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Pak freezes bank accounts of banned terror outfits: Report
Islamabad Nov 24: Pakistan has frozen the bank accounts of three renamed militant outfits, including that of Khuddam-ul-Islam, formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Islamabad Nov 24: Pakistan has frozen the bank
accounts of three renamed militant outfits, including that of
Khuddam-ul-Islam, formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammad.
The Pakistani Finance Ministry had been informed about
the decision to freeze the bank accounts of the terror groups
under provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act, said brigadier
Javed Cheema, chairman of the Interior Ministry's national
crisis management cell.
These outfits include Islami Tehrik-i-Pakistan (formerly
Tehrik-i-Jafaria Pakistan), Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan
(formerly Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan), Khuddam-ul-Islam (formerly
Jaish-i-Mohammad), Jamiat-ul-Ansar, Hizb-ul-Tehrir and
Jamaat-ul-Furqan.
Cheema said the provincial governments too had been
directed to check the printing of any publication of the
banned terror groups.
Earlier reports said that most of the organisations have
withdrawn the money from their accounts well before the
government decision to freeze them.
Pakistan, on Tuesday last, banned six terror groups which
were renamed versions of the militant outfits which were
already banned last year.
"It is obvious that when all activities of these
organisations have been banned, printing of their publications
has also been prohibited," Cheema was quoted as saying by the
local daily The Dawn here today.
Bureau Report