LHC Orders Release of Hafiz Saeed
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ul-Dawa had been under preventive detention days after the Mumbai attacks end November last year. The government had detained Hafiz Saeed vide United Nations Security Council Resolution No 1267. The resolution dealt with an arms embargo, freezing the guilty party’s assets, and banning them from travelling abroad, not detention. Apparently the release has come due to a technical point of absence of the mention of detention in the UN SC resolution. India, on the other hand, accuses Hafiz Saeed of being involved in Mumbai attacks.
Whether the gentleman is guilty or not, either way it speaks ill of our government for undesirably detaining a citizen under international pressure and being unable to justify the detention before the court. Punjab government has decided to challenge the LHC verdict in Supreme Court of Pakistan. Perhaps, there is some additional evidence which was kept away from LHC!
Labels: Hafiz Saeed, India, Jamaat-ul-Dawa, Judiciary, Justice, LHC, Mumbai Attacks
posted @ 11:59 AM,
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Banned Jamaat-ul-Dawa Resurfaces to Help IDPs
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JUD) was banned by Pakistan government once the organization was put under ban by UNO after the Mumbai Attacks. It has been reported by a section of media that the banned Jamaat-ul-Dawa has resurfaced under the name of some other organization and has established camps to help the IDPs of Swat region. Resurfacing of banned organizations under some other names is not a new phenomenon. The latest news, once, again, confirms government's inability to keep track of such like banned organizations. The violation of ban kills the very purpose of banning any organization.
Sympathizing with IDPs and helping them alleviate their sufferings is a noble cause but using the same to create pro Taliban sentiment with a view to recruit more Taliban is dangerous. Even if JUD and the likes are able to achieve fractional success in these attempts, the battle of winning minds and hearts of IDPs would be lost to a greater degree. IDPs are likely to be looked after better by JUD and the likes than the government agencies the propogation of which will result in psychological victory of these pro Taliban organizations.
Labels: Army Operation, IDPs, Jamaat-ul-Dawa, Refugees, SWAT
posted @ 12:27 PM,
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