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All Terrorist Sanctuaries, Including KP Government Seals Offices

Haqqani Network, Eliminated: DG ISPR of Hafiz Saeed’s JuD & FIF

Peshawar: The Khyber Pakh-
tunkhwa government on Satur-
day initiated a crackdown against
Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa
(JuD) and its humanitarian wing,
Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation
(FIF), by seizing the organizations’
offices and taking over the latter’s
operational setup.
Peshawar’s district adminis-
tration, with the help of police and
other law enforcement agencies,
had initiated action against the
JuD in the provincial capital after
receiving directions from the fed-
eral government.
“We have sealed the offices of
the foundation, seized three reli-
gious schools and two mosques
and handed over the seized prop-
erties to the Auqaf department to
look after operational matters,” a
senior official told DawnNewsTV. ment, the KP government had
The move came after the Se- sealed and seized the offices and
“Pakistan has paid a huge price in this campaign, including losing over 75,000 lives and bearing a loss of more than $123 curities and Exchange Commis- ambulances of FiF in different dis-
billion to the national exchequer,” Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major-General Asif Ghafoor said sion of Pakistan (SECP) issued a tricts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
notification asking citizens to not “A health facility in Balakot
Islamabad: Inter Services Public Pak-Afghan border with the con- the Indo-Pak relationship, all issues, donate to organizations listed on a and office in Abbottabad has been
Relations (ISPR) Director Gen- struction of new posts along the including the core issue of Kashmir United Nations Security Council sealed and ambulances have been
eral Major-General Asif Ghafoor border to deny free cross-border between the two nuclear-armed (UNSC) list of proscribed organi- seized and parked in police sta-
said on Sunday that sanctuaries of movement of terrorists. countries, need to be resolved, he zations. tions,” he said.
all terrorists groups, including the “Besides military operations, stressed. The UNSC sanctions list in- Hafiz Saeed, who in Novem-
Haqqani network, have been elimi- Pakistan has also undertaken major Commenting on the security cludes al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Tali- ber last year was set free from a
nated from Pakistan’s soil. socio-economic development proj- situation in Afghanistan, Maj-Gen ban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, 300-day-long house arrest, has
“Pakistan has paid a huge price ects in cleared areas to carry for- Ghafoor said the current violence JuD, FiF and other organizations. been repeatedly accused by the US
in this campaign, including los- ward relative stability to enduring inside the country should not be After JuD and FiF were placed and India of masterminding the
ing over 75,000 lives and bearing a peace,” he said. linked to Pakistan. on the UNSC list, the interior 2008 attacks on the Indian finan-
loss of more than $123 billion to the On the possibility of peace be- He said the ungoverned spaces ministry had written to the prov- cial capital that killed 166 people.
national exchequer,” he said while tween India and Pakistan, he said inside Afghanistan would have to be inces asking them to take action. Saeed was declared a global
speaking to the Gulf News. India was not only challenging cleared by the Afghan and the US- Malik Nadeem Awan, a cen- terrorist by the US and UN over
The DG ISPR said the op- Pakistan conventionally along the led international forces to ensure tral leader of JuD, told DawNew- his alleged role in the Mumbai at-
eration Radd-ul-Fasaad has been eastern borders, but was also busy peace in Afghanistan. sTV that after the Punjab govern- tacks.
launched to eliminate the remaining in fomenting unrest through terror- On the China-Pakistan Eco-
disorganized residual militants. The ism using the Afghan soil. nomic Corridor (CPEC), Gha- Court Orders Arrest of TLP Chief
recent military offensives against The arrest of Kulbhushan Jad- foor said enemies of peace and of
the terrorists have visibly reduced hav, a self-confessed RAW agent, Pakistan were trying to scuttle the
the level of violence throughout the in Pakistan was testament to India’s multi-billion dollar project. How- vices Intelligence’s (ISI) report on
country, he added. interference in Pakistan’s internal ever, Pakistan would go to any ex- the Faizabad sit-in, calling it “unsat-
Maj. Gen Ghafoor said that affairs, he added. tent to foil their nefarious designs, isfactory”.
over 200,000 Pakistani troops have “Pakistan is a peaceful country he added. “This report is deeply unset-
been deployed along the Pak-Af- and doesn’t want conflict with any- The DG ISPR said that the Pak- tling: it has been prepared by one of
ghan border in the Federally Ad- one. However, our desire for peace istan Army is responsible for the the premier agencies of the country,
ministered Tribal Areas (Fata). He should never be construed as our security of the project, which would yet a journalist could have given
said Pakistan has also started to weakness,” said the DG ISPR. serve as a catalyst for progress not more details [about the protests]
fence the entire 2,611-km length of For bringing normality into only of Pakistan but the region. than this report,” Justice Qazi Faez
Isa said after reviewing the docu-
Former PM Manmohan Singh Blames Modi Government ment.
