Islamabad, June 8

Pakistan has failed to take concrete action to keep a lid on banned militant outfits such as Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, which continuously resurface under new names challenging the government’s authority, a media report said today.Under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997, it is the job of the Interior Ministry to determine whether any group is to be banned, but it should also keep tabs on such organisations and prevent them from re-emerging, the report said.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook and Twitter @thetribunechd)However, the ministry has failed to take concrete action to restrain actions of groups beyond adding their name to a central list, the daily said.“The ministry presented a list of banned organisations to the Senate in December 2015 with 61 names on it. That list has not been updated since nor has it been made available to the public,” it said.The daily said one of the organisations which circumvented the government’s restrictions was LeT, led by 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Saeed, which was banned in 2002. “The group and Saeed were able to reinvent themselves under the banner of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and expand their operations into a vast charity network,” the daily said. It said despite being sanctioned by the UN, the government had only kept the outfit on “observation” while its chief “Saeed continued to headline events”. — PTI

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