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India-Pakistan
Centre declares Hafiz Saeed's son terrorist
2022-04-10
[GREATERKASHMIR] In a significant move, the Central government has declared Talha Saeed, the son of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
 (JuD) leader 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. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, as a terrorist for plotting against India and provoking the youth to pick up arms to carry out terror activities.

According to an order issued by the Centre, Talha Saeed has been actively visiting various 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) centres across Pakistain and during his sermons, he propagates jihad against India, Israel, the US and Indian interests in other western countries.

Hafiz Talha Saeed, the son of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, is a big shot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and is the head of the holy man wing of the LeT.

Related:
Hafiz Talha Saeed: 2018-06-23 Hafiz Saeed's son, son-in-law to contest NA seats from Punjab
Hafiz Talha Saeed: 2002-07-27 Jihadis starting to worry about Hafiz Saeed's detention...
Related:
Talha Saeed: 2018-06-23 Hafiz Saeed's son, son-in-law to contest NA seats from Punjab
Talha Saeed: 2012-08-31 US slaps sanctions on 8 LeT leaders including 26/11 mastermind
Talha Saeed: 2011-09-03 Pakistani held for backing Lashkar
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India-Pakistan
US offers new $5 million reward for capture of Mumbai attackers
2018-11-26
[IsraelTimes] Ten years after deadly assault left 166 dead, including several Israelis at Chabad house, secretary of state urges Pakistain to bring planners to justice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged Pakistain to take action against those responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks as Washington offered a new reward of $5 million for helping secure their capture.

The announcement came on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the assault, which left 166 people dead and hundreds injured after Islamist murderous Moslems from Pakistain unleashed a wave of violence across India’s financial capital lasting three days.

"It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," Pompeo said in a statement.

"We call upon all countries, particularly Pakistain, to uphold their UN Security Council obligations to implement sanctions against the hard boyz responsible for this atrocity, including 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...
 and its affiliates."

"We stand with the families and friends of the victims, whose loved ones were lost in this act of barbarism, including six American citizens," he added.

Also among those killed were a number of Israelis during an assault and standoff at a Mumbai Chabad house.


The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program meanwhile said it was offering up to $5 million "for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired to commit, or aided or abetted" the execution of the attack.

It is the third such reward offered by the US after the State Department announced bounties of $10 million for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, another big shot of the group.

Saeed, who is also designated a terrorist by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
, has denied involvement in terrorism and the Mumbai attacks.

A party linked to the charitable wing of the LeT contested Pakistain’s national elections in July, failing to win any seats but winning more than 435,000 national and regional votes.
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India-Pakistan
Hafiz Saeed challenges ordinance banning JuD
2018-03-11
[DAWN] Hearing a petition filed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
 (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed challenging the presidential ordinance under which his group has been banned for being on the watchlist of the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
, Justice Aamer Farooq of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday issued notices to the principal secretary to the president and the secretaries of law, Cabinet Division and Establishment Division.

President Mamnoon Hussain last month promulgated an ordinance amending the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 with regards to proscription of terrorist individuals and organizations to include entities listed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) ‐ in a move to declare 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...
-linked JuD and Falah-e-Insaniyat
...the current false nose and mustache of Jamaat ud-Dawa, which was the false nose and mustache of Lashkar e-Taiba...
 Foundation (FIF) as proscribed groups.

The ordinance amends Sections 11-B and 11-EE of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (XXVII of 1997). Section 11-B sets parameters for proscription of groups, whereas 11-EE describes the grounds for listing of individuals.

Both sections would now include Sub-Section ’aa’, according to which organizations and individuals "listed under the United Nations (Security Council) Act, 1948 (XIV of 1948), or" will be included in the First Schedule (for organizations) and Fourth Schedule (for individuals), respectively, on an ex-parte basis.

Under Section 11-EE, the requirements were: "(a) concerned in terrorism; (b) an activist, office-bearer or an associate of an organization kept under observation under section 11D or proscribed under section 11B; and (c) in any way concerned or suspected to be concerned with such organization or affiliated with any group or organization suspected to be involved in terrorism or sectarianism or acting on behalf of, or at the direction of, any person or organization proscribed under this Act."

