Lahore: Succumbing to intense international pressure, the Pakistan government on Friday took over the administrative control of the headquarters of Jaish-e-Muhammad, the terror outfit which claimed responsibility for the Pulwama suicide attack. The move came a day after the UN Security Council named JeM in a statement.
The Pakistan government said that it has also appointed an administrator to manage the JeM campus, which includes the sprawling Jama-e-Masjid Subhanallah in Bahawalpur, 400 km from Lahore. The Islamic seminaries on the campus have a faculty of 70; there are at least 600 students studying in these seminaries. The
Punjab police is providing security and protection to the campus, the statement from Pakistan’s interior ministry said. Pakistan on Thursday also banned the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing, the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation.