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Jamaat’s website is alive and kicking

The UNSC might have declared it a terrorist outfit and imposed sanctions on it, but the Jamaat-ud-Dawah is alive and kicking — at least on the internet. Tushar Srivastava reports.

Updated on: Dec 17, 2008 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By , New Delhi
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The United Nations Security Council might have declared it a terrorist outfit and imposed sanctions on it, but the Jamaat-ud-Dawah is alive and kicking — at least on the internet.

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Jamaat’s website, www.jamatdawah.org, is being updated daily with new articles, news and views. This, Indian agencies say, is another example of how the UNSC ban exists only on paper while the terror outfit continues to function without any restrictions in Pakistan.

The website carries a news report in the “News and Views” section dated December 16 regarding protests in Karachi against the ban on the Jamaat. The article says “scores of women and children protested the government’s ban on Jammat in front of the Karachi Press Club on Monday, and said this ban will result in extinguishing the flame in countless kitchen stoves around the country”.

An article dated December 14 is titled, “A Brief Encounter between Manmohan Singh and Jama’t-ud-Da’wah (JD) in a Dream”.

New Delhi believes that Jamaat is a front organisation for the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, which it holds responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

 
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Tushar Srivastava

Tushar was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. He no longer works with the Hindustan Times.

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