China wants Pakistan to relocate Hafiz Saeed to a West Asian country

China wants Pakistan to relocate Hafiz Saeed to a West Asian country

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1. China has asked Pakistan to relocate Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed to a West Asian country in response to mounting international pressure to act against him for his links with terror groups.

Important Facts

2. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi meet on the sidelines of the Boao Forum in China last month.
3. Relocation is expected to be referred to the next government as the Prime Minister of Pakistan is going to leave office on May 31 after completion of his tenure.
4. Hafez Saeed has been declared a global terrorist by the United Nations, the U.S. and India, carries a reward of $5 million on his head for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
5. The JuD has a network of over 150 ambulances, six hospitals, 60 schools and scores of madrassas across Punjab and the Pakistan-administered Kashmir and northern areas.
6. During Paris summit of FATF, Indonesia raised the issue of involvement of JuD in money laundering.
7. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) put JuD on the list of banned organisations. It also put Pakistan on the grey list for its failure to prevent terror financing.
8. A Presidential Ordinance was issued to freeze all assets of Hafiz Saeed, linked to the JuD and its charity arm, Falah-i-Insaaniyat Foundation.
9. Pakistani authorities put him under house arrest for almost nine months but were forced to release him on the orders of the Lahore High Court.
10. It is alleged that federal government deliberately frame a weak case against Hafez Saeed.
11. Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan issued a circular to all companies barring them from donating money to those entities put on the UNSC sanctioned list. The government also tabled a Bill to formalise the ban on the JuD but it has not been passed so far.