Pakistan freezes bank accounts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Islamabad, Jan 22: In an apparent move towards swift implementation of anti-terror acts, Pakistan Thursday froze the bank accounts of now banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), and restricted its leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed from foreign travel. "Pakistan took this decision under the UN obligation and not under pressure from any other quarter, including John Kerry," Pakistan foreign spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in a briefing at the foreign ministry office here, Dawn reported. Aslam said assets of all banned organisations in the country have been frozen and that the country was taking action against terrorists without discrimination. The US and India both have always considered the JuD -- run by Hafiz Saeed and a sister organisation of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba -- as a militant outfit blamed for masterminding the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai.