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Banned groups with new names not to be spared under Pak law

PTI | By, Islamabad
Oct 03, 2009 04:46 PM IST

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has amended an anti-terror law allowing authorities to act against members of outlawed groups that set up new outfits with different names, a move which may have ramifications for LeT whose founder Hafiz Saeed floated JuD after it was banned.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has amended an anti-terror law allowing authorities to act against members of outlawed groups that set up new outfits with different names, a move which may have ramifications for LeT whose founder Hafiz Saeed floated JuD after it was banned.

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An ordinance promulgated yesterday by Zardari to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 stated that if "office bearers, activists or associates of a proscribed organisation form a new organisation under a different name, upon suspicion about their involvement in similar activities, the said organisation shall also be deemed to be a proscribed organisation."

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The government may then "issue a formal notification" about the proscription of the new group formed by members of a banned organisation, it said.

Soon after the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was banned in Pakistan in the wake of the 2001 attack on Indian Parliament, its founder Saeed floated the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), describing it as a charitable organisation.

The UN Security Council declared the JuD a front for the LeT after last year's Mumbai terror attacks and imposed restrictions on Saeed.

The Pakistan government has said on several occasions that the JuD has been banned, though no formal written notification has been issued in this regard.

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