JuD and Falah-i-Insaniyat are not banned organizations; foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said that it was bound to take action against organizations that have been banned by the United Nations.
“Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) has been declared a proscribed organisation in Pakistan and will not be allowed to operate. However, the Filah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) has not been banned and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) has been put under observation, but has not been banned,” Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee during briefing.Pakistan had banned LeT in January 2002, following the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. Since then, the militant organization was operating under the banner of JuD and then the FIF.
However, under pressure from the UN, the government placed both JuD and FIF on its watch-list in Dec 2008 and March 2012, respectively.
According to a recent circular issued by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), the ministries of foreign affairs and interior, under the National Action Plan (NAP), have banned all kind of coverage of banned LeT under UN resolution 1267.
Aizaz, Chaudhry, moreover, told the Senate’s foreign affairs committee that dossiers given to the UN and the US by Pakistan about Indian involvement in acts of terror in Pakistan were only part of the narrative and hard evidence has not been provided as yet. He, however, added that that Pakistan is ready for talks with India without pre-conditions.
This year, Aizaz said, Indian troops had committed 246 violations at the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary, which left 39 civilians dead and 130 injured.