Hamad Azhar among 44 members of banned organisations taken in 'preventive detention'

[Shot-Caller]

You are losing some of the best and most dedicated people with grass roots support.

Besides, they are even probably innocent anyway.

So you believe they are innocent and want us to keep supporting them?

 

[mzain]

No use in having this mullah tola outside bringing bad name to Pakistan. Its better they are behind bars

But doing it right now means we are accepting our involvement

 

[mzain]

To give Modi something to boost about, show the world we are willing to act, and to de-escalate tensions and return to fixing our economy.

But doing it right now means we are accepting our involvement

 

[Rusty]

These guys needed to cleaned up sooner or later.

No one will invest in your country of you have armed thugs running around.

 

[Imran Khan]

paksitan should not take this burden now anymore man . i think we have did enough .

 

[koolio]

PTM should be have been the first group to be banned along with traitor Achakzai who should be locked behind bars for anti state activities.

 

[Baghial]

Hamad Azhar among 44 members of banned organisations taken in 'preventive detention'

Shakeel Qarar | Dawn.comUpdated March 05, 2019
Facebook Count40
Twitter Share
0

Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi and Ministry of Interior Secretary Azam Suleman Khan hold press conference on Tuesday. — DawnNewsTV

Forty four under-observation members of proscribed organisations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar — the former believed to be the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar and the latter his son — have been taken in preventive detention for investigation, said officials of Ministry of Interior on Tuesday.

"In order to implement National Action Plan (NAP), a high-level meeting was held in the Ministry of Interior on March 4, attended by all representatives of all provincial governments," said a statement by the ministry. "These actions will continue, as per the decisions taken in National Security Committee (NSC) while reviewing NAP."

This was also confirmed by Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi and Ministry of Interior Secretary Azam Suleman Khan at a press conference on Tuesday.

"This is across the board — we don't want to give the impression that we are against one organisation," said Khan while talking to the media.

ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD
He acknowledged that some people who have been detained — including Raoof and Azhar — are named in the dossier handed by India to Pakistan on the Pulwama attack. "It does not mean that action is being taken against only those individuals who are mentioned in the dossier."

India blames Pakistan for the suicide bombing in Pulwama that killed over 40 soldiers in India-occupied Kashmir. Pakistan, from the get-go, rejected the Indian claim, urging New Delhi to share "actionable evidence" so that it could take act upon it.

"We won't allow the use of our soil against any country," said Afridi, stressing on the fact that none of the actions were taken under any kind of pressure and that it was Pakistan's own decision to take these measures.

"This is Pakistan's decision [...] the action will continue for two weeks. Every single detail will be shared with all stakeholders," said Afridi.

Masood Azhar, the chief of JeM, is in Pakistan, said Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in an interview last week. Both Raoof and Hamad Azhar are said to be related to him.

The government on Monday notified a 2019 order of the United Nations Security Council that would provide a legal basis for freezing or seizure of properties owned by individuals and organisations designated by the council as terrorists.

“The Federal Government issued the United Nations Security Council (Freezing and Seizure) Order, 2019 in accordance with the provisions of Pakistan’s United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Act, 1948 (Act No. XIV of 1948),” the Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement issued to the media.

The order was issued to meet the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regarding the implementation of designation of persons and entities under the UNSC resolutions. Pakistan, despite making some progress in overcoming the shortcomings in its counterterrorism financing and anti-money laundering regimes, continues to remain under the cloud at the global illicit financing watchdog.

After failing to adequately convince the FATF, Pakistan is now required to complete actions it has to take by the May timeline. The next FATF plenary is due in June this year.

This is a developing story.

Every thing that india has demanded is being done..
Then the PTI govt says . Its routine preventive arrests...
I was of impression that nawaja was gut less PM. but imran is no different...
Lots of bla bla but i reality he chickened out on modi.s empty threats...
Many on pdf will say im from noon league.. .. but i hate the baboons nawaz or imran same lot....
But when ever the army is wining against india.. our politicians stab them i n the back..just to stay in power..

 

[Longhorn]

The PM asked India to provide evidence of involvement. The Indians provided a dossier. Arrests are being made. An investigation will be conducted. If the people under investigation are found to be involved there will be prosecutions. If the defendants are found guilty then they will be punished, if they are found to be innocent they will be released. Everybody will be happy.
It is in our own interests to eliminate elements that affect and complicate our foreign policy against the wishes of the government. This is long overdue and it will solve myriad problems and obstacles to progress.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

These men are innocent.

There is no problem to arrest them and scrutinize them, but if no evidence is found linking them to Pulwama, please release them. If you want to keep them in house arrest for their protection, please be apparent to the public.

Do not hand them over to anyone. I don't care what pressure West and Indians put on you. You can never placate them. You will just feed the narrative they want.

We created TTP and gave anti-Pakistan governments all the propaganda they needed by arresting thousands of our friends on false charges during Musharraf just to hand to US.

Still Taliban hold no malice to Pakistan, we should be ashamed of all those who suffered in Guantanamo and Bagram like Aafia Siddiqui.

We cannot afford to create more enemies. These groups just make rallies for Kashmir and are incapable of doing anything besides it due to an impregnable border. Kashmir resistance in IOK is fully home-grown.

 

[GumNaam]

Good riddance, almost all of them after hidden pmln patvari types!

 

[Psychic]

These men are innocent.

There is no problem to arrest them and scrutinize them, but if no evidence is found linking them to Pulwama, please release them. If you want to keep them in house arrest for their protection, please be apparent to the public.

Do not hand them over to anyone. I don't care what pressure West and Indians put on you. You can never placate them. You will just feed the narrative they want.

We created TTP and gave anti-Pakistan governments all the propaganda they needed by arresting thousands of our friends on false charges during Musharraf just to hand to US.

Still Taliban hold no malice to Pakistan, we should be ashamed of all those who suffered in Guantanamo and Bagram like Aafia Siddiqui.

We cannot afford to create more enemies. These groups just make rallies for Kashmir and are incapable of doing anything besides it due to an impregnable border. Kashmir resistance in IOK is fully home-grown.

People living under the occupation of foreign forces have a right to resist by armed means.

Attacking enemy combatants through guerrilla tactics to free your own land from occupation is not terrorism.

Our enemies can kill, plunder, rape, blind and maim Kashmiri civilians with impunity, but when a Kashmiri takes revenge and kills a few enemy combatants, the whole world starts crying about "terrorism". They are hypocrites.

These men are innocent.

There is no problem to arrest them and scrutinize them, but if no evidence is found linking them to Pulwama, please release them. If you want to keep them in house arrest for their protection, please be apparent to the public.

Do not hand them over to anyone. I don't care what pressure West and Indians put on you. You can never placate them. You will just feed the narrative they want.

We created TTP and gave anti-Pakistan governments all the propaganda they needed by arresting thousands of our friends on false charges during Musharraf just to hand to US.

Still Taliban hold no malice to Pakistan, we should be ashamed of all those who suffered in Guantanamo and Bagram like Aafia Siddiqui.

We cannot afford to create more enemies. These groups just make rallies for Kashmir and are incapable of doing anything besides it due to an impregnable border. Kashmir resistance in IOK is fully home-grown.

Musharraf handed Kashmir on a platter to the Indians (I won't go into the details) and as a result of his "peace initiatives", the freedom struggle was crushed---and what we got in return for being a "good boy"? Kalbhoshan?