Asked Pak to hand over Dawood: Shinde

65 terror outfits active in country,34 in Manipur.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde stressed in the Lok Sabha today that the government is trying to get gangster Dawood Ibrahim and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed extradited from Pakistan,intervening in an argument between minister of state R P N Singh and BJP members.

During question hour,Ananth Kumar of the BJP had sought to know what steps the government was taking to secure the extradition of Dawood from Pakistan. Singh responded that the opposition tries to portray the government as being weak on terror and said,I can tell you very clearly that this government has taken all possible steps against terrorism unlike the party in the opposition…

As BJP members sprang on to their feet and started protesting,Shinde rose to reply to Kumar. He said when he had met Pakistans interior minister,he had demanded that Dawood and Saeed be handed over. We had already mentioned that these terrorists are staying… in Pakistan and they have to hand them over, he said,adding he had made the demand at the Interpol conference too.

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Earlier,Singh said the government has identified 65 terror groups as active in the country,34 of these in Manipur. Jammu and Kashmir has five and Punjab three.

Various terrorist groups like LeT,IM,Hizb,HuJI and Al-Badr are active in the hinterland of the country,particularly in Uttar Pradesh,Maharashtra,Gujarat,Karnataka,Kerala,Rajasthan,Andhra Pradesh and Delhi, Singh said. The activities of these groups are broadly categorized into four areas,northeastern states,Jammu and Kashmir,left-wing extremism-affected states and the hinterland of the country.

He added these militants are often supported and funded by their parent outfits based abroad,particularly in Pakistan. The NIA has created a cell for countering terror financing. Under the Prevention of Money laundering Act 2002 (PMLA),banking companies,financial institutions and intermediaries of the securities market submit suspicious transactions reports to financial intelligence units.

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