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Pakistan Says It Has Banned Mumbai Attack Perpetrator Hafiz Saeed-Led Group

Pakistan banned the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation.

File Photo: Security forces personnel watching as a fire rages in the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
File Photo: Security forces personnel watching as a fire rages in the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)

Pakistan banned the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation.

The decision to ban these groups was taken during a meeting of the National Security Committee held at the Prime Minister’s Office, a spokesman of the Interior Ministry said.

“It was decided during the meeting to accelerate action against proscribed organisations,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

“It was further decided that Jamat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation be notified as proscribed organisations by the Ministry of Interior,” he said.

Earlier, the two outfits were kept on the watchlist of the Interior Ministry.

The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, reviewed the National Action Plan against terrorism in detail. Services chiefs and key ministers were in attendance.

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