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Stop JuD from revival: Mukherjee
In the backdrop of unconfirmed reports that Jamaat-ud-Dawa is preparing to act under a new name, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday that it was Islamabad’s responsibility to stop functioning of banned terrorist organisations and prevent new terror apparatus to crop up on its soil.
“It is the responsibility of Pakistan government to stop activities of these banned organisations in any form, in any name, in any shape,” he said.
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Mukherjee said that if Pakistan did not comply with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) ban, it was for the international community to step in and remind Pakistan of its international obligations. Appropriate action should be taken against Pakistan in case it fails to book perpetrators of Mumbai terror strike and dismantle terror apparatus there, he added.
“When Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was banned, it came up as Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD). Now it has been banned. It (JuD) might have taken another name. This is the pattern we have noticed in Pakistan," External Affairs Minister told reporters here.
Mukherjee's comments came a day after Indian intelligence agencies received reports suggesting that the JuD had morphed into a new organisation to defy the UNSC ban and could now be functioning under the name of Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool (Movement to Defend the Prophet) in Pakistan.
The move is similar to those in 2002 when LeT, suspected of orchestrated the Mumbai massacre, revived itself under a new name JuD to defy the ban UN put on it.
Official sources said that despite UN ban, JuD is continuously indulged in running its Urdu website and its key operatives are at large, and now as per reports suggesting JuD attempting to revive under a new banner shows how Pakistan is serious about combating terror.
Referring to several international conventions on combating terror, to which Pakistan is also a party, including the SAARC Convention against terrorism of 1987 and the special protocol of 2004 of SAARC countries besides UN Security Council resolution after the Mumbai mayhem that had called for action against the JuD and Lashkar and its several leaders, Mukherjee said if Pakistan continued to prevaricate on taking apt action against the banned organisations it was for the international community to “take appropriate action”.
Pointing out Islamabad’s failure to crack down on militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks, the Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters on Friday: “I don’t think there is any noticeable change in the attitude of Pakistan. Statements are not important, actions are important. They have to prove by their actions.”
Earlier on Friday, two days after The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times separately reported that Zarar Shah, the LeTs communications chief, had admitted the group of ten people that went from Karachi to Mumabi was involved in the Mumbai carnage between Nov 26-29 attacks, Pakistan denied, though not at the highest level, the confession of Zarar Shah of involvement in the Mumbai strikes.