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Posts Tagged ‘Jama’at-ud-Da’wah’

Profile of Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq

By Rauf Amir • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Worth A Second Look

Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, the 65-year-old Saudi Arabia-based chief financier of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), was in touch with underworld gangster and designated global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.Bahaziq, also known as Abu Abd al-Aziz, approached Dawood in the late ’90s to fund the LeT. Sources in the Intelligence Bureau said Dawood acceded to Bahaziq’s demands and also [...]



Pakistan’s Ban on Jamaat ud Dawa : A Timely Step

By Gul Raiz • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

After the Mumbai attacks, may be India tried to leverage the situation and put pressure on Pakistan, but the matter of the fact is that this is the golden chance for Pakistan to clear the country off the militancy. We have already seen the fire, blood and bloody ricochet of such non-sense strategy of cultivating [...]



Profile of Jamat ud Dawa

By Rohail Butt • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Jama’at-ud-Da’wah is a movement that aims to spread the true teachings of Islam, and to establish a pure and peaceful society by building the character of individuals according to those teachings.  It is necessary to improve not only the belief of an individual but also his or her deeds and actions, only then an individual [...]