Trump pressure at work? Pak arrests Hafiz Saeed
- US had declared Jamaat-ud-Dawa, headed by Hafiz Saaed, as a terrorist organisation back in 2014 when Barrack obama was in power.
- Pakistan's Ministry of Interior ordered sanctions against Falah-E-Insaniyat Foundation and Jamaat-ud-Dawa on January 27.
FollowPakistan authorities have put Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed under house arrest for six months. Rumours suggest that US threatened sanctions against Pakistan if action was not taken against Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is also headed by Saeed.
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It is a fact that Saeed has been roaming free in Pakistan despite India producing proof that Saeed had direct links with the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
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Pakistan's Ministry of Interior ordered sanctions against Falah-E-Insaniyat Foundation and Jamaat-ud-Dawa on January 27. Saeed has currently been detained along with four others - Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz, in a house in Faisal Town.
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The action was taken days after Donald Trump came in power in the US as the 45th President. He already had said during his first speech that the US will be taking strict action on Islamic terror.
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Trump’s recent ban on seven nations - Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen has already been facing outrage. He has not ruled out the chances of including Pakistan to that list as well in the future.
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However, he has mentioned that this is not Muslim ban. But this is to keep his country safe from terror.
