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After Grey Listing For Terror Funding, Pakistan To Permanently Ban Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Swarajya Staff
Apr 08, 2018, 01:38 PM | Updated 01:37 PM IST
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After being put on notice by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the United Nations for not doing enough to curb terror funding, Islamabad is working on a bill that may lead to the permanent banning of Pakistan army-sponsored terror organisations like Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa, News18 has reported.
According to the report, the country’s government is also planning to prepare a database of terrorists and extremist outfits to stop terror funding.
The FATF, acting on a proposal introduced by the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, had placed Pakistan on the terror-financing grey list.
The new bill will replace the ordinance promulgated by Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussian in February to avoid grey listing. The Anti-Terrorism Act was amended by the President to include entities listed by the United Nations Security Council as proscribed groups, but it will expire in 120 days.
The bill is likely to be tabled in the National Assembly on Sunday. According to reports, the bill is being drafted with aid from the Pakistan Army.
This development comes just days after the Lahore high court ordered the Pakistan government to not harass Saeed and let him his 'social welfare activities'.
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