Hafiz Saeed contended in the petition that he established JuD in 2002 and cut off all ties with the banned 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) but India continued to malign JuD for its past association with the banned outfit.

The petitioner said he was twice ‐ in 2009 and 2017 ‐ kept in detention due to India’s pressure. He added that the UNSC passed a resolution against JuD after which the government of Pakistain kept it in the watchlist.

The JuD chief termed it against the illusory sovereignty of Pakistain that an ordinance was issued to ban his organization.

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Afghanistan
Pakistan Ulema Chief criticizes President Ghani and Afghan Uelmas
2018-01-24
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chairman of the Pakistain Ulema Council Hafiz Mohammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi has harshly criticized the Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
 and the members of the Afghan Ulemas Council as relations remain strained between the two neighboring countries over the circumstances surrounding the fight against the terror.

According to the local media report, Mr. Ashrafi has criticized the Afghanistan's Caped President for his stance against Pakistain and for hurling allegations regarding the safe havens of the terror groups.

Ashraf has reportedly said that the Afghanistan's Caped President should take actions against the Afghan Uelmas for their failure to issue proper Fatwas in accordance with the situation of the country.

He also slammed the Afghan Ulemas for their stance against Pakistain and has accused them of issuing Jihad (Holy War) Fatwa against Pakistain.

This comes as the Afghanistan's Caped President had earlier reacted at the Fatwa issued by the Pak Ulemas in which they had called armed insurgency and suicide kabooms as illegitimate inside Pakistain.

President Ghani said last week that the principles of Islam applies around the globe and all Islamic nations which was supposed to cover Afghanistan as well and cannot be limited to a specific geography.

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India-Pakistan
Man absolved of blasphemy charges after nine years in prison
2017-12-30
[DAWN] A man accused of blasphemy won freedom on Friday after spending over nine years in jail.

The Supreme Court absolved the 58-year-old of the blasphemy charges for want of evidence.

Police incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
 him on Sept 29, 2008 for allegedly desecrating pages of the Holy Koran in a mosque in the Sadiq Gunj area of Bahawalnagar and started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 295-B of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).

Suffering from hearing and speech impairments, Akhtar Mohammad had reported the incident to Imam Hafiz Mohammad Munir who informed the local panchayat, where the suspect was beaten up and later handed over to police.

The police filed a charge sheet against him before the Bahawalnagar district and sessions judge who sentenced the man to life imprisonment in 2009.

The Lahore High Court upheld the sentence in 2014. The Supreme Court took up the case the same year and provided the accused a state counsel as he could not afford a lawyer.

During the hearing on Friday, the defence counsel pointed out that the prosecution evidence produced against the accused was not in accordance with the Evidence Act. He argued that the star witness in the case was a person suffering from hearing and speech impairments and, therefore, could not even be termed a witness under the Evidence Act.

The counsel contended that investigation into the incident did not fulfil the mandatory requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code.

After hearing the arguments, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dost Mohammad and Justice Qazi Faez Isa absolved the accused of the blasphemy charges with the observation that the person who falsely accused others of desecration of the Holy Koran and revered personalities in fact committed blasphemy.
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India-Pakistan
Hafiz Saeed set to be freed after LHC turns down extension in detention order
2017-11-23
[DAWN] A review board comprising judges of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday refused to extend the detention orders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
’s (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.

His current house arrest is going to expire on Nov 24 (Friday).

The review board under the chair of Justice Abdul Sami Khan passed these orders after a senior finance ministry official failed to convince the board that the release of Saeed would bring diplomatic and financial problems to the country.

During the last hearing, the government while seeking extension in the detention orders had argued that Saeed could not be released because the move would result in financial sanctions and a halt in foreign funding to the country. In response, the board had directed the government to send an official from the finance ministry to explain how release of a single individual would affect the entire country.
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan: Election Commission Denies Registration Of Party With Ties To Lashkar-e-Taiba
2017-10-13
[WORLDVIEW.STRATFOR] Pakistain's Election Commission banned on Oct. 11 the Milli Moslem League (MML) from registering as an official political party, Hindustan Times reported. The MML is a new political party backed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, chief of 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...
 ‐ a terrorist group that has been blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. Saeed is under house arrest and has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. The head of the Election Commission told MML attorneys that because the party has ties to Lion of Islam groups, it cannot be registered.
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India-Pakistan
Hafiz Saeed's house arrest extended for two more months
2017-08-01
[DAWN] The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Government on Monday issued a notification to extend the house arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
 (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed for two more months.

