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Pakistan's outlawed charity rejects UN sanctions

Other News Materials 11 December 2008 14:45 (UTC +04:00)

A Pakistan-based charity denounced on Thursday sanctions by the United Nations Security Council levelled against it for being a front group for the terrorist organization accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks, reported dpa.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) was included in a list of entities subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo by the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee on Wednesday.

The organization is widely believed to be a new front for the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), which Indian authorities said masterminded the November 26 Mumbai siege that killed more than 170 people.

JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday that the UN decision was based on ill will.

"The haste in which the decision has been made ... shows that it was not based on (the principles of) rights and justice," Saeed said as his press conference that went out live on almost all local television channels.

The UN panel had also declared the suspected militant leader along with three other persons were terrorists.

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