Jama'at-ud-Da'wah

The Jamaat ud Dawa Pakistan ( Urdu جماعة الدعوہ پاکستان ), literally, " the congregation of the Da'wah Pakistan " (also Jama'at ud- Da'wah ) is a (Pakistan ) organization founded in 2002 in Lahore.

Hafiz Mohammad Said founded Jamaat ud- Dawa as a successor organization of which he founded Lashkar- e-Taiba, after they had been banned as a terrorist organization. Jamaat ud Dawa, one of the largest aid agencies of Pakistan, funded by donations from the members and collections. The organization with its headquarters in Muridke involved in the cultural sector through the operation of a university as well as boarding schools, hospitals and social institutions. Also in the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan provided the organization helper. Furthermore, it maintains madrasas.

After the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, which resulted in speculation arose that the Jamaat ud- Dawa could closely related to the perpetrators, the Pakistani government has taken measures such as house arrest Hafiz Mohammad Said and eight other senior staff and the arrest of more than 40 employees of the organization and about 150 supporters. In addition, 72 offices and four hospitals of Jamaat ud Dawa were closed and frozen assets of the organization. The United Nations declared the Jamaat ud Dawa as a terrorist organization. Then, demonstrated on 12 December 2008 hundreds of people before the UN office in Kashmir against the crackdown on Jamaat -ud- Dawa, which also slogans against the U.S. and India were called. In Mumbai, around 100,000 people formed a human chain that linked the most important places of the end of November attacks carried out together. To the action about 200 groups under the motto had called " Mumbai for Peace". The Pakistani government placed the headquarters of Jamaat ud Dawa in Muridke under state supervision. The spokesman of Jamaat -ud- Dawa, Shahid, said that the organization had completed all connections to violent groups: "There is absolutely no connection to Lashkar [- e-Taiba ]. We are a purely humanitarian charity. "

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  • Islamist organization
  • Founded in 2002
  • Organization ( Pakistan)
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