Islamabad, August 5
In a major development, the Pakistan government on Wednesday banned 25 religious and other organisations, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashker-e-Toiba. India has been demanding action against the JuD, LeT and JeM, which it blames for carrying out several attacks on its soil, including the Mumbai attacks and the 2001 assault on the Parliament.

The Pakistan government has linked a majority of the outlawed groups to terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan.

While presenting a list of the banned organisations in the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan Parliament, the Interior Ministry stated that the Sunni Tehrik had been put on a watch list.

The list of organisations included outlawed groups like JuD, LeT, JeM, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muahammadi, Al-Akhtar Trust, Al-Rasheed Trust, Tehreek-e-Islami, Islamic Students Movement, Khair-un-Nisa International Trust, Islami Tehreek-e-Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-un-Nisar, Khadam Islam and Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan.

“The list was submitted in a reply to a question raised in the Lower House regarding the banned organisations. This is a whole list and contains the names of bodies recently banned by the present government for some evidence of them having been involved in anti-state activities,” a CNN-IBN news channel report quoted Hasan as saying on Wednesday. — ANI