LAHORE – Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), a banned religious outfit, offered condolences over the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and has offered to help the Japanese government in rehabilitation of victims. In a letter written to the Japanese prime minister, JUD Ameer Hafiz Saeed reiterated that JUD was a welfare organization and had enough experience to tackle floods and calamities.
He wrote, “We showed this skill inside and outside our country. With such an experienced background, we are rendering our services for the people of Japan in such a testing time.”
Saeed wrote that his party had served its countrymen in Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwah, while collaborating with UNO after the earthquake in 2005. He assured the Japanese premier that JUD and the entire Pakistani nation stood by the people of Japan.
