B’DESH CANCELS DOWNLINK PERMISSION OF PEACE TV

Scathing report indicates Pakistani links to recent Ramzan terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, with LeT’s FIF as the source.In a scathing editorial written by the European Parliament’s vice-president, Ryszard Czarneck, titled ‘Wake up call to Anti-terrorism Ayatollahs’, Pakistani links to the recent Ramzan terror attacks in Saudi Arabia have signaled the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s “humanitarian” NGO Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) as being the source of attacks on Medina.Czarneck mentions in his article that ever since ISIS’s exponential proliferation in the Middle East, the activities of Pakistan-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its sister concern FIF have picked up. Both were earlier dismissed as being primarily focused on India. But, recent terror attacks in Medina have changed that opinion. “The arrest of 12 Pakistanis for the suicide attacks in Medina, Jeddah and Qatif, has made even Saudis sit up and take note. One of the arrested ring leaders is Abdullah Qalzar Khan (34), a driver and aresident of Jeddah for over a decade. His arrest shows FIF’s quiet ways of radicalisation of the Pakistani diaspora, to pump prime the LeT’s campaign for a new Islamist world order based on Sharia,” writes Czarneck.The FIF is a ‘charitable’ organisation started by the perpetrator of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Hafiz Saeed. Czarneck writes that the FIF in its operations doubles up as a recruitment agency for affected, radicalised youth. Whilst distributing blankets in Syria, distributing knick-knacks during prayer time in Gaza or distributing relief material during the Nepal earthquake, organisations like LeT soon follow their FIF comrades into an indoctrination/recruitment campaign. Terror organisations are working overtime in recruitment and are ‘a threat that needs to be tackled head on’, wrote the European Parliament VP.DHAKA Bangladesh on Monday cancelled downlink permission for Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s Peace TV, a day after it banned the channel over reports that his “provocative” speeches encouraged militants to unleash the worst terror attack in the nation. The information ministry issued the order cancelling the permission mandatory for television broadcast in the country, with copies sent to the home ministry, press information department, state-run BTV and cable operators association. The action came a day after the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order decided to ban Naik’s channel. The doctor-turned-televangelist is facing heat after it emerged that his speeches goaded some militants who stormed the upmarket cafe in Dhaka on July 1 and brutally hacked to death 22.