ISLAMABAD: The country’s intelligence agencies came under the radar in the Senate on Wednesday for allegedly continuing their policy of backing some militant outfits, according to local media sources.
Senators from the PPP and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) accused the security establishment of taking action against banned outfits in the country on the basis of preference, it was revealed.
The mover of the motion, PPP’s Farhatullah Babar said permitting banned outfits to reinvent themselves under different names as charity organisations undermined the state’s credibility in fighting militancy, reportedly.
Mr Babar said that in a reply to a question on July 7 the government had admitted that Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) was a reincarnation of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and that it had been allowed to function because of a court order, sources further added.
He added that the government had failed to provide a copy of the court judgment despite the Senate chairman’s orders and the minister’s promise to do so by the next day.
