Pak govt occupies Lashkar front’s home in Muridke

Babar will supervise and monitor all activities at the JuD’s headquarters,Dawn News channel reported. Babar,his eight-member staff and about a dozen policemen will be housed in the Markaz-e-Toiba complex that includes a school,a college and a hospital.

A spokesman for the Markaz-e-Toiba described the appointment of the administrator as a “takeover” done under international pressure.

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik had said the JuD was banned shortly after the UN Security Council declared it a front for the LeT in December last year.

But diplomatic sources told PTI that the Pakistan government had not yet issued any formal notification banning the group. JuD chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and several other top leaders of the group are currently under house arrest. Their detention was recently extended for two more months.

There have been reports that Saeed and other JuD leaders were allowed to move out of their homes on several occasions. The government has claimed that a total of 124 members of the JuD and other banned extremist groups have been detained while dozens of JuD offices have been sealed across the country. But the government has said it can take legal action against the JuD leaders only if India provides proof of their involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks.

Ajmal Amir Kasab,the terrorist captured during the Mumbai strikes,had revealed that he and nine other attackers,who were killed by Indian security forces,had received training at the LeT camps in Pakistan.