Pakistan group founder slams UN sanctions, India vows tougher action

Güncelleme Tarihi: Aralık 11, 2008 12:48

Hurriyet DN Online with wires

Oluşturulma Tarihi: Aralık 11, 2008 12:10

The founder of the banned Islamist group India blames for the Mumbai attacks on Thursday condemned a move by the U.N. Security Council to list his charity as a terrorist organization.

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Hafiz Saeed, who publicly disowned the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba after it was outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, said the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa was a legitimate organization with no links to terrorism.

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His comments came after the Security Council on Wednesday listed Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a front for LeT, the group India says was behind the devastating siege on its financial capital.

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"The Security Council took this decision without giving any us any opportunity to respond," said Hafiz Saeed, who was also personally named by the Councils sanctions committee,was quoted by AFP as saying.

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"We are not prepared to accept this decision, which was taken in haste. We do not accept terrorism, killing innocent people, or carrying out suicide attacks. This has always been our stand."

Pakistan’s government has not yet responded to the U.N. move to list Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a terrorist organization and order sanctions against four people it said were LeT members, including Saeed.

The decision means that the four will be subject to U.N. sanctions including an asset freeze and travel ban.

It came after Pakistani troops on Sunday raided a camp operated by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, arresting 15 people as part of a crackdown on militant organizations launched under intense international pressure.

INDIA TO GET TOUGH ON TERROR

More spies and police, modern gadgets and a national investigation agency are among a slew of measures India is taking to prevent militant attacks like the one on Mumbai last month, the home minister said on Thursday.

The move comes after criticism that the government was not doing enough to prevent attacks, such as the one on India's financial capital that killed 179 people, because there were vast gaps in its intelligence and security apparatus.

"I have found that there is a tendency to treat some intelligence inputs that are not specific or precise as not actionable intelligence," Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told India's parliament in a statement about the Mumbai attack.

Highlighting poor security coordination, Indian newspapers have reported that one suspected supporter of the Mumbai attackers who was arrested in Kolkata was in fact an undercover officer trying to infiltrate Kashmiri militant groups.

Strike in India happen with such regularity that the country has been called one of the most dangerous places in the world with some 400 people killed in about a dozen militant strikes this year.

Bombing investigations too have followed a predictable drill: bombs go off, police round up suspects, usually Muslims, and then the trail goes cold.

A flurry of anti-terrorism measures, critics and opposition parties say, has come to be the government's standard knee-jerk response to any terror attack.

Chidambaram has however vowed to take steps including the creation of a Coastal Command to secure India's 7,500 km (4,650 miles) shoreline, fill vacancies in intelligence agencies, upgrade technology, raise new commando units and build counter-insurgency and terrorism schools.

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He also proposed strengthening laws relating to prevention, investigation and punishment of terrorist acts.

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Pakistan group founder slams UN sanctions, India vows tougher action

The founder of the banned Islamist group India blames for the Mumbai attacks on Thursday condemned a move by the U.N. Security Council to list his charity as a terrorist organization.

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