Barely four days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari sought to thaw the chill that had set in after the Mumbai attacks, India continues to be surprised by Pakistan’s lack of seriousness on the ground.

The latest—Jamaat ud Dawa’s new front Falah-i-Insaniyat has opened an account where money is flowing in, in the name of relief to refugees from Swat and the North-West; just-released JuD chief Hafiz Saeed met Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Sallahuddin on June 16 and renewed the pledge to combat for Kashmir; and the hearing against Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had its second adjournment today until July 4 because a judge has not been appointed to hear the case for nearly a month.

Falah-i-Insaniyat, now widely regarded as the charitable organisation used as a front by the JuD, has opened an account in the Bank of Punjab, Lahore, with the account number 2892-1 and the branch code is 048. Funds in the name of relief work for “Swat displaced persons” is being stashed away into this account. This is quite similar to the pattern when Lashkar-e-Toiba was banned after the attack on Parliament.

At that time JuD emerged as the front, which later on received funds for relief in large amounts under the garb of a charitable organisation doing relief work for those affected by the devastating earthquake in Kashmir. Then, too, it came to light later that the LeT accounts, which were frozen because of the ban, had very nominal amounts in them, indicating large-scale withdrawal before the ban took effect.

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