Tribune News Service/PTI,Jammu/ Islamabad, Dec 18

The Pakistan government today named two terrorist organisations, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), working in Jammu and Kashmir, as banned outfits among 59 other organisations.However, Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawah is not among the list of 61 banned outfits but is “under observation”, the country’s Interior Ministry told Parliament today.State Minister for Interior Balighur Rehman presented a list of 61 banned militant, sectarian and extremist outfits in the country before the Senate, the Upper House. “Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) is not included in the list of banned groups as it is under observation,” he said.The list of banned organisations includes groups like the Islamic State, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Muhammed Pakistan and Sipah-e-Sahaba. It also includes Baloch separatist groups like Balochistan Republican Army and Lashkar Balochistan.The minister said the banned organisations are watched to prevent them from resurfacing under different names and the provinces have been asked not to allow banned outfits to come up. Both LeT and JeM are active in Jammu and Kashmir for past many years and despite facing ban for doing activities in Pakistan, these terrorist organisations are working in J&K. Both these organisations have been involved in terror activities in J&K and rest of India like 26/11 Mumbai attack, which was carried by LeT and they continue to get support from across the border. India has been continuously pushing for action against these banned groups who are using Pakistan’s territory to attack India. Many a times, India has given proof of camps being run by these organisations in PoK and are sending terrorists inside India, but no action has been taken so far.