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China wants Pakistan to relocate Hafiz Saeed to a West Asian country
News:
- 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
- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi meet on the sidelines of the Boao Forum in China last month.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- During Paris summit of FATF, Indonesia raised the issue of involvement of JuD in money laundering.
- 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.
- A Presidential Ordinance was issued to freeze all assets of Hafiz Saeed, linked to the JuD and its charity arm, Falah-i-Insaaniyat Foundation.
- 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.
- It is alleged that federal government deliberately frame a weak case against Hafez Saeed.
- 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.
