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Pakistani PM says UN sanctions to be implemented

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Dec 12, IRNA
Pakistan-UN Curbs
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan will implement sanctions imposed on Pakistani groups and individuals by the United Nations for their links with al-Qaeda and Taliban.

The Security Council added three Pakistani entities and three of its nationals to the list of people facing sanctions for links with al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The leaders belong to the militant `Lashkar-e-Taiba' group which has been blamed for the last month Mumbai attacks, which killed nearly 180 people and injured over 300 others.

The Security Council panel also said that the charity Jamaat-ud- Daawa was a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba and subject to sanctions.

The three leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba who have been added to the list by the panel are: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, whom the UN names as the group's leader, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, described as Lashkar's chief of operations, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, its finance chief.

Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a Saudi national, described as a financier for the group, was also added to the list.

The four-face an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.

Prime Minister Gilani said that Pakistan will implement has taken note of the designation of certain individuals and entities by the UN under 1267 resolution of the UN Security Council and would fulfill its international obligations.

The Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to the US Deputy Secretary of State, John D. Negroponte, who called on him here at the PM's House on Thursday, an official statement said.

The Prime Minister, while reiterating his government's keen desire to have cordial neighbourly relations with India, briefed the Deputy Secretary of State about Pakistan's efforts to defuse the situation in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks.

He said that Pakistan, with the view of offering its sincere cooperation in investigation of the unfortunate Mumbai incidents, had proposed the formation of joint investigation commission.

Negroponte, who would be visiting India tomorrow, assured the Prime Minister of his country's full support to Pakistan for defusing the situation and promised that he would convey the sentiments of Pakistan's leadership for cooperating with India to bring the perpetrators of heinous crimes in Mumbai, to justice, to their Indian counterparts, the statement said.