Pak ban on JuD, Haqqani network? No confirmation, says US

January 23, 2015 09:59

The US today said it has no confirmation on Pakistan's banning of Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the dreaded Haqqani Network, even as it recognised that the country was in the process of implementing measures to thwart violent extremism.

"We recognise that Pakistan is working through the process of implementing measures to thwart violent extremism,including the national action plan. We don't have any confirmation of specific steps," State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters when asked about the reported ban on the two terror outfits.

Facing intense international pressure, Pakistan has banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the dreaded Haqqani Network along with other terror outfits and also slapped foreign travel restrictions on the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind.

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