The JuD chief had been sent to his room on January 31 for 90 days. Subsequently, his house arrest was extended for another three months. The extended house arrest was going to expire on July 27, but has now been extended for two more months.

The notification, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, reads that the Counter Terrorism Department has reported that "keeping in view the expected release of the said activist and other leaders of the said organization, workers of the organization have planned to spread chaos in the country."

The notification, signed by Punjab Additional Chief Secretary (Home) retired Major Azam SLearned Elders of Islamn, further reads that "on release, he (Saeed) is likely to glorify his activities for the said organization and continuation of his activities are likely to create unrest in public."

Other members of the JuD -- including Abdullah Ubaid, Abdul Rehman Abid, Zafar Iqbal and Qazi Kashif Niazi of Multan, who handles JuD’s publications -- were also taken into 'protective custody' in January.

The JuD and the Falah-e-Insaaniat Founda­tion (FIF), a charity organization affiliated with the JuD, had been included in the Second Schedule and were placed on the government’s watch list for six months under Section (1) 11EEE of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 in January. The names of several JuD leaders had also been placed on the Exit Control List.

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India-Pakistan
Previous PPP govt blamed for not acting against JuD
2017-02-03
[DAWN] The government has accused the previous government of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) of not taking required actions under the 2008 United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
 resolution designating 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...
’s organization as a terrorist outfit.

"As a matter of record, the actions taken by the government of Pakistain have been carried out as per obligations vis-à-vis listing of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
 under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008," says an unnamed spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior in a statement here on Wednesday which the ministry apparently released in reaction to a statement of India’s Ministry of External Affairs regarding the detention of JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
.

"Various actions that needed to be taken under the relevant resolution, i.e. arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze, were not carried out for some reasons by the previous governments," the spokesperson said without naming the PPP.

The spokesperson said that Pakistain did not need any certification or endorsement from India over the recent actions it had taken in relation to Hafiz Saeed.

India had constantly been using Hafiz Saeed’s political activities as a tool to malign Pakistain, the statement said. "The international community should take note and understand that Pakistain is a democratic society where judiciary takes free, independent and transparent decisions," it said.

"If indeed, India is serious about its allegations, it should come up with concrete evidence against Hafiz Mohammad Saeed which is sustainable in court of law in Pakistain or for that matter anywhere in the world," the spokesperson said, adding: "Mere casting aspersions and levelling allegations without any corroborating evidence would not help the cause of peace in the region."

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India-Pakistan
Five suspected foreign trained militants arrested in Karachi
2016-09-06
KARACHI: Police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have arrested five suspects involved in sectarian killings in the metropolis.

Speaking at press conference at CTD Civil Lines, the senior officer claimed the held suspects were involved in killings of religious scholars, doctors and prominent personalities on sectarian grounds and were planning to target ‘prominent religious scholars’ before Eidul Azha.

"They were allegedly involved in targeted killings of Mufti Ghulam Akbar, Mufti Kamran Husain, Hafiz Mohammad Sajid, Dr. Fazlur Rehman, Maulana Yasir and others."

"Arrested suspects are foreign trained," additional inspector general of police, CTD, Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi said.

“Karachi has become a battlefield for proxy war of foreign countries who wanted to destabilise Pakistan generally and Karachi particularly,” elaborated the counter-terror force chief.

Abbasi said the CTD has “spotted” such elements who planned to recruit the people and send them abroad for training.

"One of the suspect's is a master mind of sectarian killings," he claimed, adding that he was born in Sukkur and migrated to Karachi and has done his masters in economics.

