International relief agencies route via terrorists’ outfits in Kashmir

WHO, UNICEF, the UN Organisation for Refugees, Red Cross, World Food Programme etc. are also routing their aids for the earthquake victims in Kashmir via terrorists’ outfits. One of such outfit is the Jamaat-ul-Dawa, linked with the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba. It was founded by mercurial Hafeez Sayeed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks when he had to dissolve the Markaz Dawa, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) parent outfit. The Jamaat-ul-Dawa, is ,however, on the watch list. Pakistan President General Parvez Musharraf had told the CNN, a few days earlier, that no banned outfit would be permitted to carry out relief work but there were no curbs imposed on those on the watch list. But he acknowledged to The Financial Times (London) recently that while groups such as the Jamaat had stepped into an administrative vacuum in relief work he would make sure that they did not draw people towards extremism (read terrorism).