An organisation established by Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafeez Muhammad Sayeed has set up a mobile operation theatre on Pakistan’s side of the Wagah border to treat passengers injured in the blasts on the Samjhauta Express returning home.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has also kept 15 ambulances ready to ferry the injured, media reports said. The organisation has been banned by the US and kept under watch by the Pakistan Interior Ministry for its alleged links with Lashkar. However, Pakistan has declined to ban the JuD saying that it would not take action unless the group is listed by the UNSC’s Sanctions Committee.

The News quoted Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam as saying that the JuD is on the US foreign terrorist organisation’s list but not on the UN’s. The paper also reported that US efforts to place the organisation on the Sanction Committee’s list of terrorists have so far failed as “Pakistan’s time-tested friend China” put the request on technical hold, demanding substantial evidence.

The organisation’s founder, Sayeed, regularly addresses congregations in Lahore denouncing President Pervez Musharraf’s policies of moderation as well as the Indo-Pak peace process. While he was detained last year, he was released after a few months.

The JuD had acquired prominence doing relief work in the earthquake-affected areas of PoK.