Experts welcome UN ban on Jamaat-ul-Dawa; put doubts on Pak

NEW DELHI: The United Nations' decision to ban Jamaat-ul-Dawa, (JuD) the front organisation of Lashker-e-Taiba, has been welcomed by security experts but they feel that its translation in letter and spirit by Pakistan is still under a cloud.

"It is a welcome move to the extent that the committee of nations understand the gravity of the threat and feel the need for a collective response," says former Intelligence Bureau Director Ajit Doval.

The experts feel that the move will have little impact on JuD's importance as a terror group within Pakistan unless authorities, in the calculus of grit, find the consequences of siding with terrorists are far more dangerous than the advantage of eliciting their support.

"It's a positive move," says former Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Gopal Sharma.

"One needs to understand that Jamaat-ul-Dawa is mother organisation of Lashker-e-Taiba. It's literature spewing venom against India and promoting communal hatred was recovered in Kashmir way back in 1990," Sharma, who retired recently as Director General of Seema Sashtra Bal, said.

"They (Jamaat-ul-Dawa) had circulated pamphlets in Kashmir that they would target people here and convert it (Kashmir) into another Chechnya," Sharma said.