Sharing the initial investigation report of the held suspects, the CTD Sindh chief said that the gang of militants had killed Hafiz Sajid, owner of My Choice Bakery in Shah Faisal Colony, because the victim had served as a “guard” of Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi.

He further added the suspects had also recently gunned down Mufti Kamran and Mufti Ghulam Akbar inside a seminary in Gulshan-i-Iqbal who were affiliated with the banned Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat

The suspects also confessed to their involvement in killing of homeopathic doctor Fazlur Rehman recently in the Landhi area over sectarian ground.

Moreover, the suspects were also involved in the murder of Maulana Habib Rehman, who was gunned down in Gulistan-i-Jauhar earlier this year.

The held suspects have also revealed their involvement in targeting Maulana Muhammad Yasir last year in February in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

This gang of sectarian militants was also involved in targeted killings of two brothers, identified as Mohammad Tauseef and Mohammad Tanveer who were “active” members of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in Khokhrapar.

Earlier in 2013, the suspects also gunned down Esa Baloch near Russian consulate in Clifton over suspicion of him being affiliated with Jundullah.

Furthermore, this group targeted Qari Ghulam Sarwar outside a seminary in Block-19, F B Area in limits of Samanabad police in “revenge” of killing of Allama Taqi Hadi in year 2013, revealed the CTD Sindh head.

Earlier in year 2012, the gang members also gunned down Muhammad Imran in New Karachi who was associated with banned Sipah Sahaba Pakistan.
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India-Pakistan
Former NADRA official arrested in connection with Mullah Mansour ID: FIA
2016-06-01
[DAWN] QUETTA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 former assistant director National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Ghulam Muhammad Bugti for suspected involvement in the issuance of identification papers to former Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour.
Gee golly gosh shucks. You don't suppose Mullah Haibatullah has a secret identity in Pak, do you? Or Zawahiri?
Officials recovered a Pak identity card and passport under the alias Wali Muhammad from the site of the American drone strike which killed the Taliban chief earlier this month in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
. Mansour's ID card was renewed in 2012.

Ghulam Bugti, who retired in 2007, had played an important role in issuing an NIC to Mansour in 2002, FIA sources said.

Bugti has been shifted to FIA's regional office for interrogation. "The scope of investigation is being widened", an FIA officer who declined to be named told DawnNews.

Domicile issued in Killa Abdullah
Mullah Mansour was issued a domicile from the province’s Killa Abdullah district in 1999. He had portrayed himself as Muhammad Wali, a resident of Chaman belonging to the Kakar tribe.

FIA obtained the copy of the domicile and have launched an inquiry against the then Deputy Commissioner (DC) Killa Abdullah Hafiz Mohammad Tahir. The DC is like to be arrested, sources in FIA told DawnNews.

Following the incident, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar ordered a probe to find out how identification documents had been granted to the former Taliban chief.

NADRA has also launched an investigation into nearly 2.5 million families across the country in the aftermath of the drone strike.

Earlier this week, FIA arrested former assistant commissioner Qila Abdullah Rafiq Tareen for verifying Mullah Akhtar Mansour's passport, in addition to three NADRA officials in Qila Abdullah and Quetta for issuing Mansour's NIC.

Former deputy commissioner Qila Abdullah Hafiz Muhammad Tahir is also being interrogated by the FIA in relation to the case of Mansour's ID documents.
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India-Pakistan
Two officials face probe over Mansour’s ID papers
2016-05-28
[DAWN] Pishin’s Deputy Commissioner Hafiz Mohammad Tahir and Tehsil­dar Rafiq Tareen have been shifted to Islamabad from Quetta in connection with an investigation into verification of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour’s applications for Pak national identity card and passport.

Interior Minister Chau­dhry Nisar Ali Khan had iss­ued directives for the shifting of the two officials. They were brought to Islamabad on the PIA’s flight PK-352 on Thurs­day night by an FIA team.

Hafiz Tahir had verified the applications of Mullah Mansour using the name of Wali Mohammad while he was serving in Chaman as deputy commissioner.

An interior ministry spokesperson told Dawn that Hafiz Tahir had been summoned to Islamabad, but Rafiq Tareen had been jugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
 by the FIA team for investigation into the matter.
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