JuD publications banned, 6 websites closed
Pakistan said on Thursday that its security forces had closed have training camps run by Lashkar-e-Toiba, the group blamed for the Mumbai attack, and arrested 124 of its leaders and those of a related charity, and added that Azhar Masood, chief of banned terror out?t Jaish-e-Mohammed, was not in the country.
Prime Minister’s adviser on interior affairs Rehman Malik told a press conference that the government launched a probe into the Mumbai attacks soon after the incident and as part ‘of our efforts we banned Jamaatud-Daawa (JuD) publications and shut down six websites and arrested 124 people for their involvement in militancy’.
Malik said that the law enforcing agencies throughout the country had arrested 124 people belonging to JuD including its chief Ha?z Saeed, Colonel (retired) Nazir Ahmed, Amir Hamza, the editor of Ghazwa, Mufti Abdul Rehman and Zakiur-Rehman Lakhvi.
He said that their publications - monthly Al-Dawa, Zarb-e-Taiba, weekly Ghazwa, Nane-Mujahid and Al-Rabita magazine - have also been banned.
The government has also closed down all websites of JuD including their main website www.jamatdawah.org that used to carry messages by the organisation’s leadership.
Malik said that 22 offices, two libraries, 87 schools, seven ma drasas and ?ve camps suspected to be used for training have been dismantled in Punjab. He said that Pakistan was taking action on information provided by India but ‘we should not be in a hurry’.
‘’Masood Azhar is not in Pakistan and we are also trying to locate him,’’ Malik said. He said that his government was committed to act against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks. He said that both Pakistan and India are nuclear states and need to act ‘with responsibility’.
The adviser with minister rank, who is considered a close con?dante of President Asif Ali Zardari, said that the government understands that the Indian government is under tremendous public pressure. Malik said Pakistan had assured India at every level of its ‘unconditional support to India in the Mumbai probe’. Agencies
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