Islamabad: Pakistan has quietly banned Tehreek-e-Azaadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK), a new front for Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), as international pressure on the country grew, including from a global watchdog, to combat terror and its funding. Pakistan government has been under mounting international pressure to crackdown on terrorist networks and their fronts. The United Nations placed both JuD and FIF on its watch list in December 2008 and March 2012, respectively. The ban on TAJK on 8 June happened a day before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakh capital Astana. India had pushed the SCO members at the summit to curb the financing of terrorist organisations and their fronts.

Source: Mint July 01, 2017 10:07 UTC