Report claims banned outfits get their money-trains back

While we have seen resurgence of banned outfits, a media report claimed that these organizations started opening local and foreign currency accounts to start again their money-trains.

The report stated that it had managed to obtain a list from intelligence agencies of jihadi groups that have been opening new accounts under news names to receive funds from local as well as foreign investors.

Intelligence agencies have been monitoring banned outfits, as blacklisted by the government, the report added.

According to the report, the funds have been traced to some organizations involved in radical activities. They also include groups which appear to work for social welfare. They too were blacklisted duo to their links with extremist groups.

The secret agencies have expressed their fear that following the resumption their fundings, these extremist groups are once again gathering impetus. The reported quoting sources in the interior Ministry said that seven banned groups have been opening accounts in different banks.

The groups include Jaish-e-Mohammad, Tehreek-i-Islami, Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan, Ghazi force, Hizbut Tahrir, Jamiatul Furqan, and Khairunissa International Trust. It also claimed that people linked to these groups were using local and foreign currency accounts.

Reportedly these were the same people who had been helping the banned outfits in receiving and transporting funds in the past.

After reviewing the reports, Federal Interior Ministry has alerted banking circles of federal investigative agencies and related authorities to collect details of such accounts from different banks, especially those with large transactions, and with foreign currencies.

In the latest action, the ministry has frozen accounts of 24 banned groups, including the seven named by intelligence agencies in the leaked report.

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik while speaking in the National Assembly said that he was unable to take actions against the increasing activities of these outfits because of loopholes in law.

He said that federal government could not interfere in the matters, which fell under the administration of the provincial governments.

He requested the house to pass the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NCTA) Bill, which is pending, with the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice for last two years.

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