Pakistan Sanctions 88 New Terrorists, Including Dawood Ibrahim

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UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE

The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) put Pakistan on the grey list in June 2018
(An intergovernmental organisation founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.)

After the recent spat with Saudi Arabia, the Gulf nation has pulled away some of the economic package it provided Pakistan in 2018
This included 3 billion USD loan and 3.2 billion Oil Payment relief package

Dawood, Lashkar-e-Toibachief Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar’s operations head and 26/11 accused Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azharfigure in a list of 88 names, published as a Statutory Regulatory Order by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
All designated terrorists on the list will have no direct access to funds, be able to enter or transit through Pakistan, or be able to procure weapons.

In the Pakistan notification, Dawood’s details are provided under serial no. QDi.135 —as in the UNSC list of sanctions —and gives out all his details including his passport numbers, and address in Clifton, Karachi.
The entry is the same as the UNSC list, which has his aliases, residential address in Karachi (Pakistan) and his passport details (he has 9 Indian passports and 5 Pakistan passports). In all 5 Pakistani passports, the entry says “misuse” —indicating that Pakistan has not provided them through official means.

Sources in New Delhi, however, pointed out that this will not mean much since he has not been put on Pakistan’s national terror list —the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA-Schedule IV, Proscribed Persons) List.

The notifications said that leadership of the defunct TTP, and other organisations including Lashkar-e-Taiba, JeM, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Tariq Geedargroup of TTP, HarkatulMujahideen, Al Rasheed Trust, Al Akhtar Trust, Tanzim Jaish-al MohajireenAnsar, Jamaat-ul Ahrar, Tanzim KhutbaImam Bukhari, RabitaTrust Lahore, Revival of Islamic Heritage Society of Pakistan, Al-HaramainFoundation Islamabad, Harkat Jihad Al Islami, IslamiJihad Group, Uzbekistan IslamiTehreek, Daesh of Iraq, Emirates of Tanzim Qafqazworking against Russia, and Abdul Haqof Uyghurs of Islamic Freedom Movement of China have been banned.