Pakistani Charities Added to U.S. Terror List
May 2, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Last Friday, the State Department listed two Pakistani charities as terrorist organizations, but Pakistan said it has no plans to take action against the groups, reports Reuters.
Assets held in the United States by the two charities, Jamaat ud-Dawa and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq, will be frozen. The State Department says the two groups funnel money to Lashkar-e-Taiba, an extremist Islamic group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
A spokeswoman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that the country follows the U.N. Security Council’s classification of terrorist-related groups, not the United States list. Representatives of the charities were not quoted in the article.
