Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said his government will push ahead with plans to seize control of charities run by Hafiz Saeed.
Under pressure from the U.S. and international institutions to crack down on terrorist financing, Pakistan last month drew up secret plans for a “takeover” of the charities linked to Saeed, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation.
“Yes, the government will take over the charities which are sanctioned and not allowed to operate,” Mr. Abbasi, 59, told Reuters in an interview at the Prime Minister's chamber in Pakistan’s Parliament in capital Islamabad. “Everybody is on board, everybody is on the same page, everybody is committed to implementation of U.N. sanctions,” he said. He, however, declined to set a deadline.
He said Pakistan had made progress in curbing terrorist financing after meetings with the Financial Action Task Force.
