Despite a UN Security Council label terming it a terrorist organization and an ongoing crackdown on its offices and leaders, the Jamiat ud Da’wa (JuD) is yet to be banned by Pakistan. The dichotomous action on the other side of the border comes in wake of the terror attack on Mumbai.
Pakistan has, reportedly, sealed over 100 of JuD offices and more than 50 of its leaders have been arrested.
Eleven JuD operatives, including its chief Hafeez Saeed, are currently placed on the Exit Control List, which forbids them from leaving the country.
Holding that the JuD was a front for the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayeba (LeT), the UN Security Council on Wednesday acted on a request from India and the US and banned the organisation.
New Delhi has blamed the LeT for the November 26/11 attacks on Mumbai and the December 13, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament.
"There is no need to issue any such notification against the organisation once it is banned by the UN," Dawn on Sunday quoted a senior interior ministry official as saying.
Pakistan, he said, had not banned the JuD, but being a signatory to the UN charter, was obligated to implement the decisions of the world body.
Speaking of operations against the JuD, the official said so far 109 of its offices had been sealed across the country and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).
Meanwhile, legal experts say arrested JuD leaders were only being held in preventive detention they could take recourse to the law and could even be released.
"Preventive detention meant confinement of a person to stop him from committing an offence while at the time of detention there was no proof that he had committed a crime," The News quoted a constitutional expert as saying.
This meant that those held had the right to move the courts against their detentions, he added.
Pakistan has, reportedly, sealed over 100 of JuD offices and more than 50 of its leaders have been arrested.
Eleven JuD operatives, including its chief Hafeez Saeed, are currently placed on the Exit Control List, which forbids them from leaving the country.
Holding that the JuD was a front for the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayeba (LeT), the UN Security Council on Wednesday acted on a request from India and the US and banned the organisation.
New Delhi has blamed the LeT for the November 26/11 attacks on Mumbai and the December 13, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament.
"There is no need to issue any such notification against the organisation once it is banned by the UN," Dawn on Sunday quoted a senior interior ministry official as saying.
Pakistan, he said, had not banned the JuD, but being a signatory to the UN charter, was obligated to implement the decisions of the world body.
Speaking of operations against the JuD, the official said so far 109 of its offices had been sealed across the country and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).
Meanwhile, legal experts say arrested JuD leaders were only being held in preventive detention they could take recourse to the law and could even be released.
"Preventive detention meant confinement of a person to stop him from committing an offence while at the time of detention there was no proof that he had committed a crime," The News quoted a constitutional expert as saying.
This meant that those held had the right to move the courts against their detentions, he added.
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