Justice Isa is part of a two-
for Deteriorating Situation in India-Held Kashmir member SC bench, along with Jus-
tice Musheer Alam, which has been
New Delhi: Former Indian premier “Our borders are not secure,” hearing a suo motu case regarding
Manmohan Singh on Sunday held Singh said. “Cross-border terrorism, the use of abusive language during
the right-wing Narendra Modi-led internal terrorism, internal insur- the sit-in and the difficulties caused
government responsible for the gency; they are today issues which to residents of the capital by the
worsening situation in India-held are a source of great worry to all our Islamabad: An Anti-Terrorism roadblocks placed by the agitators.
Kashmir (IHK), NDTV reported. citizens as the Modi government Court (ATC) in Islamabad on Mon- During the hearing, Justice Isa
There has been a noticeable in- has not found a way of tackling this day ordered the arrests of Tehreek- said that the ISI — just like the judi-
crease in violence in IHK since Mo- problem.” i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) Khadim ciary — was “answerable to taxpay-
di’s hardline Bharatiya Janata Party Hussain Rizvi, Pir Afzal Qadri and ers”.
(BJP) came into power. The Indian Doctors from other absconding suspects in a case The court asked the deputy at-
army’s crackdown on protests and Punjab, Army to pertaining to the Faizabad sit-in torney general, who submitted the
separatist movements in Kashmir Examine Sharjeel held last year. report, if he was satisfied with it, to
have led to more riots. Militancy in The ATC ordered their arrests which the latter replied in the affir-
held Kashmir has increased since the Karachi: The Supreme Court on after they failed to appear before the mative.
Indian army killed a popular com- Saturday formed a new medical court despite being issued multiple The bench then pointed out
mander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, board comprising neurosurgeons summons. that the report did not even specify
Burhan Wani, in 2016. from Punjab and Army besides a The ATC had previously issued the source of Rizvi’s income.
Speaking at the Indian National private medical university to ex- non-bailable arrest warrants for Riz- When Justice Isa inquired fur-
Congress plenary session in New Indian general election. Due to the amine interned leader of the Paki- vi and other clerics after they did not ther about Rizvi’s occupation, he
Delhi, Singh said: “India must rec- ideological differences between both stan Peoples Party Sharjeel Inam respond to various summons. was told that the TLP chief was a
ognize the problems in Jammu and parties, the “two wings of adminis- Memon, facing trial in a Rs5.76 bil- The police were separately or- “religious lecturer”.
Kashmir and ensure that these prob- tration” were working against each lion corruption case. dered to submit their final challan in The explanation was offered
lems are tackled and sorted”. other. Headed by Chief Justice of Paki- the next hearing of the case, which by Col Falak Naz, who was repre-
The former Indian PM claimed The PDP, as opposed to its rul- stan Mian Saqib Nisar, the three- has been scheduled for April 4. senting the Defense Ministry in the
that the reason behind the situation ing ally, emphasizes holding dialogue member SC bench was hearing a suo The Faizabad sit-in, organized hearing.
in Kashmir - which he said was “de- with separatists to reach a solution motu case regarding shifting of the by politico-religious parties in No- “Is ‘religious lecturer’ a profes-
teriorating day in and day out” - was to the growing unrest in the region. former information minister from vember 2017, had disrupted life in sion?” Justice Isa asked, before turn-
the alliance between the BJP and the The BJP, however, advocates use of the Karachi central prison to a hos- the twin cities for at least 20 days. ing to Rizvi’s tax status and bank
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) force to suppress negative sentiment pital for treatment. Earlier in the day, the Supreme account.
which was formed after the 2014 against the Indian government. SHARJEEL, P29 Court (SC) had rejected Inter-Ser- ARREST, P28
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