- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
A Pakistani judge has accepted a case against an Islamic charity, widely seen as a front organisation for a banned anti-India militant group, that has been accused of running unauthorised sharia courts in the eastern city of Lahore. The charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), is listed as a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States. Western officials regard it as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the militant group that carried out the attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008. The case against JuD was brought by a Pakistani real estate agent, Khalid Saeed, who says the charity had summoned him…
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