Click to play videoNew Delhi: The United Nations Security Council's al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee has banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and its front organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
Lashkar, which is accused of masterminding Mumbai terror attack and many other terror strikes across India, is headquartered at Murdike near Lahore.
It is the terrorist wing of Markaz-e-Dawat-ul-Irshad, which is a network of 2,200 madrasas across Pakistan and backs Taliban's plan for complete Islamisation of Pakistan and Kashmir.
The Markaz was renamed as Jamaat-ud-Dawa after the United States included LeT in its list of terrorist organizations in 2002.
But the terror outfit reinvented itself as a relief and charity organisation. Using this front Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI helped the outfit to expand its terror network and modules in India.
So what prevents the Lashkar from regrouping once again in a different name? The Indian government is sceptical if the ban will serve much purpose.
"They are changing the names, they are changing the signboards. (The) faces are the same, ideologies are the same. This morning I have been told that Security Council has declared as banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa. And four persons that we have demanded to be handed over have also been proscribed," Pranab Mukherjee told Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The Security Council also added four terrorist leaders of Pakistan-based LeT to a list of people facing sanctions for ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
These include Lashkar chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is a former professor of engineering who has directed terrorism operations in India. The others in the list are Zakiur-Rehman Lakhvi, chief of operations of LeT, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, chief of finance of LeT and Bahaziq Mahmoud, alias, Abu Abdul Aziz, financier of LeT.
By banning the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and proscribing LeT's terrorist leaders the Security Council has limited the terror outfit's ability to travel, acquire weapons, plan, carry out, or raise funds.
Besides, this move has given global approval to India's position that the LeT carried out the Mumbai 26/11 terror strike.
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