of Pakistain today rejected the registration request by the Milli Moslem League as a political party," Altaf Ahmad, front man for the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP), said on Wednesday.
Ahmad said a detailed order would be issued later stating the reasons for the commission's decision.
The MML was launched last August to contest the July elections. It was founded by Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) charity, a wing of the hard boy group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT).
The LeT is believed to have orchestrated the attacks in the Indian city in 2008, where over 160 people were killed.
Earlier this year, the United States added the MML along with Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAJK) to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO), reasoning that both were fronts for the banned outfit.
The United States offers the huge bounty in return for information that could lead to the conviction of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
, who heads the JuD. Washington says the JuD is a front for the LeT.
Much to the dismay of the United States and India, Pak officials have rejected calls for leveling charges against Saeed over the past years.
Consumed by years of unsuccessful anti-militant drive, Pakistain, sources say, has a general plan to de-radicalize hard boy-linked organizations and integrate them by bringing them into politics.
The ECP announcement on the MML would be a serious blow to such efforts that are believed to be led by the Pak military’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.
Saeed was sent to his room in January 2017 after years of living freely in Pakistain, but a court ordered his release in November 2017.