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This is an archive article published on December 23, 2008

145;Banned146; JuD146;s website still active

Pakistan says it has banned the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the frontal organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba...

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Pakistan says it has banned the Jamaat-ud-Dawa JuD, the frontal organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, following the United Nations Security Council UNSC order on December 11. However, a look at the JuD8217;s English website 8212; it has an Urdu website too 8212; confirms that there have been 14 posts in the last nine days 8212; an indicator that the banned terror outfit8217;s propaganda machinery is still alive.

The posts 8212; very helpfully categorised and even the number of views are indicated 8212; include a poem on 8220;Manmohan Singh and JuD in a dream8221;, a post on the shoe-throwing incident at US President George W Bush in Iraq, another one on the 8220;conspiracy theory of Hindu terror groups behind the Mumbai terror attacks8221; and sundry others on the outfit8217;s philanthropic activities and protest marches against the ban. There are also quotes from Pakistan8217;s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureishi defending the outfit. Some of the posts:

8226; Under the sub-head 8220;JuD and sanctions8221;, titled 8220;Singh and JuD8221;, a poem 8212; 8220;A brief encounter between Manmohan Singh and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in a dream8221; 8212; posted on December 14, with 255 views reads:

8220;Said the Singh to JuD, when he met it in a dream,

Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you,

Come, I8217;ll take no denial; We must have a trial,

For really this morning I8217;ve nothing to do,

Said JuD to the cur; Such a trial, dear sir,

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With no jury or judge; Would be wasting our breath,

I8217;ll be judge, I8217;ll be jury,

Said the cunning old Singh,

I8217;ll try the whole cause, And condemn you to death.8221;

8226; 8220;A few more shoes please for Indian copycats8221;, posted on December 16, with 154 views, says, 8220;President Bush got what he deserved for invading Iraq on false charges, citing an imminent threat from non-existent WMDs, and killing over a million Iraqis shamelessly. Nothing could have been more humiliating for American hubris and arrogance then the shoes thrown at Bush during his farewell visit to Iraq a couple of days ago. All the self-assured conceit of 8216;Mission Accomplished8217; went down the drain with those two shoes flung at the rude and egotistical ruler of the world8217;s 8216;surviving8217; superpower8230; What does this mimic which likes to 8216;ape8217; its guru deserve? A few pairs of shoes for Indian copycats too, please!8221;

8226; 8220;Pakistani leaders decry proposed ban on JuD8221;, posted on December 17, has 138 views. It says, 8220;Pakistan8217;s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that India has as yet to provide us with evidence that Pakistani nationals were involved in the Mumbai attacks. He said Jamaat-ud-Dawa is not involved in the Mumbai events at all. He further said that Jamaat-ud-Dawa8217;s social welfare programmes have not been closed down. He said the fact of the matter is that some Indian politicians want to gain political mileage out of the Mumbai events.8221;

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8226; 8220;India: the unneighbourly neighbour8221;, posted on December 11 with the highest number of views 1,591, says 8220;Atma Ghataki Pathak members carried out the Mumbai suicidal mission to derail Karkare investigations into the Army-terrorist nexus8221;. Quoting from Daily Mail8217;s latest findings, it says, the 8220;saffron terrorist groups belonging to Sangh Parivar were behind the recent Mumbai carnage and several suicidal attacks and assassinations in Pakistan and India8221;.

8226; 8220;Hindus rally for Muslim charity8221;, posted on December 17, has 623 views. This quotes a BBC report which says that 8220;hundreds of members of Pakistan8217;s Hindu community have turned out to protest on behalf of a Muslim charity accused by India over the deadly Mumbai attacks. The protestors in the city of Hyderabad in Sindh province complained that Jamaat-ud-Dawa was not a terrorist organisation and should not be banned.8221;

8226; 8220;The UNSC should pass judgment based on facts, not propaganda,8221; posted on December 11, has had 614 views and gives an account of JuD chief Hafiz Sayeed8217;s 8220;hurriedly-called press conference8221; after the ban.

8226; Another post on December 11, 8220;Hafiz Sayeed put on house arrest8221;, has been viewed 574 times.

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8226; 8220;Women and children protest JuD ban in Karachi8221;, posted on December 17 with 215 views, says: 8220;Scores of women and children protested the government8217;s ban on JuD in front of the Karachi Press Club yesterday, and said this ban will result in extinguishing the flame in countless kitchen stoves around the country. The BBC reported that protesting women and children were also carrying banners with slogans decrying the government8217;s ban on JuD8221;.

8226; 8220;Why does Markaz-e-Taiba appear to be open still?8221;, posted on December 15 has been viewed 215 times. Denying that the JuD8217;s educational-cum-residential complex in Muridke was still functioning, it says the boys8217; and girls8217; schools in Muridke which operate in accordance with the academic syllabus of Punjab Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, had already been closed for Eid and winter vacations prior to the ban. The JuD spokesman further says the administration of the Muridke educational and residential complex had sold some extra land in and around the complex to private persons at various times in the past. He said such land was private property and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa has absolutely no association with persons living on it.

8226; 8220;Who will suffer from JuD8217;s closure?8221;, posted on December 15 with 759 views, waxes eloquent about its welfare activities and beneficiaries 8212; 8220;those thousands of survivors of the devastating 2005 and 2008 earthquakes8221;, 8220;thousands of people of flood affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan8221;, about 8220;6,000 poor people who receive medical treatment and medicines8221;, 8220;thousands of patients who benefit from modern, fully equipped ambulances8221;, about 5,000 poor and orphan children, et al.

 

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