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Pakistan today banned Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation from collecting donations.
The notification comes on a day when President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to the US but “lies and deceit” and providing “safe haven” to terrorists.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) issued a notification prohibiting the collection of donations by the JuD, the front organisation of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, as well as several other such organisations named in a list of banned outfits by the UN Security Council.
In addition to JuD, the list also includes LeT itself, the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), the Paasban-i-Ahle-Hadith and Pasban-i-Kashmir, among others.
The JuD is the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack.It has been declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in June 2014.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has responded to Mr Trump’s tweet. He was quoted by Geo TV as saying that the United States should hold its own people accountable for its failures in Afghanistan.